Evening star., 1909-06-04
MISS 6ARWOoD IS IN PARIS
SUCCESS OF WARNING AGAINST
FIANCE STILL IN DOUBT.
Possibility That Bogus Nobleman Is
Physician Who Has Practiced for
Years in New York.

So far as can be ascertained, the State
Department has received no Information
as to the success or failure Of efforts
made to prevent the marriage of Miss
Isabella Garwood of New York and the
alleged bogus Austrian nobleman.
The latest information received at the
department concerning the affair was that
the lady in question had left the Hotel
Cecil in London and had gone to the Con-
tinental Hotel. in Paris.
The officials of the department will not
say anything about the case for publca
ton. They desire to have it understood
that the only action taken by the gov
ernment was to transmit in code to the
ambassadors at London and Paris the
message received in this city from the
sister of the young lady.
Identity of Man in Case.
While mystery still surrounds the iden-
tity of the alleged bogus nobleman, re-
ports from New York, which cannot be
confirmed in Washington. are to the eff
feet that he is a physician who has been
practicing in New York city for a num-
ber of years.
The suspicion that the physician Is the
man in question is based upon circum-
stantial evidence. On April II one of the
New York papers contained a cablegram
from 1drIS announcing tHe engagement
of Miss Isabella Garwood, second daugh-
ter of the late Hamilton G. Garwood Of
New York. to one of the same name as
the physicians
Ali efforts to extract from officials of
the State Department either confirmation
or denial regarding the alleged connec-
tion of the physician with the affair
have proved futile. The Rev. John T..
Quinn. pastor of the Church of the AS
cension who accompanied Miss Frances
A. (SarWOOd when she went Monday
solicit the aid of the State Department
officials In warning her sister, is equally
reticent.
DR.. Quinn Will Not Speak.
What l know of the affair." says DIR.
Quinn, Il learned through confidential
communications that l cannot betray."
Not only from one but from several
sources have these condolences been re-
| posed in me. 1t would be impossible for
me to discuss the matter in any of its
| phases"
| DR.. Quinn would not even deny that the
man in the case was the physician whose
name has been mentioned in this connec-
ton. Asked the direct question he ret-
Grated his former statement that he could
answer no question.
Physician Has Disappeared.
| 1t has been learned in New York that
! the physician has moved from his former
| residence, and his whereabouts is un-
known to his associates.
| The cablegram regarding the issue of
| the marriage license Gives his address as
| Padua. By curious coincidence the New
| York physician of the same name as the
| man mentioned in the marriage license
graduated in medicine at Padua.
! The Investigations by the Italian and
| Austrian amba bassadors here have resulted
in the discovery that the man in the case
| is not an Italian. but a native of Austria
and a naturaliZed American.
| Miss Frances Garwood was at the State
Department yesterday, and. it is said, in
| formed the officials that the man to whom
her sister was about to be married had
been practicing physician OF some prom
inence In New York, most of his practice
being among the foreign element Nand
that he was about sixty years old The
woman he was to have married is said to
| be about forty years of age.
| The New York physician is said to have
wife and son living In New York.
! Whether he has obtained a divorce from
his New York wife is not known.
Beyond allowing Miss Frances Garwood
the use of its secret coue to warn her
sister against her prospective husband
the State Department is taking no action
whatever in the case. and will not make
public any information in Its possession.