New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-18
MRS. III. l.. JONES MISSING.
Left Husband at Racetrack-May
Return to Stage

The who reported by Robert L. cut
ting at the West Thirteth-st, police station early
yesterday morning to be missing and was described
the police records Martha Cutting. of No,
IS East Twenty eiEhth-st.. said yesterday by
Deputy Commissioner of Police Lindsey to be the
wife of II. lie Roy Jones. OF No East Twelfth-st
Mr.. Cutting explained that the name Martha Cut
ting" sent out by mistake by the police. as
also the address. No. rs East Twenty-eghth-
St. the home OF Mr.. Cutting
Mr. Lindsey said Mrs. Jones had recently been
confined in sanatorium, and that her husband
took her the Norris Park racetrack on Monday
afternoon. thinking it would benefit her and rouse
her from her meIancholia. Mr.. Cutting and several
others were IN the party. Mrs. Jones' after a
while left the grandstand. but nothing unusual
was thought of it until half an hour later, when
She had returned. The authorities Of the park
informed and the rest Of the party and the
policemen at the track searched everywhere. but
could find trace of her.
In the evening the party returned TO town. and
at : o'clock Mr.. Jones received note written by
his wife on the stationery of the Lafayette-Bre-
wort Hotel Fastening there he did not find her
He asked the clerk If he had seen woman there
answering the description Of his wife but could get
no cew 10 her whereabouts
At No. 8 East Twelfth-st. the home Of Mrs. H.
Leroy Jones Robert L. Cutting said last evening
that Mrs Joues's letter 10 her husband was writ
ten at O'Clock in the evening and received at the
house in Twelfth-st about seven. 1t contained he
said something to the effect that she would work
out her own destiny As Mrs Jones formerly had
been on the stage the tone OF her letter intmated
TO IA slight extent. he explained that she might
return the stage.
Mr. Cutting denied that Mrs. Jones had been In
a private sa natorium-
The note written by Mrs Jones from the La
fayette-B reYoor> 10 her husband was said by
member of the family last evening TO be the inco-
herant writing of a woman not in her right mind
II said In effect that she had gone 70 work Tor a
living. and ended abruptly with the words. Please
don't" The letter said TO have been written
on a telegraph blank.
Mrs Herman lie Roy Jones is a great-granc-
daughter OF Philip Hone and niece of Joseph
8 Auerbach the lawyer Her husband is a grand
son OF ex-Mavor KinEsland. Mrs. Jones has been
thrice married. the last time 70 Mr. Jones. on
February TO- 1895. Her first marriage took place on
January g. 1890 when. a $ Miss Margaret u. Hone
she married Archibald X. Mackay. In October
1892 she obtained a divorce in Sioux Falls. on the
ground OF desertion. A daughter was given TO the
care of Mr. Mackays mother. The next day after
she got her divorce she married Paul Upper
Wilkes. an actor and the OF Justice William A
Wilkes of the Supreme Court Of South Dakota
Following n disastrous theatrical season in Lon
don, Mrs. Wilkes returned to the United states and
soon afterward obtained q divorce in Brooklyn
Mrs. Wilkes then went the stage. taking the
name of Virginia Paul. She appeared in The
Sporting Duchess" and had prominent part in
The Strange Adventures of Miss Brown the
old Standard Theatre. She remained In this city
when the company went to Boston. and soon after
ward married MIR. Jones.