The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-01
4 SURF MYSTERY
,,,,,ob Enghrouds the Disappear
o,oe o. q Man and Woman.
TAP CLOTHING IN A BATH HOUSE
III Trace of the Man and His
Pretty sistcr.i"'haw is ho't..'A case ,
,,.,,,cn Has a Peculiar TinGe of
,,,,,,rcc...was 1t Suicide or an
Elopcmcnt3

v,,, yopr. Aug. 3l.-Joseph Wilson,
baker. employed by Thornton Bros,
Va. 0io 400 ,lyrtie avenue, went to Coney
I.opl saturday, lie identified tue
i'I I'arl female clothing found in BAL
i-'. y. rtbins pavilion on Thursday as
, ,-y' TO Samuel W. Thornton, one
LII t,,ts.mploycrs, and Miss Eva Jewell
T,a,r,op's sister.in-law. They lett
".i, home. No. III Cumberland street.
. , the Thornton's have another
,ascry. on Thursday afternoon. 1t was
, .'' they had gone to Freeport to
,, in, home samuels wife. She had
1'ca stopping there for the past
works Much alarm was felt
n y tho pair was not heard from;
T VII. more was thought OF 1t unul
i,ii 7rcrl description OF the cloth
",i,1al in the bathing pavilion.
" I'M, garments worn by them when
,lS" Iri, tailed in description with
. J iouuI in the bath house: inns
' "v.rJ apprehension in the minds oil
yTa.oa mil William Thornton, Sam
,.T. Irothpr, but it was not unit! yes
, W. ,ha, they decided to investigate.
W iJl went to Coney Island early in
en-. morning. Shortly after arriving
thor. he autographed back that his
%or., fears had been realized. The
a.,m.nts were those worn by Samuel
md Eva when they went away.
The question which now arises is
,,lrther they were drowned in tho surf
az mys,eriously disappeared in some
C,brr manner. The theory that they
we're both drowned is the most plaus-
sblc one his friends say, for Thornton,
4 lie had intended to 60 away, would
IN ollprobabiity have taken with him
his soIl watch and chain and other
wuablcs found in the pockets OF his
clothing. =,
Eys's sister, went TO Frceport on a vaca-
lion. lie promised to bring her home
a, soon as she was ready. While she
VA: absent Eva, who was employed in
;be Myrtle avenue bakery, did the
housekeeping for the two brothers. She
lived with the family. She seldom was
atent from the house. She did not so
in company with any one except the
immediate members OF the family.
On Thursday afternoon Samuel said
he did not know whether he would take
Eva to Couey Island or go to Freeport
for his wife. When the pair lett the
house he was still undecided what he
would do. Now it appears that the
pair went to Coney Island, leaving
Brooklyn at O'Clock by the Culver
route.
went once to the bath-house. None OF
lie attendants there appear to have
any knowledge OF them, although Mrs.
Thompson, the attendant on the wo-
mans side OF the pavilion, says she re-
members seeing u girl OF Eva's descrip-
ton with man some time during the
afternoon. She remembered her be-
cause she had admired the beautiful
bat worn by the girl.
She did not notice tho man who was
in Eya's company. No further thought
WIS given TO the pair until the clothes
were touud in the dressing-rooms about
closing up time.
ThorntOus brother, William, yester-
day started for Freeport to break the
sal news TO the woman who has so sud-
denly and unCxpectedlybeen confronted
with grief.
Chief Of Police John y. McKanc, OF
CoNey Island, yesterday remarked that
the case was very peculiar one. lie
thought II the pair had been drowned
in the surf the condition OF wind and
tide oil Thursday would nave driven
the bodies ashore at or near Concy
Island. lie has been furnished with i
good description OF the man and woman.
The beach is being patrolled In search
oi the bodies.
Eva Jewell was an attractive young
girl, twenty-five years old. Her hair
and eyes were dark and her complexion
ha4a delicate olive tint. She was tall
and finely formed.
Thornton was short and stout. with
sandy hair and mustache. lie had n
mdly face.
The police authorities at Coney Is
land Scoat at the theory that the couple
ylCpedi and lett theirclothing MS blind.
itis their opinion that they remained
iathc water and were drowned, not in
font OF BaImer's pavilion, but further
93wa the beach. 1t was learned thai
Thornton and Eva had their photo
graphs taken on the beach before going
INTO the water. The police are trying
10 ind out at which gallery.
None OF the life savers ut tho West
End Ind their attention called to any
Ila;usuaI commotion in the water OH
thursday night. They think tho young
People may have walked up or down
'Nc beach where there were no pavil.
ions and there were drowned. This
."eofy Is the more probable OF any that
Y yet been offered, Suicide is out OF
'ae question, as the young people
aaghcd and joked with each other 20.
wy ron the pavilion to the water.
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