The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-04-14
WHERE IS ANN ODELIA?
The Spook Priestess Sends
Word to the Newspa-
pers that She Will
Commit Sui
eide.
HER STAY AT TAYLOR's HOTEL
Departing She Leaves a Memento
in the Shape of an Unpaid
Board Bill.

board Bill.
That princess of fakirs who has been
known at various times as Ann O'Delia
Solomon, of Kentucky; Nine. Messant,
the wife of a French artist. since dead;
the Princess Editha Lolita of Bavaria.
daughter of the Crazy King Ludwig and
Lola Montez. the famous dancer;
Baroness Rosenthal, and lastly,
Nine. Diss Debar, consort to old Gen"
Diss Debar, with whom sho spent
year on Blackweils Island for having
hoodwinked the venerable lawyer,
Luther r. Marsh. out of his property, os-
tensibly for a Spiritualistic temple. by
palming of the Generals miserable daubs
upon him as the work of old masters IN
the Spirit Land, has surpassed all her
previous sensations with this letter,
which she sent to the Associated Press
last evening"
To the Associated Press of the City of Netc
have this day written to De Iancey NicoII,
District Attorney of New York City, a last
letter containing requests, documents and
lam about TO end this most farcical Of human
exstences called life, and to that end have writ
ten my last Instructions
As a body of journalists you are collectively
welcome 10 every line to the District Attorney.
/ regret 10 disappont you and your fraternity
In the modus operandi of my taking on. will
admi for argnpent's sake that it would have
been eminently more respectable to have sway
lowed a certain deadly pill now lying so tempt
ingly before me to have composed myself on
the comfortable sofa IN room ., Taylor's Hotel,
But there was this very decided objection
thereto--not even the Coroner's inquest, but the
endie inquests Of those whom it did not con-
cern.
have therefore determined aud shall have
done the same before you shall have read even
OF the act quietly from oue OF the Staten Island
ferry boats to drop forever .Out OF Sight"
On whatever coast my mortal remains wash
as hore please request for me their interment
there. have taken great precaution that the
body thus found shall be fully identified as
mine.
II, however, I could in death be granted
wish, denied to me on several shipwreck occa-
sions, / would sincerely hops that my body
might drift out and dissolve in the friendly
elements Of old Mother Ocean.
have written letters TO my old and valued
friend, Luther r. Marsh, and to my lawyers,
B oadway, New York city.
re main, gentlemen, with my best wishes,
for the continuation OF the freedom and inde-
pendenee OF the press Of this country. Sin
cerely. T. L. DIss DEBAR
This remarkable production was writ
ten on a Taylor's Hotel letterhead in a
bold hand and was mailed at the general
postofilee, New York. at eleven O'Clock
last night
no TRACE OF THE PRrEsrEss.
No one of the employees of the Staten
Island ferry remember seeing last night
any passenger answering the spook
priestess' description, and no body which
might possibly be hers has been
found in any of the waters in this vicin-
ity. Mrs Diss Debar came TO Taylor's
. Nwvs~ dofra 4lwT
young woman with dark, short curly
hair.
The pair was registered as Mrs. B.
Rosenthal, Miss Rosenthal, Boston. The
women were given room 20, modest in
side bed-chamber ten feet square, on the
second floor.
Two or three days later the ladies were
given room 3, large and pretty parIor,
with a cosy little bedroom adjoining.
This apartment is directly over the Ex-
change place entrance.
THE PAIRS GRADUAL DISAPPEARANCE.
The clerk says that Miss Roseuthal was
Mrs. Dis Debars maid Miss Swintor, and
that she was registered RosenthRl by
mistake. On Saturday the maid went
out and has not been seen since.
'The Baroness" appeared at Taylor's in
the garb of a Sister of Charity, as she
has posed since her return from her
last series of escapades in Europe.
identity became known TO them the same
day that sne first appeared there. She
went away yesterday, and they expected
her back today. She left an eleven days
board bill unpaid aud two TRUNKS bearing
in big white painted letters the name
Mrs. Diss Debar." A lift at either
of them did not require the strength
of an athlete, and it is surmised that
their contents must be the costumes worn
by her as Cupid" In the production of
"Out of Sight" at Manager Hoeffie's Har-
lem Theatre. On one of the trunks was
a brown leather travelling bag, and all or
the effects of the whilom guest seemed to
have been packed mp, with one exception.
A Jenness- Miller harness lay on one of
the trunks, creased and rumpled in man
ner suggestive of recent wear. The re-
porter searched in vain for that death
dealing pill. or the box which might have
held the fatal capsule. 1t was not there.
The hotel people all declared that the
madame had behaved like other guests.
She was quiet, dignified and sedate. but
cheerful and apparently in the full
enjoyment of life. At police headquarters
Chief Murphy said
CHIEF MURPHY WAS on TO HER.
"Oh, yes; Ann O'Delia had not been in
town two hours before her presence was
her, though she gave no indication of de-
string to remain Out of sight She has
behaved herself very nicely. You see.
the first time l ever saw herwas about
six years ago. There was
some kind of a rumpus at
the Pennsylvania depot between her and
a young girl, and an officer brought them
both in. Madame had another name
then. l forget II, but she entered a COM
plaint against her daughter. Afterwards
they fixed tup ana went away together
Chief Murphy does not place much
faith in her threats ofsuicide.
Tried to Initiate Hallinger.
James Flynn. TWENTY-FIVE years old, of