Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-03-22
THE FAIR LEONORA.
Some Facts About a Late Chi
eago Sensation
. TALK WITH MISS EssELL's DAD

The Young Woman Not Lacking in Er
perienee-A wayward Life. Intending
In Its Course a Taste of Variety Acting.
Marriage and Desertfon, and q whack
at the Work of Book Agent-Perfdsous
Clarence.
FAYErIg CRY. Pa, March 22.-The story
II Lecnora Enseli as told in the Chicago
courts il rather more romantic than the cir
curnstaness of her former life Justify. An
Investigation BY a correspondent IA Fayeste
City, her former home, developed that her
giitterins claim 10 being an entrapped heir
es has little foundation in fact. Her father,
Edvsri EnseIl, Is a glsss-blower in moder-
ate circumstances, and she herself has led
the life Of a variety actress for five or six
years To saE the least she does not stand
high IN the estimation Of Ter parents neigh
bors. The father defends his daughters
good name and Tledgs himself 70 stand BY
her IS long a he has dollar. He will start
10 Chicago Monday and bring her home.
Leonora Was a Great Worry.
Mr. EASEL told the correspondent this his
tory OF tie girls life; Nora has for years
caused great deal Of iroutle TO me-, but /
lock on her faults with a fathers eve She
was generally oheiient TO me- and / viii
not believe that in all her adventures shs
ever led any other than moral life. She
seemed TO be cursed with disposition TO
rove and sac the world, and theagh | havs
repeatedly tried 20 get her TO stay az home
she never would remain long, generally
leaving with some travelling show.
Book A gent and Actress
ETke first time she went away was as
book agent | was then living at Browns
vile, Pa, and she was visiting her grand
parents at Pi:tsburg. The first heard Of it
wss through letter from her. She was in
Ohio travelling with a man and his wife
Thy were highly respectable and she made
quite success Of the work receiving band
some salary She came home after awhile
but did not stay long, leaving with an
@Uncis Toms Cabin company do not
know the proprietor, but she was afterward
with Stark's company, and was considered
remarkably successful Tol.y Her stage
name was Leo Claire.
Tried Married Life Once.
two years ago she was married to man
named Fred Weigel She was at home here
IN Fayette City, where we had only recently
moved, when an Indian MEDICINE show Wis
tied the town Weigel was with IT. and she
had known him before and was easily in
duced to join the troupe. She afterward in
formed me that they had been married He
deserted her in the west She was at home
a short time a year ago last winter and told
me that she had procured divorce She
left shortly after TO join Duncan Clark's va
riety company, since which time have not
seen her, and have heard from her at only
rare intervals till the beginning Of this
trouble in which she is now involved
Her Chicago Adventure.
-sshe first sent t. me for money about two
| months ago, representing that she was sick
A second time she claimed TO have been i'm
prisoned, and still a third she said she was
very i'll and wanted 70 come home to die
set her in all about s45 1t
was the only time she ever deceived me
No, / would not have been able To give
my daughter e. 600 on proof of her mar
riage- think that part Of the Chicago story
is mistake When she wrote and told me
she was to be married to krout she wanted
to know what | would do for her an
swerei that | would SEMI her 500. aud
suppose the newspapers have added a cipher
by mistake.