The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-03-08
DENIES ELOPEMENT.
Michigan Commissioner in Plight Be
cause of Ocean Filtration.

Hancock, Mich, March S.-Walter
B. Jaehnig, a copper country man con
nected with the state tax commission,
/ is the victim of strange chain of cir
eumstances involving the mysterious
4 disappearance of an English young wo-
man in New York. and for the past
week he has been deluged with letters
and kilograms from eastern neWspa-
pers and relatives of the woman ask
I ing an explanation of his connection
+ with the case.
Strangely enough. Jaehnig does not
! know the Wherea bouts of the young
woman although he admits he met
her two years ago and for time cor
/ responded with her That he eloped
with her, however. as charged by Ger
tain newspapers, he brands as false.
1.-Two years ago. while en- route
4 from England to America on the
4 steamer Cedric, met an English
young woman, Miss Bessie Bradley,
I from DevOlshires who was on her way
TO Dobbs Ferry, n. Y. to join her
brother. a resident of that place" said
Mr.. Jaehnig in an interview here to-
( day During the several days we were
at sea I was thrown more or less IN
her company and came to know her
only as passengers know one another
on board ship.
After reaching this country we
maintained a correspondence for sew
eraI months which finally terminated
quest. There was nothing unusual
/ about the case. For the sake of eX-
PLANTATION I might say that Miss Brad
/ ley was accompanied on the ocean trip
by a brother, a youth of 2 years
Il never heard from Miss Bradley
after we ceased corresponding in 1904
and her name had not been mentioned
to me since that time until few
months ago when a newspaper man
4 telephoned me saying that he had
/ telegram asking If I knew the present
whereabouts of my girl Thinking
that it was a joke perpetrated by as
sociates in the tax con missions Office
who knew that / had been friendly
with a Lansing young woman, I re-
piled that we left Lansing two weeks
ago, she going to Detroit and 1 to
Marquette, and that believed she
would be found in Detroit with rela-
tfyes. I did not know at the time that
the telegram in question was from a
New Y ork newspaper and the name of
Miss Bradley was not mentioned. This
I did not ascertain until later.
1T might be we'll to explain here
that Miss Bessie Bradley started Dec.
f27, 1905, from Dobbs Ferry intend
ing to go to New York to take. steam
er for England. After leaving the
appeared and no trace of her has since
been found. Two weeks after she left
DObbS Ferry her parents in England
wrote to her brother asking why the
that the discovery was made that she
was missing.
when the case was turned over to
the New York police it was difficult
to obtain a clew. However, the re-
sourceful younger brother of Miss
Bradley came to the rescue with my
/ name as that Of her former cores
pondent. I imme diately telegraphed
the young wOman's relatives at Dobbs
Ferry and also a New York neWspa per
that ] knew nothing of the case and
had not heard from Miss Bradley since
1904"
Mr. Jaehnig was referred to in some
OF the New York newspapers as "a
tmtlliOnaire copper mining man." witt
automobiles, fast horses and a man
: sion costing 100000, while another
announced that he had a wife and -four
children in the Michigan copper coun.
try and that 1t was a case Of elope-
ment- One New York paper refused
to print his denial OF any connection
with the case and for several days II
} succession carried news stories aboul
the cOurtship on the ocean, love let
tiers and gifts OF diamonds and brio
a-brac to Miss Bradley
+ Mr.. Jaehnig was in Michigan at the
! time of Miss Bradley's disappearanct
, IN New York and he has written IL
the young woman's relatives at Dobbs
Ferry explaining everything he knew
about Miss Bradley A neighbor n
+ the Bradleys at Dobbs Ferry wrote 7
pathetic letter to Mr.. Jaehnfg he.
> seeching him to tell the whole truth
about Miss Bradley's wherea bouts
{ saying that the members of the fam.
lily were distracted because of her dis
t appearance.
e Mr. Joehnig comes of prominen
! FAMILY IN the copper country and wal
2 deputy register of deeds for a Nun
t Der of years.