Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-10-18


drab Dress dark blue vest front and cuns long dark
blue tight fitting coat with cape; dark blue iet hat
''A Address mas Mo i1I'' isf SslffsiSbEns
No. sos Penna. avenue NV"
THE oUANTIco CLUE TO BE FOLLOWED.
Detective McDevitt is inclined to believe that
there is something in the clue furnished by Mr..
Lacey, who keeps the paint store on 14th street,
as published in yesterdays STAR. That was to
the effect that he saw Belle Brown on q train
and saw her get of at Quantico. Tomorrow
morning McDevitt is going to Quantico to in
vestigate this clue.
THE GEORGETOWN CLUE.
The statement made by Mr.. Hughes that he
saw the girl in Georgetown has also gained
credence. 1t was the morning after she disap-
peared that Mr.. Hughes thought he saw the
missing girl on Bridge street going in the d.
rection Of the Free bridge. Mr.. Hughes lives
at No. 2sl6 Dumbarton avenue. He is person
ally acquainted with Mr.. Brown and also knew
Belle. When he went home Friday he told his
wife that he had seen Belle Brown on Bridge
street
VIM. Torrison, who resides at the same
place, states that he saw girl answering the
description given of the missing girl the
Virginia shore. When he saw her he said she
was talking to another girl, who was much
smaller than herself He was not acquainted
positively that it was her. His statement how
ever, bears out that made by Mr.. Hughes.
WHAT DETECTIVE WHEELER THINKS.
Detective Wheeler, who was assigned to the
case by Inspector swindell and has made in
quiries at various places, is not inclined to the
belief that she has committed suicide, but
thinks it possible that she has eloped; that be-
ing fond Of horseback riding and cunning she
has gone off to the country some
| where and is enjoying herself. De-
tective Wheeler visited the railroad depots
and steamboat wharyes, thinking she might
have purchased q ticket and paid for it in gold,
which might have attracted the attention of the
ticket seller, but the travel was so heavy at
that time that none of them thought they
would have remembered such a Circumstance
If it had occurred.
WAS SHE DISAPPOINTED IN A LOVE AFFAIR.
A rumor was circulated today that the girls
love affair, but the rumor was promptly denied
speaking to STAR reporter, said he never
knew her to be visited by any particular per-
son and he thought there was not the slightest
foundation for the rumor. He said that Belle
! had always been proud, high-spirited girl He
believed that sickness would cause her to COM
NIT suicide, as she was of such a disposition
that she would rather die than give her parents
any trouble. when she wrote the letter." he
said, Il believe she firmly intended carrying
out what she wrote. II she has not committed
suicide, believe she changed her mind after
she wrote it,"
WHAT MISS ToNEY SAW AND HEARD.
Another relative, however, said that Belle
had been infatuated with young man who
visited her fathers house as a friend merely,
| and that the recent announcement Of his APP
preaching marriage to another girl had greatly
distressed her.
This morning Inspector Swindell received
information that Miss Toney, who was en-
ployed at Hoffman's bakery, on Massachusetts
avenue between 12th and 18th streets, had seen
a man in the neighborhood of Hoffman's store
on the morning Of the day Miss Brown disap-
peared. The man was tall and handsome.
He had a mustache and side whiskers and wore
a gray suit of clothes and a gray overcoat.
Miss Toney, so 1t was reported, saw this man
talking to strange young lady. She heard
him say something about the academy of the
Holy Cross Then they separated and he went
| in the direction of the academy.
Detective Wheeler went out to look into this
report He was unable to find Miss Toney who
| left Mr.. Hoffman's employ on the day the girl
disappeared. The people at the bakery were
reported. They did not know where Miss Toney
! lived, except that her home was somewhere
| in East Washington.
Inquiry at the academy elected the fact that
no such man as the one described visited there
on that day and that leads to the belief that
the strange man and the missing girl have
probably gone off together.
Mr.. Brown went to Alexandria today and will
probably visit his brother, who owns the Old
Dominion mills, some distance below Alex
andria.
AN IMPORTANT CLUE.
Detectives McDevitt and Flinders this after
noon received what they consider the most i'm
crates the statement Of Mr.. Lacey that he saw
her on the train going to ouantico on the day
she disappeared. As heretofore published in
The STAR, the girl had saved some gold coin and
it was thought that she would probably spend
some of it if she did not carry out her inten-
lions expressed in the letter.
This latest clue is to the effect that girl
about her size appeared in the Baltimore and
Potomac depot that morning and laid down a
gold coin in payment for a ticket for passage on
one of the southern trains. The agent did not
remember to what point she was going. In the
rush the agent did not pay particular attention
to the coin, but for some reason he rejected it
and the girl paid for the ticket in other money.
The girl, he said, stood near the door after she
bought the ticket Her face was yelled and
! she watched the door closely, as though she was
afraid that some one would see her whom she
did not care to see The agent does not re-
member how she was dressed. This clue fully
corroborates that furnished by Mr.. Lacey, and
is the only clue thus far obtained that the
officers have any idea concerns the missing
girl.
The Theaters Next Week.
ALBAuaH's OPERA Housr.-"The Exiles," BY
Victorien Sardou. will be produced next Mon
day evening at Albaugh's. 1t treats of Russian
| social life in Sardou's peculiar way. The
malicious chief Of police, the generous-hearted
Russian nobleman, the persecuted heroine and
the inimitable Frenchman ara all preaent The
sufferings Of the exiles are graphically por-
trayed. most wildly perhaps by REPRESENTING