The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-06-30
REFORMER SHERMAN.
Como With Pretty Mrs. woolley
Also o Temperance Reformer.
SHE F0RSOOE Her CHILDREN

perance RefoFlncr, Statesman and
insurance PROTECTOR -somc Peculiar
Circumstances.
NSw York, Juuo Colonel" Ward
B. Sherman, of Texas and Iowa, tenn
parancs rsformer, statesman and insur-
dncs protector, myuteriously dropped
out Of eight in Nrw York about six
weeks rso, and his relatives out West
are making anxious inquiries about
him.
Mrs. W. W. woollcy, blonde, young
and handsome, and also temperance re-
former, whom tho gallant and expan-
sive Colonel" used to favor With a
great deal of his company, has also dis
appeared, and it Is singular that she left
her Nat and hsrchildrcn aboht the ssse
time that the "Colonel" left tho Park
Avenue Hotel, where he had been stay
ing, mo-S or less, daring the winter.
OF course, it is quito possible that the
"Coloncl" went In one direction and
the charming Mrs. Woollcy in another,
but thors were some things about. the
relations between the Colonel and the
Woolcys that have made the people at
No. liz East Thirty. second street, where
tho Woolleya used 10 live, speculate and
talk a good deal during the last six
weeks.
INSURANCE AND TEMPERANCE.
SIr. Woollcy was an insurance pro-
jector himself and recently set aaoat a
concern called the Mutual Insurance
and Investment Company, organized
on the plan of the bond companies
which tho papers exposed last winter.
Colonel Sherman had been in the in
surance business and had known Wool
ley when he was canvasser for the
Mutual Life Company, SO the two got to
be very friendly during the winter.
They had another bond Of common in
tcrest in their Temperance affiliations.
"Colonel" Sherman was an old temper
ance campaigner and belonged to Cos
mopolitan Lodge, Order OF Good Tenn
plars, which meets in the Metropolitan
Opera House lodge rooms. Mrs. Wool
ley was q bright and shining light in
the same lodge, while Mr.. Woolleyshed
forth his own rays in Prohibition Lodge
of the same order, which meets in upper
Broadway.
UNDER ASSUMED NAMES.
"Colonel" sherman's permanent resi-
dence, if he has one, is not known.
When he came to the Park Avenue
Hotel he registered as an. H. Sharp,
Providence" and at his subsequent
visits to the note, which were frequent,
he invariably appeared under some
assumed name or other. His practice
was to stay at the hotel for three or
four days and then go away, none knew
whittier. He was large, heavy-set, inn
pressive-looking gentleman, with q
mien OF great dignity, a heavy orotund
voice, long hair, a low-cut vest Il great
deal Of shirt front and SLOUGH hat. lie
was about fifty-fve years old.
During the month OF February the
people in the apartment house where
the Woolleys lived, which is only half a
block from the hotel, noticed that the
"Colonel" was very frequent visitor
at the Woolley flat. He and Mrs. Wool
ley used to go out n great deal in the
evening, presumably to address tenn
perance meetings. Mr.. Woolley was
away from home sometimes for days at
a time and then Colonel Sherman used
to console the wife thus left to her own
diversions by taking her out to dinners
and drives and being very assiduous in
his attentions.
Mrs. Woolley had two children, girl
aged twelve and boy aged eight, and
what called tho neighbors' particular ut
tention to her was that when she went
out with the Colonel she used to leave
the children for Mrs. Myers, who lives
in the basement OF the house, to take
care Of. Sometimes Mrs. Woolley didn't
come back Just when she said shewould
by day or two, and as Mrs. Myers had
to assume mothers place to the chill
drcn 1t made people talk.
so THEY Disappeared.
The Colonel and Mrs. Woolley contin-
ued to be more and more in each others
company until about April II. Then
Mrs. Woolley arranged with Mrs. Myers
to take care of the children for few
DAYS while she went to the country to
SEQ about the furnishing OF house she
had hired there. Then she went away.
On or about the same day the Colonel
paid his bill at the Park Avenue and
also departed.
Mr.. Woolley was out of town Just
then. His charming wife did not come
back in "a few days" but at the end OF
week Mr.. Woolley appeared, sold all
his furniture, took the children and
likewise faded away. The Mutual In
surance and Investment Company had
in the meantime died the death.
Nothing has since been heard OF the
movements of any of the actors in this
little drama. Last week Mr.. Earle, the
proprietor Of the Parl; Avenue, got
letter from Colonel shermqn's brother
James, who lives at Waterloo, Iowa,
begging for information as to what had
become of the Colonel and asked II Mr..
Earle had heard OF any trouble or mis-
fortune which had befallen the missing
man. But Mr.. Earle could throw no
light on the mystery.
Mr.. Woolley is said to be at present
maintaining existence as nm employe Of
a Coney Island resort. Nothing is said
as to where Mrs, Woolley is or how she
is maintaining existence.
ANOTHER SHERMAN, PERHAPS.
There used to be Ward b. Sherman
who lived in Davenport, Iowa, and who