Arizona weekly citizen., 1894-05-12

PRETTY LAURA JACOBS.
She Starts to EIope But is Still
in Tucson.
Her Lover in Concealment and
Wanted by Cficers-A Mys-
terious Affair.

Laura Jacobs, the seventeen-year-ol(
daughter of Washington N. Jacobs, tht
assayer, has been asked after by he
friends a thousand times since last Fri
day. Theories other whereabouts have
been given OF elopment, seduction ant
suicide. 1t now tranepires that she II
the subject of a mysterious affair, bu
was seen on the streets of Tucson yes
terdsy, bright as peach, and not at al
dead from the effects of laudanum sup
posed to have been administered by
Rudolfo Vasquez, her lover.
She was crossed in love by her pa
rents. Believing her judgment better
than theirs che left home last Friday
afternoon. Since then deligent search
hss been made, day and night, tele.
graphing has been done, theories have
been made and exploded, but still Miss
Jacobs is not to be found.
The trouble of Ru6olfo Vasquez, sew
| eral months, when he was charged with
saking $50 from a fellow lodger in the
Vepdome, will be recalled by CITIZEN
%, ders. Vasquez was not held, there
not >eing s Sufficient evidence, although
h., had money he did not well account
v.sonez had prior to the money
tronhi, bean ebowing attention to Miss
Jacobs. VIII. 'e protesting to doubt
Vasonez,s omit ar. Jacobs was dis
pleased with The 7manly way in which
Vasquez submitted y |'thout attempt at
proof of innocence, ana 1oroia Din Tue
entree of the Jacobs cine loitu WI
That was months ago. Rudojfo Vas
quez disappeared, but was osafo from
from time to time as being in NogaieS'
at the Reward mine and at Phi, 'enlx III
some kind of insurance commissiC o Dus-
mess. A few weeks ago he return, II 10
Tucson, showing himself very little.
HE APPLIED FOR LICENSE.
About the time he reached here he |
before Probate Judge Wood |
and applied for license for his mar
rage TO Miss Laura Jacobs. Judge |
Woods learned that the young lad.y was |
under eighteen-tbe ege of consent ID |
told the young man that |
be would first see Mr.. jacobs
Mr.. Jacobs was very glad to hear that |
Judge Wood refused the license, and |
emphatically enGorss d MS acton. IL |
urprlsed the girls parents, however, to |
learn that she was still on good terms |
with VasqueZ, for they had supposed |
otherwise.
Love laughs at locksmiths, and so it |
does at common sense and parental wis |
dom and protection and other old-fash- |
Toned virtues that even the young la |
dies OF this advanced age should re-
THE LAST NOTE. |
Notes we're exchanged continually.
The last was last Friday afternoon, the
4th Of MAY. Her mother had gone out
TO give a music lesson. 1t was a good
opportunity. She told little sister she
vas going TO spend the afternoon with
Girl friend, where her parents were en-
tirely willing she should be. She told
a DeIghbor that she was going to
Nogalea, Sonora, in Buggy then wait
ng for her In the valley, with Rodolfo
Vaequez, to be married to him there.
She said she could be mar ried there, If
rot i'll Arizona. And that if she were
70 lowed she would shoot he rself. Will
at the Reward mine Vasquez tod man
there he Vas going to Tucson, and that
he snd Miss Jacobs would die together.
Evening came and no Laura. The
band gave concert that night and the
parents supposed their daughter at the
park. They did not see her at the park
up to o'clock and they concluded she
had gone home. So they retursed
home, but stall no Laura. They then
went to the home of the girl friend, ana
reused them from sleep to get the
astonishing and alarming tidipgs that
Laura was not there, now had been
seen that day. On their return in came
the neigh Dor with tie word of the pro-
posed elopment.
For day or two the parents were
merely mortified at the runaway match
their daughter had made. They did
no telee IA phIng to Sonora TO see it she
had arrived safely. That they took for
granted. Then came word that Vnsquez
WIS in town the Saturday night follow
ing. His landlord went to Vasquez's
room and dunned his tenant for his
rent. Vesquez acted much alarmed,
and came out OF the room in half
dazed condition.
To the landlord nothing was known of
the disappearance of the girl, so he
merely left Vasquez where be was, with
the promise of pay the next day.
LAUDANUM IN THE ROOM.
When Laura Jacobs left home she
took no extra apparel. She wore a
black unGerskirt among others of her
garb. Next morning the landlord came
for his rent, and found the room desert.
ed and in a tum bier OF the stand was a
little laudanuu,, some of it evidently
gone. On the floor was the bottom of a
black skirt declared by Mrs. jacobs
to be part of the underskirt worn by
Laura the Friday she went away.
Vasquez gone. 1t was largely for his
benefit that the news Of his doings has
been withheld by the CITIZEN. The
officers wanted to capture him, il
POSSIBLE. They have searched for him
day and night. Sheriff Scott was on
the search up to IL o'clock Monday
night, and Chief-of Police Paul was
still searching at this morning. The
sheriff and deputies, constabes and
police are all on the lookout for him.
Rodolfo Vasquez, SIX feet tell, with high
square shoulders, long legs and hand
some black eyes.