Mexico weekly ledger., 1896-07-09
A Mexico Girl.
ADA WALLACE Is RECEIVING A
GOOD DEAL OF ATTENTION
FROM NEWSPAPERS.
Her Military Wedding a Surprise
Some Facts Concerning the
Groom-His Second
Marriage.

Ada Wallace, of Mexico, in spite of
the extraordinary demand made of
the newspapers at this time by poll
tics, is receiving a good deal of atten-
ton by the newspapers of Missouri.
Ada "worked out" in Mexico and was
considered a very ordinary cook, but
seems to have developed into quite a
sensation, to say the least, when she
swooped down on st. Louis, where
her talent seems to have been ap-
preclated. Referring to her "military
wedding" Gas Sam Jones calls such
%atfairs) with Jackson, the Hannibal
Journal says:
edward p. Jackson, a resident of
ST. Louis and until go days ago travel
ing representative of the National
Building and Loan Association, offices
| 619 Union Trust Building, is under ar
rest at Mexico, Mo-, charged with the
abduction of 16-year-o old Ada Wallace.
jackson came to work for us last
fall" said A. G. Marshall, Secretary
OF the Loan Association. "He was in
our employ until about go days ago,
when we were forced to discharge
him.
ellis unbusiness-I methods and
irresponsible conduct were the causes.
Jackson was a periodical drinker. He
would go to towns, get on a spree and
then run up bills we would have to
pay.
eve had to advance him commits
sions before they were earned to start
him again, and he gave us any amount
of trouble.
Probably another reason instru-
mental in his discharge is that we
heard he was married. When jack
son came to work for us he represent
ed himself as a single man.
I'VE knew nothing to the contrary
until he became too persistent in his
attention to u young lady cashiers.
They had a friend, s~tenographer in a
bank, who knew Jackson. She told
them he had married a girl In Green
vile, Ill. I also understand his moth
er lives at Greenville."
"The Charles A. Everett, spoken of
by jackson, is still in our employ. L
don't believe he is in any way impli- |
Gated in this affair. Everett is an es-
Unable man and has our confidence.
To me it looks like Jackson implicated
him tor revenge. Everett and Jack
son were formerly great friends.
When Everett became fully cognizant
of the others actions he cut away from
hina entirely. That made Jackson
mad and he followed Everett around
'to do him up l heard
they did come together once at Han
nibal.
Everett is now travelling in Central
Missouri. Jackson ! have heard little
of since he left us, but l understood
he brought Ada Wallace here from
Mexico"
The st. Louis police will have some
thing to say regarding Miss Ada Wal
lace.
From evidence in the possession of
Deceive Fox, Miss Wallace is a cham
She is said to be the same
.ecna Willis, alias Morris, alias Moore,
who robbed E. G. Graulich, of 1919
Vista, Friday. Graulich needed a
lousekeeper, and met Ada Wallace on
Jefferson and Chestnut. She was then
Leona Willis. He hired her. Last
morning she produced a tele-
gram reading:
"Father is dangerously i'll; come
home. MOTHER"
1t was one she had written her
mother to send.
Mr.. Graulich loaned her SIS. He re-
aimed the telegram.
The housekeeper left the house
bout 10 a. M, but prior thereto, a
urniture wagon drove up and under
Erection of the girl, the driver loaded
$50 worth of Graulich's furniture into
he wagon and drove away.
The police had no clew to Leona
except the telegram. Probably
hey would still be in the dark but for
|aeEson's arrest and the subsequent
about the telegram sent
" the girls mother.
After the Wallace girl came to st.
4ouis she fell in with w. Clark Jewell,
young man well known for several
unsuccessful theatrical ventures. ,
Jewell fell in love with the girl and ,
ook her to Dollie Browns resort on
chestnut. :
After the girl had been there a day !,
r two Jewell went to the Brown :
7oman and offered to buy out the .
house" and put Ada in charge. a
After a great deal of quarreling over /
he price, 800 was agreed on, which {
ewell promised to pay in one week. !
Three days later, before he had
aid any money on the purchase 4
g got into a fight with the Brown .
roman and was arrested. I
In the Second District Police Court f
Q was fined $40. The Brown woman
ppeared as a witness against him and II
aid that the Wallace girl had often
Did her that her father lived in Mex
20, where he was a well known grocer $
nd that she had known Jewell for t
ome time. At that time Ada Wallace a
as described al being a small, pretty '
runstte.
After the fight she went to live on
street.
Tho Brown woman's house was .
losed by a constable about three L
'eeks ago. b
The st. Louis Chronicle gives the !,
blowing as the ''latest develop :
d
E. @. Graulich, 431s Vista, is still a
the largest portion of his house. v
Did furniture. He returned Tuesday a
ON Mexico, Mo-, where he located n
is fair housekeeper, Leona Willis, n
thergise Ada Wallace. I'll
How she explained the removal of Il
employers household goods is
DIT known. GrauIich ia ~sfrapaatz al 4,