Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1891-09-12
The Alleged Abduction of the Strange
Chicago Woman.
GERMANY IN CONDITION FOR WAR
San Salvador Awaiting Destruction
by Earthquake.
COTTON PICKERS BIG STRIKE
VERA AvA's STORY.
She Relates q Startling Narrative Of Alleged
Abduction.

sne neiates q startling Narrative OF Alleged
Abduction.
CINCINNATI. ONO, Sept IA representa-
tive of the Associated Press has heard Vera
Aya's story from her own lips. She told her
story fuently and consecutively in elegant
language. By way of introduction she said she
was koman Catholic and was starting four
homes Tor homeless degraded children in Chi
cago. Then she said this displeased Archbishop
Feehan and he ordered her to a nunnery.
She refused to go anu then lac ordered her TO
appear before a council at the Jesuit College
Church on last Wednesday. She went in
her carriage. Mrs. Bolton, ABS West Monroe
street. was with her, and Tom was the driver
OF the carriage. Tom and Mrs. Bolton in the
carriage waited outside.
Archbishop Feehan and Father Edwin Kelly
were present. They presented her a paper to
slgn which she refused to do. saving that as a
prospective American citizen she meant TO use
her money as she pleased. Ihereupon Father
belly arose and said this had gone far enous h,
and at that moment two men came in at a side
door and threw a cloth over her face.
Alter that she knew nothing more until she
felt as II she was on the lake. She thinks that
was last night and that she had been overdosed
with chloroform and water was applied a
restorative. The next she remembers was she
thinks. about o'clock yesterday afternoon,
when she was taken from the depot In car
rlaGe to certain place in this city, though she
DID not then know what city it was.
here she stopped with her story and went TO
pralsinS 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
street! she replied spiritedly. mo, indeed:
escaped, and L will show Chief Leitsch what
house they took me to, and here her narrative
ended
She said, however. that previous to Wednes-
day she had received an ANONYMOUS letter
threatening that she would be treated as DIR.
Cronin had been. This she took to the chief
IN chicago, but he was not in and she did not
leave it.
DENIES SHE rs DIss DE BAR.
Miss Ava" spent the night at the house of
detention She told her story to every one
who willing to listen. There is scarcely a
doubt that she is the notorious Ann Odelis hiss
de Bar of spiritualistic fame. When asked if
she was Madame Diss de Bar she waved her fat
arm and dramatically replied: THAT is mad
ness my good sir madness. ' never saw the
woman. Do l look like her?"
The description of this woman who calls her
self Vera Ava tallies in every par ticular with
that OF the famous high priestess of the spooks,
who created such a scandal in New York few
years ago. She was taken to police headuuar-
tiers this morning and told her story to the
superintendent: Miss Ava was then returned
to the house Of detention, where she Will re-
main until her friends in Chicago are heard
from.
CHICAGO, Sept. 12.-The wife of the Rev. DIR.
Bolton, who Is well acquainted with Miss Vera
Ava, the alleged philanthropist who disap-
peared IN this city on Wednesday night aud
who reappeared in Cincinnati last night gives
the following description OF her:
MRS. BoLroN's DESCRIPTION OF MISS AVA.
Under left eye, to the left almost as far as
the cheek bone. is a scar as large and about
ne Of Il
able, and looks as though it had been gouged.
The skin Is not discolored. but the scar is a
deep one. On the right cheek, and Just below
the line OF the mouth, Is a mole, in which is a
considerable growth of hair. Her eyes are
blue, with lashes light Her hair is false. i
know this because she displaced her wig when
removing her bonnet at one time when we were
together. She said that her weight WAS
2O2 pounds, but l think she weighed
more. She wears a No. 5 shoe but
can wear smaller one. She did not
button the one on the left foot as she was suf-
ferlng from a sprained ankle. Her hands we're
large and stocky, the fingers heavy and all of
the same size. The hands were masculine and
coarse looking. L saw picture of Mme Diss
de Bar and think Miss Ava could rig herself to
look like her."
Mrs. Bolton was sure that Miss Ava used
whisky. She detected it ia her breath Ann
ODella was addicted to the use of kentucky
whisky. She was born In Kentucky and at
one time all her troubles were attributed to
the fact that she had changed" from the
Kentucky tipple to champagne
Lieut. Shea this morning said he would tele-
graph Chief Dietsch Of the Cincinnati police TO
have Miss Ava examined as to her sanity.
III she is insane" said he, "she will be
placed in an insane asylum. If she is sane the
police VIII turn her out. We don't want the
woman, be she Miss Ava or Diss de Bar 1 in
tend to telegraph Inspector Byrnes 70 learn
where the Diss de Bar woman is"