Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-05-26
SEND OUT spirit
BOAPTOLOCATF
BODY OF WOMAN
FRANTIC HUSBAND HAS LAKE
DRAGGED
BRIDE OF TWO MONTHS MAY
HAVE DROWNED HERSELF
Talented Musician Disappears-As-
troloeer Makes Futile Attempt to
Find Corpse by Super
natural Aid

If the body of beautiful Mrs. Ada
Taylor, formerly Miss Showalter. and
a bride of two months, is in the water
at Eastlake park, relatives and friends
who dragged the lake yesterday were
unable to find it.
In their sorrow and desperation E. A.
Taylor, the husband, and his friends.
consented to allow a spiritualist to at
tempt to locate the body by means of
spirit boat but this likewise was
of no avail.
All yesterday and last night the
search for Mrs. Ada Taylor, who dis
appeared from her home at 1912 South
Union avenue about $3.50 o'clock last
Friday morning continued.
E. A. Taylor, her husband, who is
a jeweler at 217 East Fifth street, does
not believe the woman has committed
suicide, though many of her friends
and relatives seem to think she has
ended her life by drowning.
Eastlake park, where she was last
seen alive Saturday afternoon sitting
moodily on bench, was searched yes
terday by a large party of friends and
relatives, and the waters of the lake
were dragged for over an hour in the
afternoon Others besides the immedi-
ate family, who also are interested in
the mysterious case, adhere to the
belief she has met with foul play. and
that she will be found murdered in
some out-of-the-way canyon or field
to which she may have been lured
while suffering from her mental de-
rangement, or to which she may have
wandered in her alteration.
The husband scouts the theory of
suicide, and says he believes she is
hiding some place waiting until her
mind is clearer.
Had Tried to Drown Herself
Despite the belief, or rather the hope
that the young woman has not ended
her life it was stated by her husband
yesterday that she had made at least
one desperate effort to drown herself.
This occurred on August 20 last, when
she mysteBiously vanished and was
next heard of in Santa Monica, where.
after nightfall, she had jumped from
the end of the long Hollister pier.
After leaping into the water. how
ever, the woman changed her mind and
swan to the pier, clinging tenaciously
to one Of the piles and crying for
help. She was rescued and after being
brought back to Los Angeles frequent
ly remarked to her husband:
"If I ever kill myself it will never
be by water. Oh, it is the most horri-
BILE thing in the world-to meet death
in the water. I will never attempt
that method again.
So frequent were her repetitions of
this remark that the husband feels
sure If she is dead her body will not
be found in the water.
Once after her attempted suicide at
Ocean Park she suddenly DISAPPEARED
again. on November 20 last, and after
an all night search was found lying
under the house. where she had crawled
and crouched for many hours in the
air space. She was not found until
the next morning.
E. A. Taylor the woman's husband,
passed the day yesterday and until a
late hour last night in Eastlake park
with three of the reporters from The
who spent the afternoon search
ing for the body and looking over the
lake. Taylor is young man, prema-
turely gray, and of rather striking ap-
pearance, though yesterday his face,
which was covered by a three days
growth of beard, showed the evidences
of his long nights of anxiety and
of foxtails, showing he had walked
many miles across the hills and among
the various sloughs and culvertS look
ing for his missing bride.
st have been searching for my wife
for over eighty hours" he said, 'in the
hope that 1 may find some clew or meet
who has seen her. The state
ment published in one of the afternoon
papers yesterday that my wife had been
i'll all her life and that she had always
suffered from nervousness was not cor
rect. She had been i'll for about one
year. Following a sudden breakdown,
caused by overstudy in music and by
the continued hard work of pumping
the pedals of the huge pipe organ in the
list oh, Of x1yhf
recently she was organist for several
years, she first disappeared from her
home on August 20, when she tried to
brown herself at Ocean Park. Her next
was on November 20,
when she crawled under the house and
was not found until the following
morning at 10 o'clock.
Miss Showalter as her name was at
hat time, had known me for some
ime We thought a great deal of each
,ther.
Closely Guarded
"She was more closely guarded than
,Ver after her last disappearance, but
lnder medical treatment her condition
apidly improved We believed that a
complete restoration of health would
'esult from her marriage, and two
months ago the ceremony. was per-
ormed in the presence of friends and
elatives at the home of her father,
Rowland Showalter, on South Union
venue.
"She was happy and contented. There
vas nothing in the world to mar the
elicity of our married life, but she was
IN ardent devotee of music and so
She insisted on teaching
music. and at the time of her disap-
earance had 140 music pupils. which.
f course, was too great number for
Ter to handle, but she was obdurate in
he matter of cutting down her work.
sat the time of my wife's disappear
nee last Friday she seemed in the best
f health and spirits and had been
lughing and chatting gayly all morn
ng. / kissed her goodby at o'clock
n the morning after a jolly breakfast.
nd went to the store. Later in the
1orning she talked to several neigh
ors. and all say she appeared in the
est of humor.
"She was seen to leave the house
bout $3.50 o'clock, wearing a white
hirt waist. dark blue serge skirt, faced
nth white and a long red coat. She
,as bareheaded.
II do not believe she has drowned
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