The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-26
DOLLY DAVIS DOUBLE.
The Actress Looks On Her Dead
Counterpart and Faints.
THE SIGHT TOO MUCH FOR Her.
The Dead and the Living Look so
Much Alike that While Dolly was
in swoon She Could not be Told
from the suicide---Even their Cloth
ing was similar--.Tarrytown's OIys-
terry.

NEW YORK. June 2O.-AlysleTy sur
rounds the death Of the fair girl who
was fished out of the Hudson River at
Crotou Landing,
No one has claimed her body. Only
one person, private detective, has even
sought to identify her.
She lay at Undertaken vanderbilts in
Tarrytown in u casket covered with
flowers sent by sympathetic villagers,
among them Miss Berkeley, principal
Of the Berkeley Seminary.
1t was not until Hiss Dollie Davis,
the actress, jumped from the train at
Tarrytown that the inhabitants of the
town would believe that it was not she
who lay in the coffin. Now they realize
they have mystery in town, and Coro-
ner Sutton is awakening to the fact that
the mystery has got three days start
on him.
Miss Davis arrived in this city from
Coney Island. She at once went to the
Office of her agents, Randall & Dickson,
at No. ll45 Broadway. Before she
reached the office she was joined by
several OF her friends, and she talked to
them in the highest OF spirits. She
was neatly clad in purple dress OF
precisely the same shade as that worn
BY the suicide. Upon her arrival at
the Office she Immediately closed her
engagement for the tour next season
OF a Castles in the Air" company.
After some other business had been
transacted her friends suggested that
she 60 to Tarrytown, and not only view
the body, but ease the minds OF her ac-
quaiutances who still believed she was
dead.
At this time Miss Davis weakened,
saying she did not want any more noto-
ricty. She finally became rcconciled,
and, accompanied by Professor William
Blakeney and Thomas Butler, she de-
parted on the 1880 train. a telegram
had been sent to Coroner Sutton notify
ing him of the coming of Miss Davis.
The news spread rapidly, and long be-
fore the train was due the station was
crowded with people. There were not
many people on the train, and almost
the first ones to alight were Miss Davis
and her friends. As she reached the
platform there was craning OF necks
and suppressed cheer. Miss Davis
smiled Mt the greeting and ran nimbly
to waiting carriage. She was driven
at once 10 the undertaker's on Main
street. The body lay in an ice box,
draped in heavy black cloth, in the
upper end of the room, and for few
minutes Miss Davis asked Il few COM
monplace questions concerning the
dead girl. She seemed nervous, and
acted as il she wanted to put the inspec-
ton Off as long as possible. Finally she
scented to regain control OF her nerves,
and walked towardithe bier, accom-
panied by those present. As her gaze
met the upturned white face beneath
the glass plate, she shivercd and said:
The poor girl. I'm SO sorry"
Then she looked again Mt the face;
this time longer. Suddenly she reeled,
and throwing her arms wildly about,
exclaimed: Take me awayW
The senseless girlwas carried upstairs
into Mrs. Vanderbilts apartments. As
she lay there on the bed with that
peculiar deathlike whiteness on her
face, and her eyes closed, the resem-
blance between the two was more than
startling, and had the dead girl that
moment been placed beside her, it
would have been impossible to disttn-
guish them. :,
1.-THE poor, poor girl! am SO sorry"
We're the first words she uttered when
she regaiRed consciousness. Shortly
after Miss Davis had finished luncheon
sac submitted to an interview.
"In the first place" said she, Since
the Ship Alloy company disbanded l
have been living quietly at Coney
Island. Although the identity of the
poor girl is still unknown, there can be
no mistake about the letters. Some
people have stated in interviews that
they received letters from Dollie Davis,
postotIice address Coney Island, asking
Tor assistance. Now, never sent any
such letters, and l have found that
there is no other Dolhe Davis stopping
on the island. The statement about
those letters is absolutely untrue"
During tho afternoon the body was
photographed, and copies OF the like
ness will be furnished to- every official
in the State. Chief of Police Rossiter
has already begun to make inquiries
throughout the adjacent towns,
As the news spread that the dead girl
was not Dollie Davis, many people who
had not yet seen the body viewed it,
hoping to identify it.. Until late last
night there was steady stream OF
callers, but not one could say more
than that she looked very much like