The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1898-10-15
But She Never
w as Lost.
CODYS ANXIETY
For Mrs. Cody May Be Re-
lieved Csnditionally.

Alice Cody, wife of Frank Cody, the
Philadelphia real estate man, of whose
strange disappearance the Boston pa
pers of this week have had considera-
BILE to say, has been located in Worces-
ter. At least the woman answering the
description and bearing the same name
as the missing woman has been found.
The woman in question makes her
headquarters at Mrs. Jones employ
ment parlors, room II, 41O Main street.
Inquiry at the above address last night
revealed the fact that Mrs. Cody has
gone to Marlboro and would not be
back for several days.
The Spy's special correspondent was
wired and within short time the wo-
man was located and had admitted to
The spy man that she was the woman
referred to. in the Boston papers.
The story told by the woman and
that published is about of the same
tenor, although giving details as to
Mrs. Cody's whereabouts more fully
than has been known heretofore
Frank and Alice Cody were married
in Philadelphia about six years ago.
Since July, 1885, when Alice Cody left
her home in Philadelphia, her husband
city to city. For months he remained
In San Francisco, following up a clue
that in the end led to nothing.
Ihen he received a letter that had
taken nearly a year to reach him. 1t
was from his wife, who was at the
time she wrote the epistle living at 25
Day street, Fitchburg. Back to the
east Cody hurried Immediately, only
to find that Alice had left 10 months
before, leaving an address at go Boyl-
ston street, Boston. At that place,
which was an employment office, Cody
was told that Mrs. Cody had not been
heard of for many weeks.
This was in the latter part of 1896,
ana since then all definite trace Of the
woman is lost. Mrs. Cody is now 20
years old, and she has a little boy
about four years old. She left home
most suddenly.
Mr. Cody came home one day in July
1895, having left everything as usual
In the morning. He entered his yard
and saw that the house was dark He
tried the door and an empty room
echoed the noise. The neighbors told
MIN that Mrs. Cody had gone away
during the day and wagon had taken
away the furniture. From that mo-
ment Cody has searched for his wife.
he Knows now that when she first
letthome she went to Ireland She had
saved money for her passage, and along
with her child went to her old home
in Callan county, Kilkenny. In June
1885, just after the date of the letter he
received in California, he is sure she
was In Boston for q while.
Mrs. Cody has a sister in Brooklyn
and while she is hopeful Of the ultimate
success Of Cody's search, the other
members of his wife's family are doing
all In their power to keep her where
2l0UtC
band. Mrs. Cody wherever she is is
making money, for a good amount
comes to her parents every month The
family, it Is alleged, think this remit
tance will cease if Cody finds his wife
The above story is the version given
by the husband, who claims to have
looked all over the country for his wife.
employing the best detectives and
spending money right and left in the
endeavor to locate the woman
Mrs. Cody's story, as told to The Spy
man, was that she went to Glendon,
Pa. July 10, 1895, taking her six months
old child; from here she went to Eas-
ton, Pa, afterward visiting her parents
in Ireland, where her child was left
She gave no reason for leaving her hus-
band.
She returned to this country, locating
for time in Boston, in 1895 In May of
this year she removed to Fitchburg
Mass. where she did homework for a
time. She then came to Worcester, and
worked for time as a domestic in
Judge Gaskills family.
The woman exhibited a copy of the
Boston paper which contained an ac-
count of her husbands search, and
said she was willing to live with him,
under certain. conditions. The descrip-
ton tallies almost exactly with the wo-
man in question