The evening world., 1891-06-23
DOLLY SEES HER DEAD DOUBLE.
The Little Actress PaintS on the
Coffin Of the Beautiful Suicide.
Deeper Mystery Than Ever Sur
rounds the Drowned Girl.

TARRYTowS, June 23.-Dolly Davis reached
here at noon accompanied by VIM. Blakency
She was driven at Once to the Morgue
While she was being led to the CONN contain
ing the dead girl Dolly burst into tears.
For several moments she was too much
overcome to look at the face OF her lifclcss
double. when she did look Dolly tainted dead
away.
Miss Davis did not recognize the dead girl,
and when she had recovered sufficiently to
speak said she had never seen her before.
The discovery by The WORLD that the
beautiful young woman who drowned herself
at midnight OF last Friday by jumping into
the river at Croton Landing was not Dolly
Davis, the actress, has whctted public inter-
est In the identity OF the suicide to an intense
pitch.
Tho evidence that Dolly Davis Is alive and
well has convinced the COroner's jury that
the identincations OF the dead girl as that
vivacious young woman were all erroneous,
and the authorities are again all at sea.
| Who is the fair unknown Detectives who
were here yesterday have gone away after a
fruitless quest. only the boy Blakely has
thus far furnished any clue to her identity,
and the Tarrytown police are looking up his
story.
II the girl he saw on the steamboat turns
out TO be the suicide, the chase Will be led
into Inspector Byrnes's territory.
This morning there Is still continuous
crowd passing through the Morgue, where the
dead girl lies, but In spite OF the closest scru-
tiny, no one has yet recognized her.
Coroner sutton Will reopen the inquest as
soon as he can get something definite to pre-
sent to the jury.
| only the Initials IN. Il. j." are left to de-
note the identity OF the fair stranger, and the
| evident haste with which the note was
| penned leaves u reasonable doubt as to their
correctness.
The body will be kept as long as possible.
| II all attempts to identify her fail, the money
| collected to bury Dolly Davis viii be used to
| crafty the last wishes OF the dead, who In her
| brief note requested that she be laid IN old
| Sleepy Hollow cemetery.
| Following Is the description OF the suicide
| given out by the Coroner. There was every
evidence about ner that she was q young
| woman OF refinement and cultured habits:
" she Is feet inch In height and weighs
| 12j pounds. She was NelN good looking.
Her hair was black and straight and about
| eight Inches long, eyes deep brown, eyebrows
black and straight, oval face straight nose,
| small mouth and good chin. She appears TO
have been about twenty-three or twenty -four
| years Olu.
"She wore liaC-colorcd percale dress, made
with a sailor waist, with Il wide square collar
| trimmed with wide and narrow white stripes.
| The same trimming was around the bottom OF
| the skirt.
| Her undprclothing was clean and new.
| She wore 2O-inch Open-wOrk corset marked
| Il. L. & s., style No. S45," h hmC-mudc Canton
| flannel drawers and white Isle thread clOcktd
| stockings. Her shoes We're rusSet leather
| oxford ties, marked on the sOlcs, but meas
| unng No. 3. Her chcInise was edged with
| two narrow blue ribbons.
| "She had with her common, cheap black
| gossamer, made with cape. Her hat was OF
| Mackinaw straw, size OJz, Nat crown and mar
row brim. Around It was wide cream
colored .gros--grain silk ribbon with narrow
| satin edges"
Dolly Davis, the dead girls double. physic.
ally, so strongly resembling her that many
| people were positive that the suicide was
| none other than the pretty actress, is very
| comfortably located at the Old Tree House, on
surf avenue Coney Island, with her friends
| Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Butler, and Will remain
there for the present.
The young man who yesterday claimed 10
| know that the dead girl was Mollie Z. Jarrett
| has disappeared, and but little credence Is
| placed in his statement
| The dead girl was photographed this MORN
| ing, and copies OF the likeness will be sent 70
the police departments OF all surrounding
towns and villages.