The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1891-09-23
MRS. MA1LLARD's VANISHING.

1t looks as if the Mailard case would
take place on the long list of mysterious
disappearance. On the 31st of August
Emily Hart Mailard. wife of Joseph Mail
lard, a substantial rancher of San Gero-
nimo, near San Rafael, left her home on the
morning train for San Francisco. She had
written on the previous day to her husband.
who was absent from home, that she pro-
posed to visit the city to hire a cook, and
she had ad ed that as her movements would
be uncertain, he hal better not write to her
for three or four days. After that a letter
addressed to Santa Rosa would find her. On
the train she met Mr.. Charles II. Dwinelle,
who couversed with her, and whom she in
formed that she would 80 to Santa Rosa
that evening. On the arrival of the boat he
escorted her ashore and accompanied her as
far as the landing of the oakland ferry
boats. There he left her. About II O'Clock
in the morning of the same day she visited
her dentist, al Market and Sixth streets, and
about an hour later she inquired at an in
teJligence office for a cook, and wrote from
the office a short note TO her husband, stat
ing that she intended to sleep at Oakland at
the house of friends named Cohen. 1t was
subsequently ascertained that the Cohens
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that moment all trace of her is lost.
Mrs. Maillard is described as rather at
tractive in appearance, though stout Sheis
about 30 years of age and has two children.
She has always lived happily with her hus-
band. He says himself that there never was
more devoted and affectionate wife. No
quarrels had ever occurred between them.
Even before her marriage she had never
been given to flirtations All who knew
her liked her. aud spoke Of her as a woman
Of a lovely disposition.
The only man who has been made to fig
ure in the case is a hired man who worked
for Mr. Maillard, named William Ingram.
He is described as a man of good address,
80 years old, well formed, with good fea-
lures; one who had travelled widely, could
talk we'll of what he had seen, and had evil
IDENTIFY seen better days. He drew his pay
on August 29ih and left San Geronimo for
Southern California, as be said. on August
30th, the day before Mrs. MalIard's disap-
pearance.
As always happens in these cases, a num-
Der of theories have been preached 10 ac-
count for the disappearance. 1t has been
feared that she was Kidnapped and muir
dered and her body concealed. Some have
supposed that in a period of alteration of
mind she wandered away aimlessly and
threw herself into the bay, or Toamed into
the woods to die. 1t is difficult to reconcile
any of these theories with the facts. Dead
bodies have been concealed by murderers,
but it is no easy job. No practitioner of ir-
regular surgery would be likely to run the
risk of concealing a corpse in his house.
1t is hard to conceive an illness which could
keep patient silent for three weeks. II
Mrs. Maillard had been in San Francisco,
dead or alive, for the last twenty-one days,
some one would almost certainly have
found her
A presumption that she disappeared vol
unfairly is raised by her own statements.
On the Tiburon boat she told Mr.. Dwinelle
that she was going to Santa Rosa that after
noon. TO her husband she wrote on the
same day that she would sleep that night al
Oakland. She was not heard of at either
place. Neither Dwinelle nor the dentist,
nor the intelligence office keeper noticed
any fightiness in her appearance; she APP
peared to be in the full possession of her
intelligence. and the inference-painful as
| it ISIS Inevitable that these statements
were not marked by her usual eandor.
Men have not unfrequently disappeared
from freak or whm, or disOrdered mind,
and have been undiscovered for long Pc
RODS. Every one remembers Hawthorne
famous story of the man who walked ont of
his front door one afternoon and was never
heard of again for twenty years, though
through all that period he had slept regu-
| larry within three blocks of his house.
"Old Hutch" OF the Chicago Board of
Trade disappeared the other day, concealed
himself completely for several weeks and
was mourned for dead, until he turned up
in the pit" smiling and chipping as ever.
Women have not been prone to such
eclipses. When they disappear it is generally
| in company with select affinity.