Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-12-24
MYSTERY CLEARED Up
Missing Philadelphia Heiress
Has Been in ireland.
! DISAPPEARANCE PLANNED
Ida Miller Wanted Evidence That Es-
tate Had Been Looted.
VISITED FATHERS OLD HOME
Called Husband Over Telephone and
Announced Her Arrival in New
York-Story Of Their Marriage.
VISITED FATHERS OLD HOME

| NEW YORK, December 24.-Ida May Mil
Ter, the Philadelphia heiress, is no longer
| the central figure in a great mystery. Tor
| day she and her husband, DIR. Rolando
! Kuehn, are at the Hotel York, 36th street
| and 7th avenue, and she has declared that
| not only has she not been in Il sanatorium,
but that her disappearance had been plan
| ned for a purpose. Her fun story will be
| told when She returns to Philadelphia.
| Mrs. Kuehn arrived in New York Satur-
| day aboard the Cumbria and went directly
| to the Astor House, where she registered as
| Ida May Miller. Mrs. Kuehn has been at
| her fathers old home, Knockmoyle near
| Omagh, County Tyrone, Ireland, and among
| his relatives in that neishborhood for three
| weeks collecting evidence to support a
| charge which she says will be made imme
diately upon her return to Philadelphia this
| week that his estate had been looted. DR..
! kuehn was in his wifes residence, 1919
| South 18th street, Philadelphia, yesterday
| when ne was called to the telephone. For
| weeks he has been almost besieged in the
house. When he was arrested ten days ago
| on charge whose real intent was to dis
cover the Whereabouts of his missing wife,
| a mob surrounded the place.
When DR.. Kuehn discovered that some
/ one talking to him from the Hotel AS
| tor in this city, and announced herself as
| Mrs. kuehn. he suspected a plot at once.
he had no intimation that his wife intend
ed to return to America for week or more,
and he would not be ieve that it was she.
| tie made her state the number of the offices
| in the Perry building, Philadelphia which
he occupied before his marriage, the sobri-
quets they had given to certain of their
friendS-and enemies-and otherwise dis
play knowledge of matters known only to
him and his wife, before he would believe
that 1t was she.
Reunited in New York.
Convinced at last, he greeted her with
JOY and then rushed for a train for New
York. Arriving here about ) o'clock, DR..
kuehn went to the Hotel York, telephoned
to Mrs. Kuehn, who was registered at the
Hotel Astor as Ida May Miller, and she
Immediately Joined him in the York, where
he had registered as K. Kuehn and wife.
Mrs. kuehn was evidently happy last
night. delighted to be in America and with
her husband again, and much interested in
displaying photographs and trinkets which
she had brought home souvenirs of her
trip She also had large packet of let
tiers and documents which she said would
play part in legal proceedings concerning
her fathers estate, but these were not
made available for publication.
When Mrs. kuehn had been told of the
sensational charges made by her neigh
bors in Philadelphia concerning herself, her
disappearance and her husband she was
amazed and amused. When told that her
husband had been charged with making
away with her by placing her in some in
Stitution for those of feeble mind of taking
her fortune and of acquiring a nlalevolent
influence over her by hypnotism or by drugs,
and that he had been arrested in connection
with these charges, she became Indignant
Il never had a moments peace before
my marriage" she said, land l suppose
the same influences have now been direct
ed upon my husband They are powerless
to harm either of us now. and there may
be accounting in which we certainly
shall not suffer-
Met at Doctors Office.
Miss Miller first met DR.. Kuehn at his
| office, where she went with Bentley Adams,
a yound man friend who wanted medical
| treatment. Soon after the physician began
to call on Miss Miller at her home.
DR.. kuehn pressed her to marry him,
but she declined. She said she was op-
posed to marriage and believed the hard
and fast bonds which the laws throw about
that relationship are source OF much
unhappiness
Failing to get her to meet his views, DR..
kuehn agreed to hers. and on May last
they each signed in duplicate an agreement
Of marriage. This document is drawn up
| TO follow the legal form Of a contract of
| marriage, and the names "Ronaldo Kuehn''
and Ida May Miller signed to each
copy. There were no witnesses DR.. Kuehn
| said he submitted the marriage agreement
| to his lawyer, and was assured that it was
| legal and binding contract in the eyes
of the law.
mo. l do not believe in marriage" Mrs.
Kuehn said. Il have seen 1t become the
source of great unhappiness. OF course Il
| do not favor anything loose or indiscrimn-
| ate, but believe 1t is wrong to depend upon
| law to compel the performance of duties
which should be safe for their fulfillment
| In the love and faithfulness of those who
enter into 1t with entire trust in one an
other / may not be able to make clear in
words Just why I feel very deeply in this
matter. 1 know, however, that should not
desire to have mere law bind me for an in
slant to any one whom had ceased to love
and respect"