Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-12
FRIZZED AND BANGED.
THAT'S THE WAY HER BLONDE
WIG WAS FIXED.
Miss Ava Speaks French LiRe 4 Native,
and Told All Sorts OF strange
Stories About Herself

Chicago, Ill, Sept. ll.-There is no
trace yet of the missing Englishwoman
Miss Ava. II is now said that the missing
party IS none other than Ann Adella Dis
bar, the notorious spiritualiSt.
1t has been discovered that the woman
who answers the description of Miss Ava,
who SO suddenly disappeared Wednesday
called al one of the medical colleges yes
terday II this were she ii proves that SHE
was rot made away with on Wednesday
night Policemen have become convinced
that the woman is merely in hiding, and the
detectives who We're detailed on the case
have been withdrawn.
On the day Of her disappearance the
alleged Miss Ava called upon and had an
interview with Archbishop t'eehan. She
told Mrs Bolton, with whom she drove 10
the archbishop's residence, that she was
going to see about getting some property
which was III possession of the CatchOlic
church in England She was formerly Il
member of that church, and it IS said was
once L nun. They evidently dlstrusted
Mrs. Bolton, as the archbishop says her
talk WAS exclusively i'll regard to her work
among the vicious classes Of this city, and
was not of Z personal character at all. She
did not mention 10 the archbishop the fact
that she WAS an apOstate from the church
or make any overture looking TO her re-
turn.
II appears that she again called on Arch
bishop f'eGhau Yesterday. A cabnau VINO
drove her there identified Miss Ava'S pict-
urc is that of the woman i'll question. He
said that after she entered the cab he saw
her take off her blonde wig and arrange her
har. About a week ago she visited NJ.
saddler, the British consul here, and under
the seal of secrecy told him d remarkable
and mystifying story, Is Mr.. Saddlef con-
ieSseS. but ne declines u give the tenor Of
ii. She was very captivating, with full
blonde wig. fried and banged. and told
Saddler that she had lived in Chicago ten
wears. whereas she had not been living
here as many weeks. Saddler says he does
not believe her to be an English wOmalfi
She spoke with French accent and spoke
French like Il native.
Mrs Bolton, the wife of Rev. Mr. Boil
ton of the Centenary Methodist church with
which Miss Ava became connected 4 short
time ago, said i'll an interview to-day: Be
fore you can fully enter into any reasons
for believing that Miss Ava has
met with foul play you should
understand what manner of a person
she was. Miss Ava was Il highly educated
woman from the English upper middle
class She spoke four languages tiuently.
She has been IN extensive traveller. She
has record for distinguished bravery dur
ing the FTanco-Prussian war and has seen
active service with ambulanceS on the
field of battle She was Enthusiastically
a lady. Her charities have been
already spoken about They We're
uuquestionably genuine and her interest in
her mission work undoubtedly sincere
Nendcs ay evening when l accompanied
her in her carriage TO the church of the
Holy Family she showed me her
wallet Just before she alighted. 1t
was literally crammed with so gold pieces.
IN addition she showed me about $1,000
worth of diamonds.
- Swear. she said. raising her right
hand in Il somewhat dramatic man
uer, that il l ever disappear that you
will not rest until YOU have found
me, if you have to ask all Chicago to join
you in the search. | did not swear of
course. but | promised her most earnestly
that I would. After we became ac-
quainted she told me something of
her family affairs. She said that
she had enemies and that her mother had
been murdered. She seemed apprehensive
that some such fate would overtake herself.
She never said a word against the Catho-
lie religion, from which she was Il convert
She said she had spent many happy days as
a religieuse, but desired charitable work
more than the seclusion of a cloister
afforded her. During her connection with
that church she was sent twice
to England on ecclesiastical business.
She was all excellent writer upon
theological and economic subjects and said
that she worked in the cause of Catholicism
for many years with her pen. | honestly be-
iieye that on Wednesday evening Vera Ava
left that carriage with all those valuables
for some unknown but perfectly
proper purpose. She may have wished to
raise money on her diamonds in further
ance of her charitable designs ANA
have adopted the plan Of sim
ply passing through the church
intending TO return and reioin me when she
loo ,,,r, ,,-ith hAr h1rSi AItr
present honest belief is that she has been
decoyed by some INSCRIPTIONS villains into
4 safe place and that she has been foully
robbed or murdered