Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1901-06-22
ELLIS GLtAN'S IDENTITY
Is ALMOST ESTABLISHED.
BELIEVED TO BE NONE OTHER
THAN CORA ALICE CUNNINGHAM,
OF ADDISON, WHO
MYSTERI0USLY DISAPPEARED
AT ALMOST THE IDENTICAL TIME
WHEN e. b. GLENN BE-
GAN HIS CAREER.

Special to the Register.
PARKERSBURG, w. Va, June 21.-
Ellis Glenn appeared in the Criminal
Court this morning attired entirely in
black and wearing heavy black veil
to protect her from the gaze of the
curious. On account of the United
States court room being in use by that
court and the county court house not
being quite complete, her case was con-
tinued till the 9Th of July.
The mystery Of where Ellis Glenn
sprang from and what was her past
life has been almost positively solved
by B. d. Hutchinson, a prominent mer-
chant and United States commissioner
at Addison, who states that she is no
other than the Cora Alice Cunningham
who was born and reared within a few
miles Of Addison. The mysterious al
lusions OF Ellis Glenn to her death and
burial in Florida are explained by
this naturalization for Cora Alice Cum
ningham was reported to have died in
Florada shortly before the appearance
of E. B. Glenn upon the scene. Mrs.
Miller, the mother of Cora Cunning
ham, believes implicitly that her daugh-
ter is dead, and only short while ago
sent headstone to Florida to be placed
at the grave of her daughter, with her
name and the usual data on it. Ellis
Glenn said in Illinois that
She Died and Was Buried
and was dug up by grave robbers. How
she has managed to live and meet her
expenses during the eighteen months
since her arrest is mystery. But with
the solution of her identity comes also
the solution of the question of how she
lives, for it is supposed that the death
and burial story were invented to Sc
C-lre life insurance and that this is now
lnishing her means of support. That
Ellis Glenn and Cora Cunningham aIe
the same person there is little doubt.
Cora had a scar about the size of a
quarter on the top of her head, caused
by burn. Ellis Glenn has G. similar
scar and says it was caused by a burn.
Mr.. Hutchinson and another man from
Webster county both agree that Ellis
Glenn is Cora Cunningham. Since
Glenn has been here Mr.. Hutchinson
has been in correspondence with her,
and in her letters she speaks of his per-
sonal appearance, of his family, al
though in his letters he has not said
he was married and calls him her old
friend. In one letter she asks if he
would advise the woman he had spoken
of in his letter Cora Cunningham to
return to her home and family.
with the Identification
comes also the solution of the mystery
as to the reason why she assumed the
garb of a man. 1t was that her re-
ported death might be the more readily
believed and thu. her subsequent dis
covery might never bring her to punish
ment for having deceived an insurance
company. Prior to assuming the role
of a man Cora's career was checkered.
She married Mel. Rador and while he
was suing for divorce he was killed by
Bill Coe, who died while serving life
sentence in the penitentiary for killing
him. She then married man near
Philadelphia named, Palmer and coming
to Parkersburg she married railroad
brakeman named Ross. BY him she
had one son who is now living with his
grandmother in Webster county. Later
she went to Cedar Keys, Florida, and
there is suppoed to have married Mr..
Treadway, who brought the news OF her
death to her mother. In her trunk,
which was sent home after her death,
was all her hair, cut off close to the
head There was mystery about her
death and her family never knew much
about it. But the circumstance all
point to Ellis Glenn as the same Cora
Cunningham who lived so many years
at Addison. Her mother is positive
that Cora is dead, while her other rela-
tives believe that Ellis Glenn IS the
same person.