The times., 1899-11-13
LOOKING FOR HER LOVER.
A Mystery Delays the Marriage o
Voice Adams Beecher.

A Mystery DeIays the Marriage of
Voice Adams Beecher.
NEW YORK, Nov. 12.-At the beginning
of last week it was announced that the
wedding of Voice Adams Beecher, the
adopted daughter of the late Rev. DR. Ed
ward K. Beecher, Henry Ward Beecher's
brother. and Edwin Buckley Guilbert, of
Leadville. Col, which had been set for last
Tuesday, had bean postponed on account of
an accident to Mr.. Guilbert while on a
hunting trip in the Adrondacks. On Tues
day it was announced at Miss Beecher's
house, 162 Macon Street Brooklyn, that she
had received another despatch conveying
the news of Mr.. GuilbeTt's death. No addi-
tional reports OF the case appeared until
this morning, when the Brooklyn Eagle"
raised the question Of whether Mr. Guilbert
was dead. whether he had been shot while
in the North Woods, or whether he had
been to Paul Smiths at all.
nephew of Miss Beecher. Charles L.
Ensley, young man who says he is IN
detective agency in Manhattan, became sus-
pieious Of the two kilograms regarding the
North Woods accident and set out for
himself to learn whether all was as it
seemed. Ensley says that Mr.. Guilbert had
lived at the Waldorf Astoria He had
given up his room at the time it was un-
derstood that he started on the hunting
trip. Ensley found that he had left word to
have his mail forwarded to Bangor, Ne
The young mans suspicious having received
this si-conhrmation, he sought a friend
ly reporter, TO whom he gave such informa-
ton as ne had, including the fact that the
statement that when Miss Beecher. with a
woman friend, went TO Paul Smiths on
last Wednesday they did not see Mr. Gull
beTt's body, but we're told that ii had been
shipped to Peekskill and buried by rela-
tiYes. The machinery OF the newspaper Of
fee promptly secured information from
Paul Smiths to the effect that no one there
had heard of the reported shooting of Gull
bert; from Peelskill, that Guilberts body
apparently had not come there; from Lead
Vile and Denver (Mr. Guilbert was regis
tered at the Waldorf-Astoria from Denyer)
that Edwin Buckley Guilbert was unknown
in those places; from Bangor. that no such
man or shooting accident was known UP
there, but that two letters forwarded from
the Waldorf-Astoria awaited such a man
there
Miss Beecher denied herself to callers
from the newspapers today. Various
friends from time to time, answered the
door for her. Word was sent out that
the Eagles" story was sensational and
that she had nothing to say for publica-
ton. Once a message was sent that the
story was untrue. Mr. Ensley told his
story practically as has been given above.
Miss Beecher was one OF fourteen chill
dren. The family name was Adams, and
they came from Braintree, Mass. She
married at the age of fourteen n r an
three time as old, named Lyon. who died
in 1886 DR.. Beechers daughter at that
time invited Mrs. Lyon to make her home
with the Beechers. She did so, and was
| adopted by DR.. Beecher after his daughter
died, taking the name Voice Adams
Beecher. Her nephew says that she spent
considerable money repairing and adorn-
ing the house in anticipation of her mar
| riage, and that her brother Mr.. Adams.
| came on last week from Massachusetts to
aid in solving the mystery Of the Mr..
Guiibert's disappearance