The evening world., 1905-10-07
PRISONER MAY
Be MISSING man
Wife SOUGHT
Believed to Be John J. DAILY,
Who DISAPPEARED Five
Years Ago.

John J. DAILY. arrested In Greenwich,
Conn. as q .rioh-oufck swlndler. Is
believed 10 be former wealthy real
estate operator, whose mysterious dis
appearance created wide interest in 1900
and whose supposed body was Identified
and buried al Kingston. n T., two
years later.
Sheriff Rich's suspicious were aroused
by his prisoners unwillingness to be
photographed At first Il was suspect.
ed he was an ex-conviot, but when his
papers were searched and bundle Of
clippings found relating to the disap.
pearance OF joan ], DAILY. OF Toronto,
Canada, new light broke on the man a
past
one OF the clippings, printed in Jan.
uary, 1908 contained a picture OF the
missing DAILY. Sheriff Rich noticed at
once that 1t would pass anywhere "a
picture OF his prisoner. He Ia con.
WINGED that the man he has In custody
is the missing Toronto real estate
speculator.
Wlfe's Search Pathetic.
Days disappearance would not have
attracted 80 much attention but for the
pathetic search made for him by his
wife She brought the case to the
attention Of the press, and wide public
Interest was attracted by her sta-ch,
Mrs, DAILY was brilliant and cultured
woman. She had bsen sJclally proml-
merit In Chicago when DAILY married
her Thev went 20 Toronto where he
forged 10 the front as land sp culatOr,
He owned great deal OF cty prop.
erty and more than 500 OoG worth II
farm land when the financial s;rin.
gency OF 1900 brought a slump In valves
and his fortune was swept away. lie
determined % bring his wife and boy
to New York and begin over again.
4 few days before the date set FOR
their departure Daily suddenly iisAp.
peared. His wife thought he might have
become Iemented from excessive worry
and, as she learned he had boarded q
train for New York. she came on ex.
pectlnS to fn1 him here. Their many
friends hero had no trace Of DAILY.
vita her fourte n-year-old boy III on
her hands, Mrs, DAILY went to the home
| OF James l.. HALEY. Of No 4aB Fifty.
sev. MN street BROOKLYN. and from
there conducted her remarkable search.
Believed HusSsnd Dead.
The woman simply would no, be dis.
bIh9ut a trace of the missing man be-
lna found, Finally after two years ot
patient waiting Chef Of Police stephen
Woods, OF Kingston, n. Y. who. like
every police head In the country, had
! heen notified and received photographs
/ OF Dalv repeatedly sent word 10 Mrs.
Daly on Jan. p, 1903, that TIE body "
a man found murdered In Sells x
! ForepauRh Circus car al BinghamtOn
Was very like her hushpn7. ana Llat
"a >ari bearing the name John J. Daly'
was fCurd N the clothing.
Edgar Elmendort. Of Highland Falls,
| Ing 1OTonto man Mrs. Laly went ny
| 10 view the remains, but she tainted
| AZ the sight OF the corpse and could
not be induced to look at II again Sne
was not sure It was that OF her nus
band, b!I sae acceepea ElmGsnderIs
TO Canada for interment
Mrs. Dalys friends never have felt
certain ttat II was her husband who
was identified and buried, and the sup
posed widow of,en has expressed her
self doubtfuily In the premis,s, She
was informed to-day OF the arrest Of
the man In Greenwich who resenbled
her husband and had complete story
Of the latters disappearance and re-
puted death In newspaper clippings In
his possession.
TIE prisoner Daily, who was taken. to
lghe county jail at Bridgeport to-day
| fol owing his arralgnment for an al
legged swindling Canadian publishing
scheme, is forty years old, about Ave
feet ten inches In height athle'ie In
build and wears short sandy mus
tache and Van Dyke beard, slightly
tinged with gray