Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-04-22
WATTS BY THE SHORE
Husband Watching for Creek
to Give Up Wife's Body.
NEARLY CONSTANT VIGIL
Disappearance Of Annapolis Women
Remains Unexplained.
WATERS ARE DRAGGED IN VAIN
Police Chief obery Convinced That
the Missing Ones Were
Drowned.
Special Dispatch to The Star

from Danes Quarter Somerset county
Md. the former home Of Mrs Dora
White and Miss Alice Shores. sisters. who
myster!ously disappeared April 5, are to
the effect that the women had not been
seen. setting at rest a persistent rumor
IT at they had returned there Relatives
in Baltimore also sent word that they
had seen nothing of the missing ones
The disappea rance seems to be even
more mysterious now than when they
failed to return home after leaving the
house of John H. White, 119 West
street, ostensibly to visit tie family Of
Asbury White.
Although an umbrella. hats and other
articles that belonged to the women have
been taken from Spa creek, a great ma
jority of the residents of the city be-
lieve they were not drowned. But Chief
of Police Charles Obery Is more firmly
Of the opinion that the women were
drowned than he was a week ago. He
is unable to understand, however. why
the bodies have not been recovered.
I'VE have done everything that We
could do declared the chief of police.
The affair is certainly a mysterious one,
time l had doubts about the bodies being
in the water, but l believe now that the
women We're drowned. Under what cir
cumstances they lost their lives l am
unable to suggest.
The question of asking Gov Crothers
to have Baltimore detectives make an eff
fort to solve the mystery is being dis
cussed, but the request has not yet been
made.
Watching by Shore of Greek.
John H. White husband of one of the
missing women, spends much time about
the shores Of Spa creek hoping every min
ute he will see one or both of the bodies
brought to the surface. He has taken
the articles recovered from the creek to
his home and is holding them there.
Should it develop that the women were
victims Of foul play the recovered articles
will play an important part in the fur
Their investigation of the affair.
Mr.. Whites five daughters are visiting
him during mis- affliction. One Of them,
Mrs. J. l.. Hyde, Is resident of Wash
ington, her husband being employed in
the navy yard.
I'VE are satisfied that Dora and her
sister were drowned" one of the daugh-
tiers said last night, and the suspense
is something terrible. Every time the
door bell rings we expect to get some
word about the finding of the bodies and
we are all becoming nervous over the
trouble
Mr.. White believes the bodies of the
women may have been covered with dirt
dumped at the end of a new street in the
Murray Hill section of Annapolis. A
water at that point was made by the
cousins of the women, however, without
result.
A Previous Disappearance.
All along 1t has been thought by Mr..
White and some of his close friends that
Mrs. White. who had suffered from nerv-
Gus prostration and Brights disease, had
become deranged and jumped overheard.
and that her sister lost her life in strug-
Cling to prevent her from ending her
life. That Mrs White had been under
q severe mental strain there can De no
doubt She had gone away from home
before and returned under conditions
which indicate her mind was temporarily
affected.
Early in February. it Is stated. she
went away from home In the morning
and returned after dark with her cloth
ing soaking wet, indicating she had been
in the water, while on another occasion
she is said to have gone into the WOODS
while laboring under mental aDerrauon'
and to have remained there until she Fe-
covered possession Of her senses.
Foul Play Suspected.
Thomas and Levin P. Kelly, resi-
dents of PASSPORT. are cousins of the
missing women. and they are taking
deep interest in the efforts that are
being made to solve the mystery, going so
far as to contribute to the reward OF
$3.50 that has been offered for its So
luton. Miss Alice Shores made her
home with the family of Thomas
u 81 thn 70, 6n
not believe she was drowned.
Il fear the ladies are victims OF foul
play" Thomas Kelly remarked last
night. and their bodies may be Sc
creted in the city. l cannot imagine.
however. why any person should want
great amount of money, nor did they
nave any enemies"
Dynamite has been used by the two
cousins. and today they were arrang-
noon near the Eastport bridge.
Not because We think the bodies are
In the river" said one of the cousins
but because We want to do everything
in our power to solve the mystery"
Had the women jumped from the
Eastport bridge. it is stated. they may
have gone in water fully fifteen feet
deep. but nobody believes they enter
ed the water at the bridge. The UNI
brella and the hats, 1t is thought,
creek as the place where they were
found
SCOTS at Suicide Pact.
Rejecting the rumor that there was a
suicide pact. Thomas Kelly said that
Miss Shores was a particularly bright
and CHEEKY woman. She was a big,
robust woman, he said. and she easily.
could have managed her sister. He says
he is certain that Miss Shores never
once contemplated suicide. She was de-
voted to her sister, and had been nurs-
ing her since February 4.
What puzzles me- said Mr. Kelly,
lis the fact that it seems that their
bodies could not possibly have remained
in Spa creek all this time without hav-
ing been found. and it does seem that
they cannot be in the creek
Mr.. Kelly denied a statement that