The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1891-09-14
The Woman Who Hysteriously Disap.
peared from Chicago Wednesday
Found In Cincinnati.
She Tells Strange Story and Accuses
Chicago Priests of kidnapping
Her.
Her Resemblance to Madam Dis de Bar
so Striking They Are Believed to
BE The same Person.

CINCINNATI, Sept. IA. Miss Vera Ava
who mysteriously disappeared from
Chicago Wednesday evening, about /!
o'clock, hailed cab from the sidewalk
at Ninth and Elm streets, and ordered
the driver to take her to the st. Nichola.
hotel. She Wore black wooden skirt
was in her stocking feet, and without q
hat. From her waist to above he,
shoulders her body was bare. The de.
tective force took her case in hand. and
removed her at once to the House OF
Detention. Examination there revealed
the fact that she had not cent OF
money and not scrap of paper ON her
person, and Sat all her effects were her
black dress and her stockings. She
readily told her story to- every one
who was willing to listen. There is
scarcely a doubt but that she is the no.
torious Ann O'Delia Diss de Bar, of
asiritualistic fame. When asked if she
was Mime. Diss de Bar she waved her
fat arm and dramatically replied: This
is madness, my good sir. I never saw
the woman. Do / look like her?' The
description of this woman who calls her.
self Vera Ava tallies in every particular
with that of the famous high priestess
OF the spooks. who created such scan.
dial in New York few years ago. She
was taken to police headquarters during
the morning and
Told the Following story
to the superintendent: Last Wednes-
day called on Archbishop Feehan in
Chicago in reference to my renouncing
the work had been engaged in for
yays, and after an unsatisfactory inter-
view he asked me to go to the Church Of
me Holy Family on West Twelfth
street, Father Kelly's church. as the
council would meet there that evening.
/ persuaded Mrs. Bolton, wife of the
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to accompany me, and without
changing the horses in my carriage (my
own carriage and horses) we drove i'm
mediately to Father Kelly's church, ar
irving there at 6:15 o'clock. instructed
my coachman to turn the carriage to the
east and to wait for me. stepped into
Father Kelly's study and there found
the council in session. There We're eight
or nine of them, and among them were
Father Fitzgerald and Chancellor Null
doom. The others did not recognize.
After recapitulation of old business
was asked to renounce my mission busi-
ness and the faith of DIR. Bottoms relig-
ion, Methodism, and / was given the
ultimatun of doing this or taking the
consequences. Seeing the American flag
outside, left from Labor Day, my stall
wart coachman and my friend Mrs.
Bolton, refused and felt perfectly safe
in so doing. Then Father Kelly said
DO your duty, and two big strong men,
one of them Father Fitzgerald, seized
me and threw cloak over my head,
after which / remembered nothing until
Ifound mpself in Cincinnati. They say
went into the church to pray do they?
Anyone who knows anything about this
church will know that could not 60
from Father Kelly's study into the
church"
Miss Ava was then returned to the
House of Detention, where she will re-
main until her friends in Chicago are
heard from.
FeeIaan and Kelly Greatly yexed. -
CHICAGO, Sept. Ia. - Archbishop
Feehan is greatly vexed at the attempt
of Miss Ava to connect him and ths
Catholic priests of this city with hel
sensational escapade. She called on him
several times, and he received her as h
would receive any one who comes dur
ing certain hours of the day. She die
not say who she was and the archbishop
asked no references. "As to her charg
against Fathers Kelly and Fitzgerald,
continued the archbishop, lit is to,
ridiculous to command second thought
On the face of it no one would believe it
and it is so absurd that cannot evel
discuss it,"
Father Kelly said Miss Ava's stor.
story was a falsehood. When the womal
called on him Wednesday evening, a
she had many times. before, he hstene
because he did not wish to be rude. FL
took no interest In her stories, becaus
he believed her to be d crank. After re
naming in Father Kelly's study fe,
moments Miss Ava asked permission I
go into the church through the sid
entrance from the parlors. This wa
granted and that was the last the pries
saw of Miss Ava.
Mrs. Bolton, who accompanied Mis-
Ava to the church, said during the da
that the newspaper cuts Of Ann O'Deli
Diss de Bar looked like Miss Ava an
she believed the ''spook priestessH an
Miss Ava were one and the same.
Plotting to Release Almy.
BOSTON, Sept. IA. "A special fro