The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1903-07-16
ON STILL HUNT
AFTER WORDS
Mr.. Best to Look Up Mystery
Of Fathers Death.
PllKERT0NS ALSO ON CASE
Elusive Or. Woods and Wife Are still Miss.
Ing Were Heard From al
Niagara Falls.
PllKeRT0NS ALSO ON CASE

New York. July l6.-To begin a personal
search for DR.. John D. Woods and hi.
wife in whose California home his father
died under mysterious circumstance
more than three months ago. Charles
Sumner Best has left this city. He wen,
direct to Phlllipsburg. N. j.. where Mrs
Woods father lives. and will endeavor 10
ascertain IL they visited him after their
sudden disappearance from Atlantic City.
III he gets any trace of the place 10
which they sent their trunks he will 20 10
that city. and. knowing the doctor and his
wife as he does, and something OF their
methods, he hopes to be able TO locate
them soon. He will call on the editor
or newspaper In Easton, Pa, to whom
Mrs. Woods sent a letter which had been
mailed in Buffalo
should he ascertain that this letter was
mailed In the latter city by Mrs. Woods
and was not sent there by paid messen-
ger so that any one anxious 10 follow
them might be misled, he will 60 there
and make a personal canvas OF the hotels
TO learn IL they registered under an as
sumed name.
While the letter was written on the
paper Of the Imperial hotel at Niagara
rails, the register shows they did not
stop there. but on Wednesday last a man
and his wife who registered as m. j.
Woods and wife. Chicago" registered at
the Empire hotel. which is not far from
the Imperial. These two remained In
the hotel that night and left the next day.
1t was the day after this that the letter
to the Easton editor was mailed In Buff
falo. DR.. Woods and his wife left At
lantic City on Monday night week ago
and could have reached the falls by We'd
nesday.
That the Pinkerton agency In looking
for the couple was revealed by a dispatch
recently received from Buffalo 1t stated
that Captain fobin OF the Plnkerton New
YORK agency, was In that city seeking in
formation about the fugitive He had
conference during the day with Supertn-
tendent OF Police Bull and Acting Chief
of Detectives Mack. From them he
learned the letter from Mrs. Woods had
been dropped into a mail box in the bust
hess section of the city. but by whom IL
was impossible to ascertain
Mrs. Clara Woods. the wife OF the doo-
tors brother. Thomas, but who is sepa-
rated from him and now lives at 122 Og-
den avenue, Jersey City Heights. said
when interviewed II might be that the
doctor and his wife are in Marbleton, a
little village near Kingston, n. Y. Her
only reason for this belief is that. al
though she has seen neither OF the
Noodses In the last three years, she re-
members the doctor often said he had n
friend. Mrs. John Terwilliger. who lived
In Marbleton. and that he would like 10
spend some time in her home He said
then IL was a secluded spot where one
might live forever without others know
Ing his whereabouts
Il believe my brother will be able to
lind out something definite about the
elusive Dr. Woods and his wife" said
Alfred NJ Best. after his brother had
started on his journey Tuesday
Il am surprised to learn that the
Pinkerton agency is on the same mission. !
We have not engaged It's services, but II |
nay be that District Attorney Boyd. who |
has Jurisdiction over San Rafael and who |
$ not sleeping over this matter, may
nave employed the detectives
1T Is not true that my mother received |
! letter from Mrs. Woods recently. or |
about day after the editor in Easton. |
Pa, received a letter from the same per- |
ION. The letter which was printed, and |
which was said TO have been sent 10 |
ny mother a few days ago from some
own In Pennsylvania. was written I'm
san Rafael April u last"
Colonel Best's sons say that shortly be-
ore his death he had 1880 shares OF the
iorden-Tiger mines. but they have been
BILE 10 find only 5000 shares