Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-09-17
FRlZZED AND BANGED.
THAT'S THE WAY HER BLONDE
WIG WAS FIXED.
Miss Ava Speaks French Like a Native,
and Told All Sorts of Strange
Stories About Herself

| CHICAGO, Ill, Sept. 11.-There is no
| trace get of the missing Englishwoman,
| Miss Ava. 1t is now said that the missing
| party is none other than Ann Adelia Dis
| bar, the notorious Spritualist.
| 1t has been discovered that the woman
! who answers the description of Miss Ava,
| who so suddenly disappeared Wednesday,
| called at one of the medical colleges yes
| terday. II this were she it 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 were 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| have been withdrawn.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 F'eehan. She
| told Mrs Bolton, with whom she drove to
the archbishop's residence, that she was
going to see about getting some property
which was III possession OF the Catchohc
church in England. She was formerly
member of that church, and it is said was
once nun. They evidently distrusted
Mrs. Bolton, as the archbishop says her
talk was exclusively in regard to her work
among the vicious classes of this city, and
was not of personal character at all She
did not mention to the archbishop the fact
that she was an apostate from the church
or make any overture looking TO her re-
turn.
1t appears that she again called on Arch
bishop Feehan yesterday. a cabman who
drove her there identified Miss Avd'S pict-
ure as that OF the woman in question. He
said that after she entered the cab he saw
her take of her blonde wig and arrange her
hair. About week ago she visited M.
Saddler, the British consul here, and under
the seal of secrecy told him q remarkable
and mystifying story, as Mr.. Saddler con-
fesses, but he declines to give the tenor of
it. She was very captivating, with full
,trir- f,.iz md h1,,1 i ,~l.l
Saddler that she had lived in Chicago ten
years, whereas she had not been living
here as many weeks. Saddler says he does
not believe her to be an English woman,
She spoke with a French accent and spoke
French like native.
Mrs. Bolton, the wife of Rev. Mr. Boil
ton of the Centenary Methodist church with
which Miss Ava became connected q short
time ago, said in 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 person
she was. Miss Ava was a highly educated
woman from the English upper-middle
class. She spoke four languages fluently.
She has been an extensive traveller She
has record for distinguished bravery dur
ing the F'ranco-Prussian war; and has seen
active service with ambulances on the
field of battle. She was Enthusiastically
d lazy. tier CuirlllcS nave been
already spoken about They were
unquestionably genuine and her interest in
her mission work undoubtedly sincere.
Wendes 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. II
was literally crammed with $50 gold-pieces.
In addition she showed me about $1,000
worth of diamonds.
Swear she said, raising her right
hand in somewhat dramatic man
ner, that if 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 l did not swear of
course, but promised her most earnestly
that l would. After We became &C.
quainted she told me something of
her family affairs. She said that
she had enemies and that her mother had
been murdered. She seemed apprehensiye
that some such fate would overtake herself.
She never said word against the Catho-
lie religion, from which she was a convert.
She said she had spent many happy DAYS as
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 an excellent writer upon
theological and economic subjects and said |
that she worked in the cause Of Catholicism |
for many years with her pen. I honestly be- |