New-York tribune., 1910-11-22

:. ...rho,--e kirking because 7 use so |
,,,.,,-n,+onns What do they know about
1,-.ro They don't know how many
letters have to write during the day
A. tho time of his disappearance, in |
1ao5 lewis was engaged to be married
n Miss Ellen Enrisht. trained nurse.
p,,+ william, s-ritchley says that this was
NOT his 47rst marriage engagement
w.,t Away on Wedding Day.
THAT was not his first engagement
Cr;tchIAv said last night. He had a |
ao1a -i,,1 ~, his finger that he had given
r. the other girl and that she had given |
Lo1- "a hin, when he go1 engage to
,ties Fnrigbt he wanted to give her that |
ring. but she wouldn't have it She said |
that she wanted a new ring or not any
She said she wouldn't have ring that
another girl had worn
Lewis disappeared on January 1s. |
1oo5 The dav that he was to be married |
to Miss Enright-
Miss Enright was a fine girl" said |
Tom CritchIey, and we knew for six or
! eight months that Willie was going to !
,,orrv her few weeks before they
uara 70 be married he said that he |
wanted to bring her around here TO meet |
/ US
She told US that she had made trip |
| to Europe about six months before and |
/ that she had stopped in Ireland to see
/ his folks. She said that his father was |
/ a retired police captain and he had one |
/ brother who was a school teacher, and 1 |
understood that another was a priest |
Willie was well educated man himself |
4 never heard him mention the nan1e !
of the Meag aghers" Mr. CritchIey said in |
answer to a question Il never knew he |
knew any such people l have heard him |
| talk about an artist named Callers, and |
| I know he had some OF Caliers's pict- |
ures. He gave me one once 1 gave it |
to Reagan"
! 4 kept it until moved said Reagan. !
! and then l threw It away I under !
stood that he knew Callers pretty we'll |
/ but he never brought him down here"
Willie disappeared on his wedding |
/ day, in January, 1905 Tom Critchley |
! said. We made the wedding cake, and !
my. wife tied the ribbons on the boxes |
| for tho cake. The Friday before the day |!
! for the wedding he and Miss Enright |
went 10 mass together, and the next |
Sunday they took communion together |
Reported Disappearance TO Police.
The Gay after the wedding was 70 be !
/ Miss Enright's brother-in-law came in here |
and wanted to know where that man |
| Lewis was.
! " I don't know, I said. lie was mar
ried last night
Then the brother-in-law told US that |
Willie had not come that Miss Enright |
was left standing at the altar. Then he |
! cut loose.
! I knew something was wrong and a |
| day or two later Miss Enright came TO see
| US advised her TO advertise for Willie !
but she said she didn't want the notorfety !
She came for several days, and stays all
! day with my daughter Sadie. Then one |
! day she said she guessed she and Sadie !
would take a walk
! Il knew where they we're going but !
didn't say anything. and they went AMI /
| put a personal advertisement in one Of !
| the papers telling Willie to come back and !
she would forgive him everything. She !
said she didn't care if he didn't marry !
her, he needn't if he didn't want to, but |
she wanted to know what had happened !
10 him
7 went 10 the police then and told /
them about il 1 was around with the
police for week, but We didn't find any !
thing. I guess we all know where Willie
! is now
CIouds1ey tells the same story about the |
disappearance Of Lewis in 1905, but he adds /
detail of A letter that seemed TO have
caused Lewis TO vanish Lewis was living /
with CIoudslev at that time.
Lewis was going 10 get married. Clouds
ley said yesterday. He had packed I'D his
trunks and sent everything away He was
going TO live with his brother-in-law, and /
he sent Els trunks over there. Ny wife and
I saw them packed. He had some books
and clothes and things like that in them
Lewis never tried 10 conceal anything. On
the day he was TO be married he got a let
ter. Ny wife took il in to him, and when he
read it he was very much excited. It seemed
to worry him a great deal. He packed a
suitcase with q few clothes and went awav
and We never saw or heard OF him after
ward I thought he had gone TO be mar
ried until heard that he had disappeared. D."
Never Heard Hin, Speak OF Women.
Mrs. Meagher said yesterday that she
had never heard Lewis speak of Miss En-
right She said that she had first known
Lewis III le'f
1T vas when 7 was keeping company
with my husband" she said, and he used
70 come around to my mothers house. Ny
mother and all of them knew him. I didn
see him after I married until 1892.
don't know whether my husband saw him
or rot"
Thomas Pryor, a waiter in Healeys
restaurant, at No. So6 Third avenue, said
Yesterday that he had known Lewis well
for several years. and had roomed with
him in several places
4 saw Lewis last in the fall of 1904
he said, when he asked me 10 be the
best man at his wedding. I have never
seen him since then"
Miss Ellen Enright. who was to be mar
ried TO Lewis in January. 1896 has been
in Ridgeheld. Conn. for several months
She said last night that Lewis had come to
visit her the night before they We're to
be married and that was the last time
she had seen him. She did not know
whether he had false teeth CT not.
She said that she had visited I,ewis's
family IN Ireland, but that she had heard
nothing Of the Meaghsrs While she was
there and she never heard Lewis speak OF