The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-17
EVANSAND BROWNALIVE?
SEEN IN NEWARK, 1T rs SAID, BY
FRIENDS VINO KNEW THEM.
,,op. was with woman AT Electric Park
and NV Women VINO Knew Him Talked
win vim Mr. 1slering Satisfied That
ihc couple We're Not Drowned


NEWARK. " J., Aug. ls-George H.
r,.,,- Of Johnstown. n Y, who disap-
n,,r,d with Miss Florence Brown
Now York city from Canada Lake
:, the Adirondacks, was seen and
l,,,ifrd in Newark on Wednesday night
Ina, ] Werner of 20 Montgomery street ;,
yow,rk formerly lived in Johnstown and
l,ow Young Evans by sight. He saw
l.,ars NJ Electric Park on Wednesday
,,cl and wrote postal oard to friend
in Iohnstown, telling him of seeing Evans
and the girl talking to two women that
night
The man who received the card took it
IN Chief of Police Treat, who asked Chief Of
Police Hopper to look the couple up. Detec-
tive sergeant Murphy was assigned to the
cose and found Werner at his address and
osked him about the circumstances Of the
meeting
Werner was positive that he saw Evans
with a girl whom he did not know, and that
he saw them talking with two women, one
~ whom he recognized as Mrs. W, II Harper
who formerly lived in Gloversvile and
&c now resident Of Newark.
who said hat her sister. Mrs. Henry Patton,
who had rlst come to Newark from Glovers-
vile. had seen Miss Brown there and they
both knew Evans and talked with him on
general subjects on Wednesday night. but
had rot heard of the supposed drowning.
Mrs Harper said to-day that there could
he no possibility Of a mistake in the iden-
titv of the young man. Mrs. Harper
lives al "a Mulberry street, Newark, and
Mrs Patton at SO West street. Glovers-
vile They are not acquainted with Wer-
ner and he knew Mrs. Harper only by
sight
UTICA, \. Y. Aug. 18.-Interest in the
mysterious disappearance OF Miss Florence
Brown of New York and George II. Evans
Of Johnstown, who have been missing from
Canada Lake since last Monday morning,
when they went out for row. was revived
to-day by a letter received from Miss Jennie
Werner of Newark, N. j., by the Glovers
vile Herald.
Miss Werner SAYS in her communication
that she met Miss Brown, with whom she
alleges she is personally acquainted. and
Evans on the streets Of Newark, n. j.,
aug. ! ana COTlNeISetl WIFI JHt couple
The date she mentions in her letter is
prior to the disappearance Of Miss Brown
and Evans from Canada Lake and conse-
quently does not throw any light on the
fate which befell the young couple subse-
quent to their departure from Canada Lake,
but it would indicate, if Miss Werner is
sincere in her statements, that Miss Brown
and Evans had been in each others COM
panv more frequently than their relatives
suspected and therefore tends to strengthen
the theory OF an elopement instead of the
drowning OF the pair.
Miss Werners letter to the Herald lie
variously estimated by those who read it
The communication would indicate that the
writer ia deficient in education, but her
statements have convincing tone and may
cad to developments in the strange dis
appearance of Miss Brown and Evans.
Search for their bodies In Canada Lake
and the adjoining Adirondack forest has
been abandoned. The relatives of the
girl. who still remain at Canada Lake, will
return to New York tomorrow.
Evans and Miss Brown had been at Can ada
Lake ten days when they disappeared
II is said that they had not known each
other before they met AT the lake, but imme-
dately upon becoming acquainted they
apparently formed a strong attachment
for each other and were much in each others
company up to the time they disappeared.
They went out in boat last Monday
morning. and when they did not return
home that night search was made Of tbs
lake Their boat, with one oar. Mis-
Browns sacaue, and Evans's sweater in X,
hn
The other oar was found in the water mar
the boat.
Evans had been at the hotel with his
mother, and Miss Brown with her sister,
Mrs, Edward Biering, of 18s Eighth Avenue.
this city. Evans's father was in the glove
death left a fortune, the sons part OF
which was 100000, which he would inherit
upon his coming of age. to-dav. Young
Evans was an athlete and a member OF
the Oe class Mt Harvard. Miss Brown was
about 90 years old and good looking.
The night that the couple disappeared
Miss Worth of Pittsburg ana her mother
arrived al Canada Lake. 1t ia understood
that Miss Werth was Evaw's fiancee.
canada Lake and Niger Lake, half a
mile away. where it was supposed the couple
went in search of pond lies We're dragged
and then dynamited, bNG the bodies were
mot found.
IN" >HarcnerS 1OUDd kfe print VI 10
vomans shoe on the tmil to Niger Lake,
but his did NOT get s.rious consideration.
rs 'he trail was frequently used by summer
guests AZ the hotels
The general theory was that the couple
had walked off oihe woods and got lost,
and a search was kept up night and day
al last week
From several cities not far from Canada
AXE come reports that couple answering
he description Of the missing pair had
been married or seen, but when these re-
ports were run down they proved false,
Mr. Brown, the father of Miss Brown,
Who lives at qi8 West Seventeenth street,
said last nigh that he had heard no word
from his daughter, but that he expected
10 get some news to-day, as the family
we're coming down from Canada Lake.
Edward Biering, whose wife is Miss
Browns SITTER said last night that he had
heard nothing from the couple, His wife is
now AT Canada Lake.
Il woun like TO talk TO the persons who
say they saw Miss Brown at Electric Park"
h" said. Then. If she really was seen,
"" might have something to go by to find
her
I'm sure the bodies are not in Canada
Lake. because il has been thoroughly
searched and they would have been found.
No tim" or expense will be spared to find
The couple, dead or alive,