The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1909-08-28
LINK YEEDA LODGE
WITH DISS DE- BAR
Police Seek Facts Regarding
New Jersey House.
NOTORIOUS WOMAN MISSING
Several Months Ago Two Women,
One of Whom Resembles Mrs.
French, of the Mabatma Institute,
Leased House Near Mrs. Mary f..
wilkins Freeman-RecentIy Left.

New York. Aug 27.-The police are stu
looking for Ann O'Delia Diss De Bar.
Not that they want her for anything
that they know OF; but a woman Of Diss
De Bars history IS always a welcome
caller at police headquarters. The de-
tective bureau has a way Of making the
city uncomfortable for people Ike Diss
De Bar.
From down in Metuchen, n. J., there
comes a report that the woman recently
was living there. 1t seems that some
thing ike three months ago, two wom-
en- took house In Metuchen not far
from Mrs. Mary E. Wilkins Freeman's
home.
After they had established themselves
in the house. sign appeared over the
door with the inscription ''Veeda Lodge -
At least. "Veeda" is the way the neigh
bors remember the spelling. but it may
have been "Veed-ha." Either way. the
name is reminiscent Of Diss De Bar, who.
in her latest enterprise. has been calling
herself Nine. A-Diva Veed-Ya-"
Close Resemblance Seen.
Mrs Wright. one Of the women. is de-
scribed as a good looking blond woman
Of about thirty-ive years. good address.
and OF evident intelligence.
So far the description might apply to
Mrs Lillian Hobart French president OF
the Mahatma Institute. at 30 East Thirty
third street. in which Mime Veed-Ya"
was to be the lecturer on esoterics.
Mrs. French tonight. however. denied
positively and with some animation that
she had lived In Metuchen. that she was
the Mrs. Wright who leased the ''Veeda
Lodge" and that she had been anywhere
but right here In Manhattan for many
months The description given Of Mrs.
Thompson. although meager, also TALES
with that OF Diss De Bar.
Two others made up the household at
'Veeda Lodge" One OF these was a
I young man, somewhere between TWEEN
ty-fve and thirty-fve. who. from what
J tho neighbors say OF his appearance,
might easily be mistaken for David Liv-
| ingston Mackay. Diss De Bars cupbearer.
I The other was a boy perhaps fifteen
years old, whom the neighboTs took 10
/ be Mrs. Wrlght's son. His place In the
Diss De Bar-French hypothesis seems TO
I be undecided.
The occupants Of "veeda Lodge" did
not seek intimacy with their neighbors,
or even acquaintanceship. Visitors TO the
/ lodge were frequent. both men and wom-
en-. 50 far as could be learned the great
majority OF these were people OF al
least middle age.
/ No advertising was done. locally. any
/ how, by the Veeda Lodge folks: and Il
\ they were running a mahatma or other
/ occult institute" they did not take thell
! fellow-townsmen generally into their con.
] hdence or ask their patronage
Leave for New York.
Things went on n the Metuchen house
in this quiet sort OF way until two week,
ago last Monday, when Mrs Wright hired
W. F. Rule, a local expressman. 10 hau
all the family movables to New York. and
the quartet LEFT, bag and baggage. Mr.
Rule got cagey when asked where h,
had taken the single load OF furnitur,
and things, and decided not 10 tell. ex
cept that no had driven them 10 Man
haitian
SO much for Metuchen contribution Il
the days developments OF the Diss d,
Bar case.
People who have been keeping an ey,
on both the outside and the inside o.
the house at 30 East Thirty-third street
where Mrs. French has her roU-top desl
and photograph OF F. Augustus Heinz
and Diss De Bar had her white throne
insisted to-day that there was a stool
ticker on the second floor OF the fnsti
tute. and that there was also telephon,
connection between the room OF tn
ticker and the room of the throne on IN,
ground floor.