The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-09-12

Cn,c,eo, Sept. 1l.-No trace has yet
,.sr iopnd Of Miss Vera Ava, who came
5s,o to work for the reclamation OF
i,rco women, and who mysteriously
@.,,pcarcd on Wednesday evening.
Vera Ava is, it is now asserted, none
o,bor than Ann ODeiia Diss De Bar,
,be .pook priestess OF New York, She
,o. .ocn on the street and recognized
5r a New York newspaper woman, who
c,leJ npon Police Lieutenant Shea this
morning and told him of her discovery.
He, description OF Ann 0'Delia tallies
ey,ctly with that OF Miss Ava.
According to the New York lady, the
notorious spiritualist carries q stock OF
wis and other make-ups, and has OF
,,to been travelling across the country
s.1windingguIlible .1 church people; Dough-
erty, the carriage driver who has been
driving the alleged philanthropist
around town, was at police headquart..
rrs his morning, and his description OF
her i identical with that furnished by
tbe lady from New York, who declared
in positive terms that the missing party
was Diss de Bar and nobody else.
II have no doubt, judging from the
..o,emepts furnished me by the lady
,,,n, Nav York that Miss Eva is Diss
de Bar" said Lieut.. Shea, "and this
opinion is strengthened from intorma-
lion cleaned from other sources"
Mrs. Bolton, the wife OF Rev. DR.. Boil
Ton, OF the Centenary Methodist church,
with which Miss Ava became connected
= short time, said in an interview to-
day;
Before you can fully enter into my
reasons for believing that Miss Eva has
met with foul play, you should under
stand what manner OF person she was.
Miss Ava was highly educated woman
iEom the English upper middle classes.
She spoke four languages ttuentty. She
has been an extensive traveller. She
has u record for distinguished bravery
during the Franco-Prussian war, and
has seen active service with the ambu-
lanCes on the field OF battle. She was
unmistakably n lady. Her charities
have been already spoken about. On
Wednesday evening when l accompa-
MED 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 $40 gold pieces.
In addition she showed me about 81 GOO
worth OF diamonds.
Swear" she said, raising her right
hand in q somewhat dramatic manner,
that iieyerl disappear you will not
rest until YOU have found me, even il
you haze to ask All Chicago to join you
in the search"
did not swear, Of course, but prom
ised her most earnestly that l would.
She said that she had enemies, and that
and that her mother had been murder
ed. She seemed apprehensive that some
such fate would overtake herself. She
never said word against the Catholic
religion from which she was a convert.
She said she had spent many happy
days as a rcligieuse, but desired q broad
er field tor charitable work than the Sc
clason OF the cloisturo afforded her.
My firm and honest belief is that she
las been dccoyed by some unscrupu-
!ous villains into safe place and that
She hos been foully robbed and MUIR
derei.
LATRR--A NEW PHASE.
a Cincinnati despatch says: Miss
Vera Ava, if her own testimony is to be
crcditcd,is here in the Cincinnati House
OF detention. She is rather large wo.
man apparently IS years old, has
iigh. blue eyes and rather
closely cropped hair well sprinkled
with gray. She talks sometimes
nationally, and sometimes with wild in
Goherence. She says her name was Vera
Ava, that her native place is London,
England, and that lately she has been
IN Chicago, and somebody brought her
ron that city to this place, but who
!efougnt her, how and when she was
brought, she seems unable or unwilling
10 tell
= Sergeant Cudmore, in charge of the
central police station, tonight received
!aS g. following telegram from the chief OF
police. Cincinnati:
+ " MC'Gughry.
o We have Miss Vera P. Ava, residing
ON Monroe street. Has no baggage.
Answer what to do with her.
lSigned) PUuIIp D,grscu
Sergeant Cudmore replied:
Release Miss Vera p. Ava. We do
not want her.