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showed me about $4,000 worth of dia-

showed me about $4,000 worth of dia-
mondS.
Swear she said. raising her right
hand in somewhat dramatic manner,
that if ever | disappear you will not
rest until you have found me, even if
you have to ask all Chicago to join you
in the search did not swear, of course,
but promised her most earnestly that l
would. A few days after we came to be
acquainted she told me something of
her family affairs. She said that she
been murdered. She seemed apprehen-
sive that some such fate would overtake
her. She never said word against the
Catholic religion, from which she was a
convert. She said she had spent MANY
happy days as religeuSe, but desired
a broader scope for charitable work
than the Seclusion of the 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 had
worked in the cause of Catholicism for
many years with the pen. | honestly be-
lieve that Wednesday Vera Ava left that
carriage with all those valuableS for some
unknown, but perfectly proper, pur
pose. She may have wished to raise
money on her diamonds III furtherance
OF her charitable designs, and adopted
the plan OF passing through the church,
intending to return and rejoin me when
she had got through with her business.
My present honest belief is that she has
been decoyed by some INSCRIPTIONS
villains into safe place, and that she
has been foully robbed and murdered"
1t appears that she also called on
Archbishop Feehan yesterday. The cab
man who drove her there to-day identI-
fed Miss Aya's picture as the woman
in question. He said that. after she en-
tered the cab, he saw her take off
a blonde wig and arrange her hair.
About week ago she visited Mr.. Sad
Ter, the British consul here. and, under
the seal of secrecy, told him remarka-
BILE story, as Mr.. Sadler confesses, but
he declines to give the tenor of it.
She told Mrs. Bolton, with whom she
drove to the archepiscopal residence,
that she was going to see about getting
some property which was in the posses
sion or the Catholic church in England.
She was formerly member of that
church, and, it is said, was once nun.
She evidently deceived Mrs. Bolton, as
the archbishop says his talk with her
was CAOluSlfCly III IGSdlU " lSI WUIk
among the vicious classes in this city
and not of a personal character at all.
She did not mention to the archbishop
the fact that she was an apostate from
the church or make any OVertureS
looking to her return.
1.-The strangest thing about this case"
said Lieut.. Shea tonight, sis that this
Miss Ava, who is written up as fakir,
has refused money from those she inter-
eSted in her charitable work. A caller
at the station to-day, minister, whose
name L promised not to divulge, told me
that charitably inclined church men,
Der offered the woman $1,000, but she
refused 1T, saying she had plenty of
money. The woman had often stated
that goods she shipped from England
had been lost and that she had applied
for duplicate freight certificates. Officers
visited the custom house to-day and
were told that no such woman had been
at the office or applied for duplicate re-
ceiptS."
A curious feature of the mystery is
that Miss Ava is reported to have said
She feared she would meet a fate SINH
lar to that of DR.. CroEin. Father Kelly,
upon whom she called at the Holy
Family church just prior to her disap-
pearance, is the same clergyman the ar
rest of whose brother in st. Louis as
Cronin suspect caused sensation. The
brother was brought to this city in Gus
tOdy, but speedily released, there being
no proof against him.
New YORK, Sept. 11.-Three weeks
ago a number of prominent newspaper
men received letters from Ann O'Delia
Diss De Bar announcing that she was
about to commit suicide. The letters
were dated Taylor's Hotel, Jersey City,
but when the reporters reached that
place the ''high priestess of spookdom"
had departed. She had left her bag
gage mot valuable) behind her, and also
an unpaid hotel bill. Dlligent inquiry
has since failed to bring to light any
trace of her. She had not jumped off of
any ferryboat, and if she departed this
life by any other route, what she did
with her 300-pound body is still an I'M
solved problem. AT one time it was re-
ported that she was living in a Catholic
Institution in Boston, but the report
was never verified.