Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1891-06-27

went to the dead house in Philadelphia
every day for long time, but 1 never
found her Then 1 read in the papers of a
suicide in Chicago, and went out there 1t
was not nv wife. Invent to Harrisburg, to
Savannah, to Louisville, to Cincinnati, to
New Orleans, to the West Indies-every-
where TO look for my wife.
The Search for the Missing.
"You can't imagine what it is, the feeling
with which went around, hope and fear
and fear and hope making me happy and
miserable by turns. 1 always took Louise
with me when went to look at body to
see if it was my wife's. 1t has always been
my desire that she should see her mother in
death, if not in life, and 1 did not want to
run the risk of their buryiEg the body be-
fore Louise could see it. We saw
many a body, Louise and /, and we were
in many dead houses together. Why, I
have been to the morgue in New York Il
times to look for my wife. Once saw in
the papers that woman had been found
dead in Havana. Nobody knew who she
was, and Mr.. Southwick, a friend of mine
who is connected with the Cuban steamship
line, advised me TO go down and see the
body. He knows the whole story, and 1
took his advice. We went down there,
Louise and I, but it was not the woman I
wanted to see.
"well, 1 searched and searched and
looked at more than hundred bodies, and
1 gave it up. Two days ago friend of
mine sent me a newspaper containing the
story of this woman. / did not place any
faith in it, but he advised me to try, and as
l did not want to leave any stone unturned,
1 came here.
''On the way from the station I almost
wanted TO get. ont of the carriage and go
back, so disheartened had 1 become from all
the other failures You know the whole
story now. The body in the box there may
not be that of my wife. Death is queer
thing and we can never understand it. But
as sure as a husband can be that he sees his
wife dead before him, so sure am that she
is mine. Now that L think of it, my wife
had mole on the back of her neck, right
under the hair.
Proving 1t by a Mole.
All eyes were turned TO the physician,
who had examined the body, and who had
listened to every word of the story. He
nodded and said:
eyes, there is mole on the back of the
neck. l noticed that the first day."
Many questions were then asked, which
Mr.. Atwood answered, though, it was easy
TO see, much against his inclination. He
Salu, IN answer 10 some OF Inese questlous,
that he could not identify any of the wo-
mans garments, and that he hadn't the
slightest idea whether his wife had any
friends in the neighborhood.
The mystery of the woman's death re-
mains unsolved. AT the Coroner's inquest
a woman testified that between II and u
o'clock on Saturday morning last two men,
one of whom she recognized as Frederick c.
Altz, briekyard employe, passed her on
the street, and she heard the other man,
whom she did not know, say to Altz: "She
hollered and scratched me-
Chief of Police Nossiter learned that the
man who had said this was Edward Allen,
who is known about the brickyards. The
Chief of Police does not believe in the
suicide theory. He said he had noticed
many minor details which he did not believe
could accompany a suicide.