The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-05
Disappeared From Fifth Ave-
nue. Hotel, New York,
Nearly Two Years Ago.
TURNS UP NOWIN CHICAGO
Money to the Amount Of $780,
900 Left to Him by Grateful
Woman Whom He Found
Among Injured in Rail.
road Wreck, He Claims.

NEW YORK, Oct. 5.-Frederick Cliff
ford Doorway, who disappeared mys-
t~eriously from the Fifth Avenue Hotel
on January &c, 1906, after heAhad come
here from Sudbury, Ont, tq claim an
alleged fortune of $3.50. 900, which he
claimed had been left to him by Mrs.
j. H. James, a wealthy New York
woman, has just turned up in Chicago
with a remarkable story of having been
kidnapped and held prisoner for many
months by persons Interested in keep
ing him out of his inheritance.
DISPATCHES from Chicago say Dor
way arrived there yesterday and met
his wife, whom he had not seen since
he left her in Ontario to come to New
York.
Doorway is coming to New York. and
If there be truth in his story there
Will be work for the police when ne
gets here. He says he was kidnapped
in Montreal while bound for New York
to collect the Inheritance, shanghaled
on board a ship and held prisoner IN
the vessels hold for months. He es-
capped only to be, cast into a prison IN
Mexico, to find that an effort had been
made to rob him by an unscrupuious
lawyer. Doorway, who is a telegraph
OPERATOR, told his story to the chicago
police.
ON November, 1906 he said, II was
stationed at Rush Lake. a little station
on the Canadian Pacific Railway. There
was q wreck. and one of the victlms
was a Mrs. J. H. James, who said she
lived in Fifth n NV York. spe
was severely injured and 1 put my rur
coal around her and assisted IN carry
ing her to the nearest house. caiieo
the most available doctor, who dressed
h injuries, and in a few days MIS-
James went on her way.
.'In a month";" continued Doorway, - re-
cet ed . packet of papers and a letter
from her lawyers, stating that Mrs. James
had died and in her will had bequeathed'
me $40. 900. Through advice OF FRIENDS L
nlaced the matter in the hands OF a West
ern LAWYER. In January, 1906, L received
a letter from him in New YORK askins
me to- meet him.. I went from SUDBURY
csf bv way of Montreal. There met
non vvho gave, the name of Malcolm
son He had a letter of introduction TO
ms I refused to drink, but in'my room
he gave me some chocolate candy:
spfhat id the last / remember until l
found myself aboard ship in a dark, hltny
space in the hold. / made up my mind TO
escape" he went on. One night / got on
deck. One guard saw ance attacked me.
l knocked him overheard, and he was
probably drowned. 1 escaped ashore and
found I was In Vera Cruz, Mexico. l was
arrested and put in prison. In six weeks
again escaped to zacatecas. where 1
boarded the ship Reside. I told my story
to Captain Jenkins, an American, and ne
carried me to San Francisco, where 1
landed August IA last. I worked there TIL
1 got money, then came here"
On February "a, 1906. House Detective
John Mnlholand, of the Fifth Avenue
Hotel. asked the detective bureau to aid
him in finding doorway, who had disap-
peared from the hotel a month before.
Doorway had arrived at the hotel on Janu-
airy 20, and when his wife and her father,
AZ. Paul, of Sudbury, Ont, had failed to
receive any tidings from him they cape to
New York to institute a search.
Mr.. Paul and Mrs Doorway told the