The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-12-22
A WOMAN DISAPPEARS
She Leaves Home for Half an
Hour, but Does Not Return.
DETECTIVES CANNOT FIND HER.
Maggie Healy, Domestic, Mysteriously
Missing for Week-yictim of
Timber-Claim Swindler.

A strange story is told of the disappearance Of
Miss Maggie Healey, domestic IN the home OF
Jacob Davis, on south Tenth street, near fesler
avenue. Two weeks ago sunday evening Miss
Healy left Mr.. Davis home at 7:So o'clock,
ostensibly to call on her friend, Miss Della A.
Mulligan, domestic in the home of Daniel z.
Muiligau at "A Columbia street, but no relative
OF his, and since that evening she has not been
seen. Where she is no one knows. Her dIsap-
pearance cannot be accounted for, and the de-
teetives III whose hands the matter Is placed
have not the slightest clue 70 follow
A OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES reporter called on Mr..
Davis at his home yesterday, but neither he nor
Mrs. Davis had any idea where the woman had
gone They say she had been working for them
about two months, and was very steady and in
dustrious. Her only friend in the city, or any
where else so far as they knew, was Della
Mulligan, who worked in the home OF Daniel
Aulligan, at 42f Columbia street Sunday after
noon she was away nearly two hours, which for
her was strange in the extreme. She was not
with her friend, as was subsequently learned,
and where she could have been is only matter
OF conjecture.
At7;30 in the evening she stepped into the
parlor where Mrs. Davis was entertaining COM
pany, aud said:
SIN going to see Della, and will be back in
half an hour
She was lightly dressed at the time, and Mrs.
At $50 o'clock she had not returned, and il was
noticed that the lampon the bureau in her room
up stairs was still burning. Her clothes were
scattered shout the room, showing that she had
every intention of returning She had no key 10
the house, and Mr.. Davis sat up until Il o'clock
waiting Tor her return, when, concluding that
she must have remained with her friend, for
the night, he went to bed. 1t was later learned
that she did not go near her friend, Della
Mulllgan, all day. Tuesday morning Mr.. Davis
placed the matter In the hands OF the chief of
police, but il is not known whether that official
has ever interested himself in hunting up the
lost woman or not. When he was questioned
yesterday the matter had passed from his
memory.
Miss Healey was at least 80 years of age,
walked with stoop OF the shoulders, and,
though not OF progressing appearance, she
was modest and retiring in manner As far as
known she had no male acquaintance, and
seemed to shun mems company. The evening
she left Mrs Davis residence she had about so
IN money with her.
Della Mulligan, the friend of the missing
woman, speaking OF her acquaintance with her,
said that Miss Healey came from Minneapolis to
Seattle about d year and half ago. About five
months ago, both the women had an experience
win j. w, Swenson, a timber land sWindler,
which may in some way account for Miss
Healeys disappearance. They called on Sven
son az his office in room OF the second floor of
the hIttinger building, on South second and
Washington streets, and were DESTROYS OF taking
up presumption claim. Upon the payment OF
S7y swenson agreed TO locate them upon some
valuable timber land Miss Heaey paid So and
Miss Mulligan so. Swenson, having received
the money, was ii no hurry to locate them, and
kept putting them off month after month until
about three weeks ago, when Miss MuIiigau de-
nlanded the repayment of the money! but with
out success. Whether Miss Healy called on the
land shark and made similar demand, and
Swenson, thinking to get rid OF her, inyeigled
her into the country, where she could no longer
bother him. Is not known.