The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-03-26
WOMAN SLEUTH'S LOVE QUEST
THINKS SWEETHEART NOT DEAD,
BUT WANDERING INSANE.
Mrs. DyckmaD, Who Traps sDoOk DOctOrS
VIII search the West for Man She Was
to MarTy-VanIshed in ~. Louis AfteE
Fire-Body Sent East Was Not His

Mrs. DyckmaD, Who Traps Spo0k Doctors,
VIII search the West for Man She Was
20 MarTy-Vanished in ~. Louis AfteF
FiFe-Body Sent East Was Not His.
Mrs. Nellie Dyclman OF I27 West sixty
second street. one of the county medical
society's detectives, Who has been instru-
mental recently in brln ging 10 justice several
fake doctors who sell spook remedies, Is
looking for her hanct, Edward Sheahan.
he was reported to have lost his life in ST..
Louis on Nov. % last, but Mrs. Dyckman
firmly believes that he Is alive and suffering
from aphasia. She believes he is wander
ing about the Middle West in an unbalanced
mental condition, unable 10 give an account
Of himself or to reach his friends. She says
she Is going 10 devote her life to the work
Of finding him.
Sheahan boarded at the same address as
Mrs. Dyckman. He was Pullman car
conductor, and had one Of the best runs in
the Fast, going from New York to 81. Louis.
On Nov. 81 last he left on his regular trip
West. after bidding good-by to his sweet
heart and assuring her he would return on
bis regular run. On the night Of Nov. 20
he was asleep in the Pullman supply house,
on Twenty first street near the Union Depot
ST. Louis, when the building caught fire
and was destroyed. Eighteen other con-
ductors were also asleep in the building,
and a tramp Is supposed to have been in
the place. Sheahan was seen by his fellow
conductors fleeing from the building after
the elarm wac sounded, but when the fire
was out he was not 10 he found. A charred
body was discovered among the ruins.
This was supposed TO have been Sheahan's
body. and 1t was sent ERst and buried by
Sheahan's relatives, though they were I'M
able to identify II positively.
At the time, Mrs Dycknan insisted that
il could not be Sheahan. She thinks 80
more than ever now. Sheahan was six
feet tall. weighed go pounds and was
strikingly handsome man. The body that
was buried as Sheahau's was that Of man
S feet inches tall, Of medium build. Mrs:
Dyclman thinks 1t must have been that Of
the tramp,
She thinks SheAhan Is now suffering
from mental disorder because OF the shock
that must have come 10 him upon awaken
ing in the midst Of a confa grafton. One
Of his most marked characteristics, Mrs.
Dyckman says, was great fear Of acct
dents and sudden injuTy-a fear that con-
tinually haunted him as he rode back and
forth on his car. The sudden realization
that he was at last actually in great peril,
Mrs DycI1nan thinks unbalanced his mind.
When she read in the papers recent de-
spatch about a strange man who jumped
on an empty locomotive on the outskirts
OF Chicago, and ran II at racing speed
through a part OF the city and then jumped
OF and disappeared In the woods, she con-
tracted the idea that the wild man might
be Sheahan, trying, in an insane way, 70
reach his friends.
She has begun a systematic search for
him, and has already written to thirty-throe
hospitals in the West, besides the city Of,
fcials Of St. Louis. Although she has found
no trace Of Sheahan 80 far, she says she
will keep right on IL It takes her years.