The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-05-21
NOT THE EMPORIA GIRL
Woman With "LoOp the Loop
Man Isn't Miss Davis.

III
Des Moines, Ia May 21l-&fsies Capital
says: Papa Ira Scott ard the marshal
Of En1poria passed through the city last
evening via the Great Western for EN-
poria, Kansas. Scott had Ios&. all of the
spirit or ire for the Des Basznes police
force which he exhibited herd early yes
tsrday morning in the preseKce Of Capt.
Miller and Sergeant A. r. Bfackett and
his tenor was changed to che of weep
ing and Wailing because he could not
fin his fair daughter Irma- Papa Scott
still thinks that Irma went with the
circus but he is just as sure that she
isn't with the circus now and he is
much more at sea than he has been as
to where she really is. Last evening he
said to the officers here: I want to
apologize to YOU brave men for the way
I acted at the station early this morn
ing. was so sure that that woman
with the Loop the loop man was my
daughter that [ felt very sore at you
fellows for not OBTAINING her. Now 1
see that it would be a great mistake
But there is the most remarkable re-
semblance I ever heard Of. I was al
most deceived myself as to the identity
of the woman when / saw her and
came near rushing up to her and clasp
in her in my arms and asking her to
come home. But she is not the right
girl. / am sure that my girl Fan away
with the circus from Emporia, but she
is not with them now. / fear that her
dream of 4 gay time was destroyed af-
ter a few days with the show and that
she has stopped off somewhere expect
ing to make her way through life
alone No doubt she is now struggling
somewhere. ashamed to come back 10
her home.''
But she is welcome back anytime
she wants to come" said the father
with than a suspicion of moisture IN
his eyes. She is my daughter. and L
love her yet and she can come home
no matter what fires she has been
through. I am broken-hearted father
and 7 will not be content until | ind
her. I am going now to Kansas City to
put the case in the hands of the police
authorities there"
The remarkable resemblance between
the Emporia, Kas-, girl and the loop
the loop mans travelling companion
caused the police of this city to come
very near getting the department into
deep water. photographs sent here
with the cousin who came to Des
Moines were examined by detectives
who had interviewed the pretty young
woman that Diavalo calls his wife and
the officers were divided in their opin-
ion as to whether she was the woman
wanted. Officer Brothers was inclined
to the belief that the girl was not the
girl wanted officer Hedrick was al
most as sure that Mrs Diavalo was the
exact counterpart of the girl who hal
with the loon the loop man and his
wife ct the hotel prior to their depar-
ture for MarshalltqNn satisfied the off,
GERS that she is a Philadelphia girl ara
never lived in Emporia.
The loop the loop man" is Joe
of Philadelphia. a cousin to
the Mathewson baseball player who
made such a sensation in New York on
the diamond last summer. Mathewson
declares that the girl he has with him
is his wife and that they were married
this spring IN Philadelphia. A romance /
hinges on the contamination Of the
vows of these two young people Mrs.
declined to disclose any
more concerning her identity to the de-
tectives than was necessary to esta blish I
the fact that she is not Irma Scott of
Emporia. Kas- She speaks with a
slight brogue and is evidently of Ger
man descent. She is pretty and young
and has never been with a circus be-
fore. She Is an accomplished singer and
pianist and has evidently received a /
thorough musical education. She is the
belle of the circus coterie Of women and /
Mathewson. seems to be more proud of
the fact that he Topped the loop about 1
her heart than of his feats under the /
Forepaugh canvas