The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1904-05-24
OFFICERS SEEK
MISSING WOMAN
Detectives Searching For New
York MiIliOnaire's Wife.
LOST AT RACE TRACK
CHEckEREo CAREER OF WOMAN
WHO HAS BEEN THRICE
MARRIED CENTRAL
FIGURE

police hunt for missing person
ever instituted in New York has ha-
Herman Leroy Jones, who disap-
peared at Morris park race track last
Monday, where she had gone with
her husband Fifty detectives from
police headquarters and 32i precinct
detectives have been specially detail
cd on the case, while every one Of
the 1000 policemen in the city has
been ordered to make a thorough
search of all the hotels. theaiers and
boarding houses Of New York in the
effort to locate the missing woman.
The entire Pinkerton force available
| in this city is at work upon the case
and every city Of Importance In the
country has been asked by wire 10
| assist in the search.
No such case has ever reused the
activities of the police Of this city.
Mrs Jones is socially Of leading
Importance in New York. the grand
daughter of Philip Hone. one of New
| York's best-known mayors and found
er of the exclusive and conservative
| old Union club For generations the
family have occupied position com.
| pared with which that of the Wander
bits, Goulds and Belmouts must be
regarded as that of the new conner
Her husband belongs to family OF
equal rank. ho being descedant Of
Ambrose kingsland, one Of New
York's old time mayors.
The sensation caused by the dts.
appearance of Mrs Jones has been
therefore absolutely without prece-
dent The pressure brought to bear
upon the police headquarters by
those of great social and business
Importance has been such that New
Yofk's great police force has been
set at work to locate the missing wo
i man
From many sources announce
ments come Of the presence OF wo
men answering the description of
| Mrs Jones, None of these has been
verified, as Mrs Jones wrote to her
husband in her farewell note that
she intended to go on the stage All
kinds of stories of women In dis
guise being on the stage here are
anoat They have proved to be large
ly fakes. However. the incident re
veals that many women are applying
daily for jobs on the stage. Some
como In carriages and plainly are so
ciety people
Robert Cntting. who Is acting for
the husband. today denied that Mrs.
Jones' had been under treatment for
the morphine habit, ami that sne
had hut recently left sanitarlum.
"She has not been in a sanitarium
for year" said the lawyer. al
though she has been more or less ir-
think II quite likely that she may.
have applied 10 theatrical agencies
for an engagement She had only
few dollars with her when she went
away. and | believe she will finally
be found at the home Of some Of her
many friends
Mrs. Jones has had a checkereI
career Her marriage to Archibald
MacKay was the outcome Of a child
hood love affair and was expected 70
be ideal II ended in a South Dakota
divorce within "A months.
out there she met Paul r. Wilkes.
son of the supreme court Judge. vii
liam A. Wilkes, and married him
Two days after her divorce was
granted. She had never seen him
until She went 10 Sioux Falls. The
marriage caused great gossip The
boy's father cut of his allowance and
he became an actor His wife tray-
eled with him
In st Paul the troupe was billed
for a week There Wilkes met bis
old friend George shepperd. Of Can
ada. Shapperd fell in love with Mrs
I Wilkes. so II was alleged. BE that
as IL may. Wilkes fought and kilIesl
Sbepperd IN his wifes tsdroom as
he entered his apartments re saw
his wife struggling IN the embrace
Of his friend.
The woman was fighting 10 saYe
herself from the embraces Of the
man who was holding her. and faint
ed as her husband entered the room
n you've got gun. use It" said
/ Wilkes coldly. I'm geing to kill
YOU
Shepperd fred but the bullet
Glanced from a heavy wallet in his
pocket and a moment later Wilkes
: had sent bullet crashing into Shep-
perd's body
There was no trial There was no
Indictment even. and in a. short time
/ WILKES returned to New York with
I his vife
The couple went to London and be
eame the Bohsmiaus Of Bohemia
One day they had money sBi wire.
the next dsy ihev starved This life
was kept up for months
This life came to an end az last