The Forrest City times., 1891-09-18
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CINCINNATI O.. Sept. lS.-Miss Q. Yora Ava has been positively identi. 1ed e the notorious 'spook priestess," Q1as DeBar. She now refuses to see 6ny ono, although she was interviewed h number of times this morning by the Shief of police. To hlm she stuck to her story of abduction and preserved . nonchalant air. She remains at the house of detention, as there b no other place for her to go.
 6. Vera Ava and Editha Lolita Ann oDelia Diss Dc Bar arc one and the oome person. If there were any doubt e this dispatch received by Chief e3 Police McClaughry from Inspector 8yrnes of the New York police this @ornlug would settle it. This dis patch gives description of Diss Dc Bar which tallies to dot with that of Vera AyA The dispatch is as follows:
 NHw YoRK, Sept. 12.-R. w. Me- Qaughry, General Superintendent o1 Police: Tho present whereabouts of the Diss DeBar woman are unknown. She is about 43 years of age, is 5 feet 3 inches high, very broad, weight was about 27o pounds when last seen here, which was some months ago. Her complexion is sallow and her features very coarse. She has large mouth, a double chin, and a scar In the Aharo of a crescent on tho cheek bono under the eye. She has hair sprinkled with gray, and sometimes wears wig. Usually she wears cloak. She has a swaggering walk. She speaks with a slight English accent and can also speak Q little French. She is rather sympa- thetic in her conversation. She pre- tends to be a spiritualist and has tried to pass herself off as a nun. Tho 4ctions of the woman reported missing in your city are very much like those of Diss DeBar. We have no photo kraph of her. The Boston Police News ef May, 1Y, 1888, had a good picture of her. THOMAS BYRNEs,
 Chief Inspector of Police.
 So much for 8 description of Diss DeBar. As to Miss Ava, she speaks with decided English accent. Vice. Consul Sadler says that when he ohanged his conversation from English to French. Miss Ava responded in that language. Different people who saw AM1 Ava give different estimates of her weight, one saving 200 pounds. another that she weighed 2i0 pounds, and others that she weighed more. Considcring that few people can ''size up' the weight of 8 woman weighing o6O pounds within fifty pounds of her correct weight; that more or less dress Enkes difference, and that Diss De- Bars weight of 270 pounds was when ahe was in the heydey of her prosper Sfy, tho variance can be account ed for without stretching . point. The same applies to a slight variation 1m estimates of her age.
 Miss Ava has hair sprinlxled with gray. She also wore . wig-a blonde 3ne generally, and like Disa DeBar it was her habit to frequently take 1t of when she thought she was not ob- oerved. The last point is that con- Serning the scar on her cheek and the hole on her Jaw. It was said by those who scoffed at the mere idea of Miss Ava being Diss DeBar that Niss Ava had 8 scar on her cheek and mole oa her jawbone, while Diss DeBar had no such decisive blemishea Inspector Byrnes testi- 6ony that Diss DeBar had these de- zects should, 1t would seem, be taken in preference to the testimony of per sons who saw her only infrequently, and then without the keen practice of observation which leaves no mark un- noticed and which is the business of the chief of the New York police In- epector Byrnes says Diss DeBar haa coarse features It was noted beyond every other impression by Chief Me Claughry's son, Secretary Perkins, and Others who saw Miss Ava when she called to interview Maj. McClaughry, that her features were coarse to mas culinity, invoking the paradoxical ex- clamatlon by young McClaughry: "That woman's man" So common were the facial lines of Miss Ava that the de- tectives at once put her down as the prcprietress of some house of ill-fame. 10 is also part of the recordA of the celebrated Marsh case that Diss DeBar was addicted to the use of opium and morphine. The appearance of Miss Ava in Cincinnati and her story of imprisonment by Chicago Catho- 1ic clergy, which was pure fiction of the imagination in dicated that she had partaken copiously of one or the other of these drugs. That Miss Ava did not disclose one of Diss DeBarr's most stdistinguished traits, that of taking money where aver she could get it ispointed to as the best evidence that Miss Ava is not Diss Dollar, but as to that the Mingays, with whom Miss Ava boarded, say that she received great numbers of letters, and from one of them, while she was at the breakfast table, a SEQ bill dropped onto her plate Mrs. Edith Bingham, the New York newspaper woman, credited with recognizing Miss Ava as Diss De- Bar, was said to have merely stated her suspicious that she was the spook priestess She did more than that She saw her in the Chicago post office and positively identified her as Lawyer Marsh's entrancer. Among the possessions of Miss Ava found in Cincinnati. consisting chiefly of nswspaper clippings, also was found spiritualistic cipher. Niss Ava while in Chicago never Npoks of her spirltualistic procli vities, Gut IS she used them only to defrsud ehe prohe ebly refrained from working 5he perticular scheme of spirit writing.
 1T Na6s Ava is not Diss De Bar she is her double. If she departed in Chicago from her usual methods there may have been good reasons for it.