St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-12
MISS AVA IS FOUND.
Vera or Ann O'Delia Is in Gin
cinnati and in Hard
Fortune.
Found on the Street Almost
Naked and Tells Fairy
Stories.
VI. B. Curtis Is Charged With
Murder in San Fran
cisco.
The Crime Resulted From a
Drunken Spree, Followed
by Arrest.

CINCINNATI, Sept. L. Miss Vera
iva, if her own testimony is to be cred
ted, is here in the Cincinnati house of
detention. She is a rather large woman,
apparently thirtY-eight years old, has
light blue eyes and rather closely
cropped hair, we'll sprinkled with gray.
She talks sometimes nationally and at
times incoherently. She says her
name is Vera Ava, that her native
place is London, and that lately
she has been in Chicago and
somebody brought her from there to
this place, but who, or when she was
brought she seems unable to tell.
1t was nearly o o'clock tonight when
this woman, from the sidewalk at Ninth
and Elm streets, hailed a cabman and
got on his cab and ordered him to drive
to the st. Nicholas. She wore a black
wooden dress, was in her stocking feet
and was without hat. From her waist
to above her shoulders
Her BOdy Was Bare.
The st. Nicholas, the Burnett and the
Gibson house all refused to receive her.
At the Gibson the detective took her
case in baud and removed her at once
" Tie lOuSC Vi u6ItHIlO0. EXd0lllla-
tlOn there revealed the fact that she
had not cent of money or scrap of
paper on her person, and that all her eff
fectS were her black dress and stock
ings. The police have been unable to
discover how she got here. When
she was asked about 1T she would
say: II come from behind gray stone
wall and went up hill, but they pushed
me down wherever | went up. and then
the clouds laughed, and the little stars
bumped their heads together" No
thing satisfactory can be learned from
her. She SAID she had been at 800 OF
40 West Monroe street, Chicago Some
officers think her insanity is feigned.
1t is surmiSed here in certain quarters
that she is the late Dis De Bar, of New
York.
Chicago Don't Want Her.
CHICAGO, Sept. 11.-Sergeant Cud-
more, in charge of the Central police
station, tonight received this telegram
from the chief of police, Cincinnati:
r. A. MCCLAUGHRY-We have Miss Vera
Ava, residing 34S Monroe street. Has no bag
gage Answer what to do with her.
PHILIP DIETscH.
Sergeant Cudmore at once wired back
the following:
Philip Dietsch: Release Miss Vera Ava
L.
The only effect of the Cincinnati
telegram" remarked the sergeant as he
tucked it away in pigeon hole of his
desk, us to satisfy our curiosity as to
Miss Vera'S whereabouts. We have no
charge against her, and hence cannot
order her arrest"
A Shady Yarn.
A reporter of the Associated Press
has heard Vera Ava's story from her
own lips. She told her story consecu-
lively in elegant language. BY way of
introduction she said she was a Roman
Catholic and was starting homes for
homeless, degraded children in Chicago.
Then she said this displeased Archbish-
OPP Feehan and he ordered her to nun
merry. She refused to go, and then he
ordered her to appear before a council
at the Jesuit College church Oh Twelfth
street last Wednesday. She went in her
carriage. Mrs. Bolton. of No. 443 West
Monroe street, was with her, and Tom
was the driver of the carriage. Tom
and Mrs. Bolton waited outside.
Archbishop Feehan and Father Ed
win Kelly were present. They pre-
scented her paper to sign, which she
refused to do, saying that as prosnect-
i've American citizen she meant to use
her money as she pleased. Thereupon
rdlner nelly arose anG said: This has
gone far enough" and at that moment
two men came in at the side door and
threw cloth over her head. After that
She Knew Nothing
more until she felt as if she was on the
. lake. She thinks that was last night
and that she had been overdosed with
chloroform and water was applied as
restorative. The next she remembers
she thinks about o'clock to-day when
she was taken from the depot in a car
riage to a certain place in this city
though she did not know what
city it was. Here she stopped with her
story and went to pralsing the kindness
she received at the house of detention
in being allowed to remain in the office
and not in the cell. When asked
'Were you turned loose on the streets?''
she replied spiritedly, mo. indeed: l
escaped, and tomorrow l will show
Chief Deitsch what house they took me
to-" and here her narrative ended.
She said, however, that previous to
Wednesday she had received an anony-
nous letter, threatening that she would
be treated as DR.. CroGin had been. This
she took to the chief in Chicago, but she
did not leave. She was asked by tele-
phone later if she was Dis DeBar, and
she said, mo, sir; she is feshy
woman, has fair skin and short, curly.
blonde hair that comes down on her
forehead to her eyeS''