Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1912-07-27
ANOTHER SUITOR FOUND
WHO WAS ONCE FIANCE

WIN w AD OiN0E TIAINCE
Wesley Hawkins of Mount Ver-
non Was Forbidden the House
After Wedding Trousseau
Had Been Completed and later
Made Threats and Has Per-
sisted In His Attentions,
Which Were Unpleasant and
DiscOncerting.
The story concerning the disappear
ance of Miss Dorcas Snodgrass and
her engagement to DR.. Smith and the
superstition that she had returned 20
her old love and eloped with him
when he sailed for Europe last Thus
day which appeared in the Baltimore
Sun and other city papers under a
Martinsburg date line Thursday Is
branded by those quoted as a fabri-
cation made of the whole cloth and
utterly without any foundation n
fact and the product OF the fertile
brain of the local correspondent of
the papers.
Those who are quoted at length as
being of the opinion that Miss Snod-
grass has eloped with DR. Smith.
who was siintil recently a House Sur
geon in the Mt. Vernon Hospital,
where Miss Snodgrass was a nurse,
deny that they gave any such inter-
view, and say that they have no more
idea of the solution of the disappear
ance OF the Martinsburg girl than has
the general public. All they know $
what they have read in the papers
and the information that has been
obtained by The World and given 20
the friends of the family here.
Mrs. crider Denies Engagement
When Mrs. John L. Crider, of Mt.
Vernon, N. Y. sister of the missing
girl was told of the statement made
by her sister which appeared in the
morning papers she said it was be-
yond understanding.
"Dorcas never was engaged to- DR..
Smith," she said. 81 should like to
know how it ever got into the head Of
Virginia that she even liked him. |
never heard her refer to him except
laughingly. 1t was seldom that she
mentioned his name. He came to tho
hospital last September; she sarted
in there in the July preceding He is
a small Russian and never had any
thing to do with any of the nurses
Dorcas never saw him outside of the
hospital and he was never at the
house Certainly she would have lei
the fact slip in some way if she had
considered him a candidate for her
heart. l never heard of more alb,
surd story"
Miss Land, supervisor of the Mount
Vernon Hospital, laughed at the pos ii
bility of Miss Snodgrass having elop
ed with DR.. Smith.
"The dates of their leaving the hos
pital were very close together. that
is true" she said, but it is merely I
coincidence. Had there been anything
between them | would have learned q
it, Miss Snodgrass was never seen
with him. He never associated out
side with nurse from this institution
and every one of the nurses is in bee
here at 10 o'clock every night. In Dc
small hopital as this a love affair
between two of the attaches absolute
ly could not have been kept secret
Miss Daisy Miller, who roomed
with Miss Sncdgrass at the. hospita
spoke on the same line. In fact. ne
one was found in Mount Vernon who
regarded the rumor highly AS proc
of that the reward of $500 was Offered
yesterday afternoon by Mrs. Cridel
after conference with her brothers
e. Kelley Snodgrass, OF Berryvill'
and William It. Snodgrass another
brother of lockwood, Pa. They thin
that Dorcas is still in New York. Yes
terday the brothers spent the after
noon in the shopping district The sto
ny of Phoebe Cummings, the maid {
Mrs. Gibson, that she saw Dorca!
walking along Twenty-third stree
near Sixth avenue on Monday after
noon convinees them that she is stay
ing In New York, though they ar
puzzled over her financial ability t.
do so. SO far as known, she had onl.
$40 when she left home.
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