The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-12-21
Miss st. Pierre Visits New YorA
and Falls Into the Hands
Of q Reporter.
An Interesting Description Of Herself
Simply Business Woman" Bent
On Making Money.
Who Her Missing Secretary Was--How
He Disappeared-She Believes
He Has Been Found.

New YORK, December 2l.--An article
was published here on Friday entitled
"Tennessee's Wild Man." mentioning
Miss Maud st. Pierre as the lady in whose
employthe "wild man" had been previous
to his disappearance. Miss st. Pierre was
In the city yesterday on business connect
ed with the railroad she is building from
Anderson Station, Tenn, to her mines.
She said to reporter;
"The report concerning Mr.. Neal, my
Secretary, and myself is incorrect in some
respects. There is nothing at all mystic
rious about me. am simply business
woman. My success in business has been
surprise to many people, who
think woman knows nothing OF bust.
ness, and on this account several stories
have been started about me. l purchased
$4,000 acres of coal and mining lands in
Anderson aud Franklin counties, Tennes-
see. Some time ago opened the mines
and began
BUILDING A ROAD
from them to Anderson, a distance of two
miles. The Nashville & Chattanooga
Railroad has agreed to furnish the iron
and engines for it and will connect with
that road. l have also constructed
solid wagon road three miles long from
the mines. Much of 1t is built through
rock. l hire and pay my men personally
and am compelled to be on horseback
nearly all day, but l never carry large
sums about me and have never made the
slightest claim to any relationship to
Myra Clark Gains. l employ fifty men
and pay them on the first of every month.
Mine are the only mines in the South that
produce good quality of semi-bitumin.
GUS coal. The mines are deep and long
and the miners average ninety bushels
day. There is
NOTHING MYSTERIOUS ABOUT ME,
I am native of Louisiana, have been
abroad, and am in business to make
money. am going back to my mines to.
morrow; and now that have told you
who am, will tell you about my secre.
tary. His name is John Neal, and he
belongs to one of the first families of Ala.
bama. He is a cousin Of the late VIM.
M. Love, member of Congress from Ala.
bama, and is gentlemen in every re-
spect. He was employed by me as a sec.
rotary and had been with me about one
year when he disappeared. He had been
sick for short time. On June 6th he
left his house at Anderson, about noon,
and went to Glen, a short distance away.
He was missed almost Immediately, and
party started in search OF him. Not
more than twenty minutes later the flow-
ers Of
BUTTON HOLE BOUQUET
which he had worn were found scattered
over the rocks In Glen, but no other trace
could be found, although all hands turned |
out and the woods and mountains for
miles about were thoroughly searched.
Parties were on the lookout for him for |
weeks. The many caves in the noun
tains were carefully gone through several
times. used every means in my power
to find some trace Of him. Ponds were
dragged. All my men were included
in the searchers, and / hired detectives
and offered large rewards. reward of
$1,000 Is still standing, and | would
gladly pay it for his recovery. l did this
simply because he was in my employ at
the time and because of his widowed
mother, who Is almost frantic at the
loss of her son. How or why he dis
appeared l can't say. had sent him
down to Anderson from Huntsville,
fifty miles away, to get money from the
bank with which to pay the men, and
1t is possible that some rufilans may have
known this and may have
FOLLOWED AND KILLED HIM,
but ! don't know anything about II.
There were five disappearance in six
weeks at this time, all of persons living
within radius Of fifty miles. The rumor
that he Is found seems to be very likely
true. A number of rumors of his having
been seen have come to me from time TO
time. One colored woman said she saw
q man In ragged clothes run in and out of
a deserted church of Benefits Cave,
which is six miles from Anderson.
Search parties went there, but no trace
of the man could be found. The woman
is quite certain it was Neal; she knew
him well. At another time
an article in the Scotts-
boro Herald stated that man had seen
Neal while hunting in the woods near
there. / believe the report that he was
found in Sweeten's Cave is correct. The
caves are so many and the paths in them
intricate, that person might easily hide
In them Tor long time without being
discovered. think he Is suffering from
temporary alteration of mind. The story
about his having had delirium tremens Is
entirely false, for he never was under the
influence of lionor