The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1907-11-14
Chicago People Unable to Dis
cover the identity of Miss
Smith," Who Disappeared
SHE GOES TO SOUTH CHICAGO
Many Stories Are Told in Regard to
the Identity of the Woman Who
Disappeared From Kenosha
Late Wednesday Night

The identity of "Miss Ella Smith,
a woman % years of age, who disap-
peared from Kenosha on Wednesday
evening and who tattered and worn
walked into the home of friends at
South Chicago just before midnight
Thursday night, is proving an inter-
esting mystery for the solution of
Chicago detectives and newspaper
men and although every possible
effort has been made to discover lust
who the woman Is she still remains
the mysterious "Miss Smith,
It is declared that she is a beautiful
blonde and that she is member of a
very wealthy familys but doctors,
nurses and friends have been able 10
throw veil of secrecy about the
identity of the woman which the men
seeking information have been unable
to pierce. Up to midnight Thursday
night the police of Kenosha and half
a dozen other cities were searching
for the woman, but at that time the
search was suddenly called off by
telephone message that the woman
had appeared at the home of friends
ia Chicago.
AS soon as the story of the disap-
pearance of the woman from Kenosha
was sent out papers in Chicago
sought to learn her identity but they
found that they were blocked at every
step. Orders had been given detective
headquarters in Chicago to search
for the woman and there it was SAID
that her name was just plain Smith,
but when reporters went to the home
of DR.. Albert F. Hedges, who had
been attending the woman, he slam
med the door in their faces and de-
clared that he would give out no
information in regard to the woman.
1t was DR.. Hedges that sent the te1e-
| phone message to Kenosha telling
that the woman had been found.
! l.. .. Smith, LaSalle street broker
who was in some way connected with
the case and who sounded the alarm
to the Chicago dete ctives when she
disappeared, admitted that the woman
was married and that her parents
lived in New York, but he absolutely
refused to give out any further infor-
nation in regard to her. The action
of the doctor in seeking so strenu-
ously to hide the identity of the
patient has aroused all sorts of
suspicious ard it is thought that the
woman is one who has been prominent
in Chicago society and whose esca-
pades have been much before the
public in the last few months.
At the Sanitarium here nothing is
known further than the story told by
DR.. Hedges. In speaking of the case
DR.. Pennoyer said, 1.-THE Smith wo-
man was not a patient of mine but
one Of DR.. Hedges and she was
brought here by DR.. Hedges and
treated by him. DR.. Adams made ar
engagements for the care of Miss
Smith before he went abroad and
have had little or nothing to do with
it. The woman was known here as
| Ella Smith,
The Kenosha end of the story is
most interesting as it is hard matter
| for the police to discover how the wc-
man got out of the city and to Chicago
without being noticed by some of the
officials along the way, ali of whom
had been asked to seek the woman
The disappearance of the woman is
no reflection on the Sanitarium as the
woman was under the care OF her own
nurses and these people alone were
to blame for her leaving Kenosha.
The man Smith, who is alleged to
have informed the Chicago detectives
to spare nothing to find the woman,
lives at the South Shore Country
Club and he is widely known in Chi
cago,