New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-05-02
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
ABDUCTION OR sUICIDEf
the STORY OF MRS. MILEs's DISAPPEARANCE fho"
HOME. As TOLD TO THE POLICE.


nur STORY OF MRS. MILEss DISAPPEARANCE fho"
HOME, AS TOLD TO THE POLICE.
Another mysterious disappearance was repor!tea
Yesterday Francis l.. Jones, gentlens1na HHls
Sns;ness on Broadway, and living at NO. zZo FlItn,
ave. reported at Police Headquarters that ne Hau
searched for three days, without success LOT Sis'
Miles, young married woman, the we %. rtv on
last Wednesday, and has not since oeen seen.
Jones exhibited the picture OF very Oe""''A"'
younp woman as that OF Mrs: MHes. A..
Her husband he said. had been in business IN tne
city till about three months ago. when business Re
verses that threatened ruin unseated MS reason @
became virtually insane. and 1t was w ~
lin INTO n Innate ASYLUM. Mrs. Miles being IN
delicate health 1t was thought advisable 70 Keep ne
in Ignorance Of her husban@s fea, ca@o ON urgent
businsss AS time passed and he dld not TeIuIn ,o
lady's suspicious were aroused. Oh iasU t uemtaI
she called upon Mr. Jones IN state vi gio1S V her
nycitement and demanded information ABOUT heI
missug husband He endeav0red TO Quiet noL, 1nT
without success. When sue went away she ""0 ''i'i
On Wednesday she left her home in Jersey CITY
and crossed to NewYork since tne6 ,b Margue
have been searched without finding the ieasI ciem
TO her fate and the police records have yieldeq 10
better result Her mother anu QUIET sshe that abe
might have gone to them but Yesterday inloi ~ -
ton came III answer to toeeraphlc meSsage, , VIZ;
they had heard nothing OF her, Today tlley MI MI
reach the city and the search will be resumed anu
made as thorough as possible. ,l,o. +,o 1odr IN.
Mr. Homes tOla of attempts to abduct tne Ia9N' up
norently in accordance with previously laid pan'
In the absence of her imprisoned husband Al war;,
Gus times he said, she received WING nv leo
eTcitcd by his unexplained absence, letters purpoIl.
ing to come from her husband urging her TO come
TO him where he was living ILL., On one ocCaslO" sue
consented to go in carriage that was sent 'GF nt
The carriage driven TO street sue diu ao1
know and when it stopped she was inViten 70 W oiu
house where was said she would nI h "nd mus oS
band Suspectimg evil she refused 10 go H. anm ~
peaIed to policeman near by. She was lh!odlne e
Nv him that she was in Grove-St" and was 0lrec'eo
Mr. JONES being advised abogt her receipt OF these
etters has used every effort to discover their author
and said Yesterday that he had man, whom nc
strongly suspected under surveillance IL is teaico
that Mrs. Miles has either fallen into the names ~
The men who underworld to entrap her. or that u
grief at the accidental discovery OF ner b a,
sought death in the river. ....,o., o,d
Mrs. Miles is described as twenty-nine years old
with black hair and eyes. The picture presents
wcll-rounded form and handsome face. Inc par1lcu
lars of her disappearance have been carefully KEEP
from tue public and the full story OF her hnsganH IL;
nosjtion and past life with the causes that leo 70 M
9eranGement, was apparently not even conhded e
the police general search through the el.y VII
be begun by the authorities when MIS- Nliies iei
tiyos arrive from Washington to-day.