The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-03-19
hustlers who get many a booze be.
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around among his constituents.
NEWARK HAS
A MYSTERY.
Body Found in Maryland
May Be That of Erna
Gels Who EIoped
With Doctor.

Avn W 81 ~ L' -, VAoAS III 40. I'LL
vestigation here to-day makes il
appear that the body Of the richly.
dressed woman found entangled in
the nets Of fishermen off the Anne
Arundel county shore of Maryland
was Miss Erna Gies, who disap-
peared' from here last January. AT
the same time young doctor was
reported missing. 1t is the belief
Of Miss Gies' friends that the doc
tors body is also in the inlet where
hers was found 1t developed to-
day that they frequently stated in
positive terms that they intended
to kill themselves together.
One night shortly before their
disappearance Mrs. Lena Wieder,
with whom Miss Gies boarded at
107 Springfield avenue, discovered
the two young people sitting side
by side, their clothing soaked in
kerosene oil. She questioned them
sharply, Miss Gies broke down
and confessed it was their intcn-
ton to touch 4 match to their cloth
ing and burn up in each other 5
arms. Mrs. Wieder reasoned with
them, but they promised nothing
more than to defer the double sui
eide. 1T will happen some day."
said the doctor. 80 it will,' eX-
claimed Miss Gies.
Each was greatly infatuated with
the other. The doctor, it is said,
bankrupted himself in lavishing
large sums on jewels and fine
clothes for his sweetheart. Ruin
stared him in the face. Their ex-
pressed reason for suicide was that
love could not live on poverty. The
night before they disappeared the
doctor told a friend he was going
to Baltimore. They left the Penn
sylvania Railroad station in such
haste that they forgot one OF their
satchels. 1t was sent after them.
Miss Gies was 20 years cid and re-
markably beautiful, with full,
graceful form, rosy complexion,
lustrous blue eyes and remark ably
white, regular teeth. An exact
inventory secured to-day Of the
many Jewels she wore here ITALICS
to the minutest detail with the
jewels on the corpse OF the drowned
woman.
Miss Gics was the daughter of a
bandmaster i'll New York, whose
name and address cannot be ascer-
tanned. She ran away from home
five months ago, because Of a love
affair, it is said. For two months
she lived in Hoboken, earning her
own living. Then she came here.
Her remarkable beauty readily Sc
cured her employment in a cafe.
where she made many admirers,
but few intimate friends. Al times
she broke into tears and exclaimed:
Il am sorry left home. l would
90 back, but dare not.
None Of the girls relatives can
be located. 1t is believed she has
none here. The local police have
not been officially requested to CO.
operate in the case, but are ex-
pecting adviccs from the Maryland
authorities. Miss Lena Gampert,
who worked in the same cafe here
with Miss Glcs and boarded at the
same place, says she could posi-
lively identify the girls icWelry
and clothes. Lena wears a sacQue
Identical in quality and appear
ancc with that Miss Gics had on
when she lett Newark.
This is the same AS the sacque
the drowned woman Wore, said
Lena tonight.
a have read the description
carefully and could identity it in
an instant. lalso know just what
jewclry Erna had, and could iden-
tify that positively, too. The
jeWclry on the drowned woman cor
responded exactly with Erna's
Mrs, Wicder corroborates Lena
as to the jewclry and clothing, Geo.
J, Busch, Of High street and Spring
field avenue, from whom Miss Gies
jewels were bought, identified them
in the description of those worn by
the drowned woman.
Baltimore, Md. March IS. Fur.
Their investigation made by the
Anne Arundel county authorities
to-day with the assistance Of ply.
siclans resulted i'll the belief that
the girl whose body was found in
the fishing net in Magothy River
was not over Il years Of age.
The clothing and jeweIry upon
more careful inspection by compe-
tent Judges prove not to be as fine
or as valuable as first reported.
The stones in the rings and breast.
pin are not genuine diamonds OF
sapphircs, but only ordinary glass
OF the cheap jewclry kind. Only
one garter was found. 1t was
much worn, and the plain oXydiled
buckles We're broken.
The county authorities do not,
on the evidence they have in their
possession, connect the missing
Newark girl with the body found
in the river. Il is still their belief
that the body was washed dowr
imbcdded in the ice from the Sus-
quehanna River. The body, how
ever, may be that Of the Newark
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