The evening times., 1896-10-14
L00k|NGF0RA||CH WOMAN
Mrs. Mary Titus Very Much
Wanted i4, New York.
WHEREABOUTS, NOT KNOWN
Looked Out of Her Room inn Boarding
House, and In Her Trunk Was
Found Considerable Money, Bank
Checks and Deeds to Valuable Real
Estate-Refuses to Give Address.

New York, oct. 14.-From three known
| sources, aud presumably from several un-
known ones, come requests for the address
| of Mrs. Mary A. B. Titus, a rich and remark
| ably eccentric woman, sixty five years of
| age.
Mrs. NJ. NJ. Smith. of No. 81 West Forty
ninth street. wants to find Mrs. Titus to
| turn over to her n trunk, a check for 800
aud n pocketbook. containing $155 in cash,
| together with various articles of wearing
| apparel found in the trunk.
The Lincoln Bank wants to find Mrs
Titus because she has on deposit there
| 5000, which has been to her credit for
some two years without being disturbed
or without any evidence having come 10 the
authorities of the bank that Mrs. Titus is
either living or dead.
| The building department of the city Of
Brooklyn wants Mrs. Titus address to in
| form her that the brick building ON Wash
| ington street, between the Columbia Tbeatcr
aud the postoffice, a structure for which
the government once offered her S1OO 900,
aud which offer she refused, is crumbling TO
pieces and must be repaired at once.
HER LARGE WHITE TRUNK.
The search that has been going on for
the eccentric woman was brought to Light
| by visit which Mrs. NJ. NJ. Smith paid
| To Magistrate Deuel. at Yorkville court late
Wednesday afternoon. Mrs. Smith con.
ducts boarding house at No. ia West
| Forty-ninth street. She told the magistrate
| that about two years ago woman, no
| appeared to be sixty years old. plainly but
neatly dressed, and altogether very pros
| porous looking, engaged board at her house,
| giving her nainc as Mary A b. Titus.
She brought with her u large white trunk.
| securely strapped aud tied. 1t soon
| became evident that the new boardcr was
a faddist. She would. according to Mrs.
| Smith. handle all of the spoons aud silver
| ware on the table. and a IL of the bread on the
| plate before her. and do various things that
annoyed the iandiady.
At the end OF the second week as Mrs.
| Titus had not paid her bill. Mrs. Smith
| locked her nut of the room which she had
| been occupying, and kept her big trunk as
| security.
The trunk Was thrown about Mrs. Smiths
house as piece OF rubbish. and has been
very much in the twey. On Tuesday Mrs.
Smith. during a general housecleaning. de
termined to open it andssee If IL Contained
| anything of value. The trunk was doubly
| strapped and tied and reticd with heavy
twine and ropes, knotted at almost every
place where IL was possible to add security
to the strappinS. -s.
CHECKSiAND BILLS.
The trunk had to be cut open. In ii were
found some strips of old clothing, bottles,
an old bonnet, papers, bank deposit slips
and all sorts of odds and ends. MIS-. Smith
was on the point OF having the whole outfit
thrown out of doors, when, at the bot
| tom, she felt something that aroused her
curiosity, and, on pulling it out. "a W that it
| was fat purse. Upon opcninis tie purse
| she discovered a check dra wn by Mrs. Titus
TO ner owD order ON the Lincoln Bank for
| the amount OF 500. A further investiga-
tiun disclosed 500 bill, five $40 bills and
n S5 Eold-piece-Sl 90 in all.
This discovery both surprised and wur
| ried Mrs Smith After thinking the matter
over she decided to tell the story OF her
strange boarder and the stranger abandon
nent OF the trunk. Magistrate Deuel. ad-
vised her to go To the Lincoln Bank and
see If She could not get trace Of Mrs. Titus
there. AT the bank she was told that Mrs.
Titus was a depositor, and at the present
time has $500 to her credit in that place.
The Lincoln Bank did not know her ad
dress. however. The last address that she
had given there was No. 63 West Thirty
eighth street. Mrs. Smith went to that
number, but was told that no such person
lived there or was known there. Then
she gave up the search and decided to ad
vertlse for Mrs Titus through the news
papers.
HOUSE CRUMBLING TO PIECES.
The last trace that could be found of
Mrs. Titus was obtained by following up
the clew that her property in Brooklyn
offered.
AT No. 2T3 Washington street, Brooklyn.
stands au old thrce-story brick structure.
which fills In the eighteen feet of space
between tue Columbia Theater and the post
office building. IL is " orth about $50 900.
but the government, when it was purchas-
ing the ground for the new pOstoffice, Offered
Mrs. Titus as tigh as S1GO'0OO for it.
She refused every offer that was made,
and finally the government agents gave up
in disgust, and today the little red building
stands unoccupied and crumblinG, an eye
Sore to an otherwise splendid block of
structures.
TIE agent who has charge of the property
says that Mrs. Titus was in his rifiCc two
days ago to see him about fr. The property
will not rent, he says. unless it is put in
good repair, and AIRS. Titus will not con-
sent TO spend one cent upon it. She attends
to the paying of the taxes and to every
thing except the effort to rent 1t, which she
leaves to the agent He has made repeated
efforts to get her to give him her address,
hut she has steadily refused to do so. She
has told him that She has considerable other
property, but will not say where it is To-
Gated or in whose hands it is placed for
rental