The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-07-13
AUTHOR BE-
.L|EVEsDAUGHTER
WAS MURDERED
HER JEWELS WERE MISSING
WHEN THE BODY WAS
FOUND

Hollis. L. l.. July 13--Jomes Coop
er Wheeler, author of There she
Blows" and many other stories OF
adventure, has asked the police of
Denver, Col, 10 investigate the
death of his daughter. Miss Candace
Wheeler, who was drowned near
there on June %.
Mr., Wheeler took this step after
the officials OF the Pennsylvania
Mutual and the Connecticut
mad started Independent investiga-
tions. Miss Wheeler had $4,000
life insurance policies in these com
panies.
while we do not say that Miss
Wheeler was murdered, Emil Sch
neelock of Hollis, l. L., who is the
authors legal representative. said
last night, there are circumstances
which We regard as most suspic
ious.
The despasches from Denver said
that Miss Wheeler. who was thirty
years old and a social favorite. went
in an automobile with a party to
Bowls Lake. which is at Littleton,
Col. about ten miles from Denver.
She is said to have got into a row
ooat By herself. saying that she was
ssoing to catch fish, In some way,
dispatches say. she lost an oar. and
in endeavoring to get it she fell
into the water and was drowned.
Her JeweIry Missing.
The body was not recovered un-
til July 2 Then it was found that
all her jewelry was missing. except
a necklace. which she clasped in her
hands and which had been broken
from her neck. This necklace
dropped from her hand into the
water as the body wa sbeing got
out
~Mr Wheeler, who is a neighhor
OF mine here in Hollis, is sixty-fye
years old and the condition of his
health is such that doctors have told
him it would be dangerous for him
TO venture into the high Denver al
tltude. On learning that his daugh-
ters death was suspicious he tele-
graphed and then wrote Mrs. EN-
ma George of Denver. a warm per-
sonal friend of Miss Wheeler, who
was supposed to have been an eye
witness to the drowning. Mrs.
George did not answer either com
Next Mr.. Wheeler wrote to Otto
Meyer who is supposed to live in
and who was engaged
to Marry Miss Wheeler. Again no
answer came.
Then he learned of the investi-
CATION being pursued by the two
insurance companies. and we en-
ployed Denver lawyers to represent
us and get at the real facts
1t was found that all Miss
Nheeler's life Insurance was in
favor of Or. J. Fl. Meyer of Denver.
he is a brother of the man she was
reported to be engaged to-
WiIIed All to Fianoe.
Among her effects also was will
which left her entire property to
Otto Meyer, and making his brother.
the doctor, sole executor. We judge
that outside the life insurance Miss
Wheeler lett ABOUT $1,000 or $12,
zoo
'If Miss Wheeler did not drown
after q struggle with some one, it is
most strange that all the jewelry
she wore should be missing except
the broken necklace, and the way
she was clinging TO it certainly in
iicates that she was endeavoring to
save it after being attacked by some
person who wanted it.
And we have not been able to
find any one who admits having
seen Miss Wheeler drown"
Until four years ago Miss Wheel
er, who is the daughter OF the an
Lhor's first wife. lived in New York
She went to Denver with her moth
sr, and after the latters death a
year ago she continued 10 make that
city her home.
Nineteen months ago she came
east to see her father and remained
with him some time Father and
laughter were devoted to each
)ther and corresponded regularly.