Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-14
WHEREABOUTS NOT KNOWN
NO DEFINITE TRACE OF MOVE
MENTs OF ALLEGED ELoPERs.
Reported illness of Parents of
Former Ensign Pritchard-Views
of Mother of Girl.

Mrs. William H. Pritchard. mother of
Earl w. Pritchard. the ensign who was
recently dismissed from the navy for
the good of the service, at the reported
instigat.on of Mrs. Adolph Won Haake of
this city. is lying at the point of death at
her home in Marion, Ohio. No one dares
tell Mrs. Pritchard of. the discharge of
her son nor of his rumoreS elopement
with Mrs. R. Harry Cathcart. jr.. who
was Alma Marie Won Haake of Washing
ton.
No trace has been found of the alleged
clippers. though it is said that they were
last heard of in Pittsburg. where a hotel
register is said to have revealed their
presence
father, is now in Indianapolis. his old
home. having gone there three weeks ago
TO receive treatment. He once suffered
q partial stroke of apoplexy and feared
mat he was about to be stricken again.
IL is said young Pritchard is in Pitts
burg. with a view to forming a company
TO manufacture railway device invented
by his father.
The Pritchards went to Marion from
indianapolis less than a year ago to take
treatment at sanitarium.
As to Divorce Proceedings.
Neither Mrs. Won Haake, who resides
at Hammond Court. Georgetown. nor
the girl friends of the missing bride
nave any idea of Mrs. Cathcart's where
abouts. The young husband, who re-
SIDES at Newburg. and is the son of a
wealthy patent medicine manufacturer
OF tnat place. IT is reported. Is about
10 begin divorce proceedings. From
the time of his marriage, June 30 last.
he and his bride did not get along to-
gether ideally. it is said. and within a
month after the wedding Mrs Cath
cart left her husband and went to New
York with friend. Once. the husband
says. his wife escaped him at Jersey
city as they We're waiting for a train.
She vanished while his back was turned
for a moment.
Mr.. Cathcart is inclined to put the
plane on Pritchard. who. he says. ex-
ercised strong influence over his; wife,
with whom there had existed a boy
and girl romance.
1t was after her daughters presum-
able disappearance with Pritchard that
Mrs. Won Haake complained to the
Navy Department of the conduct of the
young ensign. Her complaint caused
an investigation which resulted in the
ensign's dismissal from the service. 1t
is said that secret service men found
that October 81. Pritchard and a wom-
an registered at the Hotel Henry, Pitts
burg, as man and wife. Pritchard's
dismissal followed, a week ago
Rumored Presence in Ohio.
In addition to the rumor that Pritch-
ard is now in Pittsburg, another report,
equally unfounded, has it that he is
with his mother at Marion, and de-
nies all knowledge of Mrs. Cathcart's
whereabouts.
The story of the wife's disappear
ance came from the husband, in spite
of the efforts made by the Navy De-
partment and Mrs. Cathcarts parents
to keep the matter secret.
1T is a terrible mistake to make this
affair public Mrs. Adolph Won Haake,
mother of the missing girl, said. Both
families have long been on terms of
friendship. and felt that the breach be-
healed. but now, in the light of the
publicity which has been given it.
cannot tell how it may result