Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-02-13
A CONTESTED WILL.
MRS. Green's D-fsappearRnSe AIakes
Trouble for Severn Exceslent
People.
The second Circuit and Criminal
Courts Taking the Matter hl
Aand.

The melancholy and unsecountable dis
appearance of Mrs. Green some weeks
ago, has proved q circumstance frsught
with u TO many. By the desth of
her second husband, Mr.. Green, partner
IN the firm Of Steele 81 Co, corner of
Front n Poplar, she was made sole owner
OF bis property. After her mysttrious
disappearance from The house OF the
brewer, NeYill at Fort Pickering, Ill was
brought 70 light, in which Mrs, Addie H
Moore Is named the devisee OF the missing
lady by which she becomes the pIospec-
tive owner OF personal property valued
at two thousand dollars Her brother,
Mr. W. q. Bailey, of Altoona, Pennsyl-
VantaI arrived in the city a few dSys sgo
and got out letters of administration IN
Judge Rays court. On application OF Mrs.
MoOre's counsel The letters were revoked
on Friday last and another administrator
is TO be appointed to morrow. On Satnr-
day Mrs. Moore, Mr.. Moore and G.. B.
Norris, swore to the will in the probate
court. About h same time tho grand
jury of b criminal court found 8 bill of
Indictment against h. G. Moore for
forgery, and against c. B. Norris for
perjury, and both were put under bonds
Of six thousand dollars each. Mrs.
Green had boarded at Moore's house a
month previous to the death of her last
husband, and was in an apparently low
state OF health. She was up in PennHyl-
vania at her brothers house for the bene-
1T of her health previously, and had 70.
turned much improved. She was troubled
in her mind about some fsncied complaint
OF which she was the victim, and hardly
ever spoke or wrote In q cheerful strain.
The circumstances of her disspp5aran CO
were thus detailed in the APPEAL OF the
second of January, six days after she left
MoOre's house:
on Thursday last the gentleman, CMr.
Nevtls), who keeps and runs a brewery in
Fort Pickering, saw a Well-dressed lady sit
ting on tie bank of the river, with her feet
hanging In the water. He was puzzled 10
think she was doing there, and why she
was alone in SO out-of-the-way a place. h
was well-dressed, young and gOOdlOOking.
She sat there all the evening, and her form
was still sharply defined against the western
sky when the sun went down. At morning
dawn she was Sill there. The honest brewer
went to her on Friday and induced her to 20
with him to mis- house. She appeared well
educated, between twenty-thFee and twenty
nVe years OF age, and oOnVerSed very gem
teelly. BE took care of her as we'll as he could,
but that night she attempted to get out OF the
window, and would have succeeded had not
the window fell upon her and caught her. 1t
took considerable watching to keep her quiet
until Saturday night. The family thought
that she was cOntented and would not make
another attempt TO escape, but in this they
were mistaken, for she made her escape out OF
the window on Saturday night, and has not
bean seen since. The brewer semi fCr Cantein
Grey and explained the whole thing TO him.
Nothing could be found OF her; she left no
tracks behind, and no one knew whence she
or whittier she went. It is thought that
she committed suicide by drowning. The old
man was asleep in mis- easy chair al the time,
and did not hear her make her exit. She LEFT
all her clothing except her ntght-dr9ss behind
her.
IL has since TRANSFERRED that a person an
swering the description was seen on
Charleston avenue, Sunday morning, the
8lss Of December, who inquired of a negro
woman Where Is Memphis 4" Whether it
was b same person VINO left Nevils is
not known. The next day the following
account of the affair appeared in the AVA
A MYSrERY-USACCOUNTABLE DISAPPEAR i
ANCE-sUsPICIOH OF DROWNING.
Last Thursday morning Mrs. NJ. A. Greene, |
who had been stopping for several weeks at
The residence Of Mr.. ii. G.. Moore, on the cor
1er OF Thornton avenue and Alabama street, 1
10 Mrs. Moore that she was going
lut calling. Mrs. Greene had been in i'll health
iince the death OF her husband, which oc-
'urred lastIhanksgtytng day, ana before start
ng Mrs. Moore asked her how long would she
De gone? She replied mot long," and passed
Nothing was said as to where she was
her friends suppostng that she was in
ending to visit some acquaintance on Carroll
venue. Not returning by evening, Mr.. and
hrs. Moore became alarmed as TO her safety,
md the gentleman started in quest OF her. |
5Oing TO Carroll venue, he found that
he had not been there during the
lay, and from there he visited other
of the lady. not a thing
,ould be heard Of her, and from that time
Until yesterday morning they have diligently
earched for her, without success, however, as
10 t1d1ngs could be found. Yesterday morn
ng they saw a paragraph stating hat some
lothtng belonging to a lady had been found
N the river bank in Fort Pickering, Going
o the they found the clothing,
which was identified as the same worn by
drs. Greene at the time of her disappearance.
from all the attendant circumstances il is
cared that In a moment of temporary tnsan-
ty-caused doubtless from grief at the loss of
Ter husband-she committed suicide by
-rowning in the river. She was a lady OF
t~htrty-nve years of age, medium hight,
light colored hair, gray eyes, and had a scar
n one of her legs just above the ankle,
aused by a scald when a child. H. living any
Of her whereabouts will be thank
1lly received by her friends.
Il is proper TO state that Mr.. Green died
n~tesGate, and that the MoorsB admins.
sred upon the property, giving Norris as
'Ondsmsn, VINO swore he was worth
1000 free from inoumbrsnoe. This APP
ears as part of the charge nf perjury
gainst him. People who were acquainted
nth Mrs. Green's caliRraphy were before
he grand jury, and swOre thai the sigma
ure 70 the will was not her writing. Mr..
died at MoOre's house. The friends ,
( Mrs, Green claim that shO was not
taken care OF, and tina. b would =
OF be allowed the consolation of visits
ON friends and aoquaintances. From
time of her disappearance on Thurs
sy until the Tuesday following, when
APPEALS account appeared, the pc
&c were not applied to for any informs-
relative to Mrs. Green, since which i
has been heard of hsr, no trace
yer having been discovered of where she
emit or what WSs her fate. The will fes-
Ire Of the case will be contested in the {
scond circuit court, while the criminal
Of the matter Will come under the (
Idicial observation of Judge Flippin. /