The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-12-29
ADELAIDE BRANCE
IS SPIRITED AWAY
Under Friendly Cover OF Dark
ness, Leaves Jail and Goes
to Nearby Retreat.
ELUDES ALL NEWSPAPER MEN
Fails TO Sell Mortgages and Says
Positively She Will Not
Go on Stage.
ELUDES ALL NEWSPAPER MEN
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.

Monticello, N. Y. December os-Ade-
laide Brance is no longer voluntary
prisoner In the Monticello Jail Under
the friendly cover Of darkness. between
and o'clock this morning, she was
spirited away by Sheriff Kinnie and his
assistants, and is now somewhere in
the West. probably with her brother
II. y. Brance. The agreement between
brother and sister was that she leave
Monticello last night or early this
morning and he would meet her.
II was learned tonight that Adelaide
Brance was taken to n retreat less than
ten miles from here, and that she will
stay there for two weeks, when she
VIII go to Palmer, Ioya, to live her
brother, William. A few hours after
her secret flight. when besieged by
newspaper men and the excited VII
iasers. Sheriff Kinnie. her guardian
during her retreat into the county jail
left town, taking with him his family.
Sheriff Kinnie declined until forced
TO by District Attorney George L. Cooke
to admit that this woman soldier of
fate and fortune had left the Jail. "I
VIII not say whether she is here or
not" he declared to reporters TT is
none of your affair"
Admits She Is Gone.
MT. Cooke. amazed by the sudden and
stealthy departure of Miss Brance
called up the sheriff in Liberty
sheriff. "She went before daybreak A
motor car called for her. l do not
know who took her. I did not ask
them who they were. She was at lib
erty to go where she chose"
Under-Sheriffs Hall and Beecher
Sherif Kinnie laid upon them most
binding. instructions to keep their
mouths closed. but David Avery
knows all about It," they declared.
David Avery, bosom friend of Couch
and former sheriff, denied that he
knew where or when Miss Brance had
gone.
1T was agreed yesterday" Avery
admitted, that Miss Brance would
leave before daybrealS Sunday. 1t
was also agreed that we keep the facts
secret She told us that she was to
meet her brother Herbert at Sidney.
and that he was to start her of for
Paimer, Iowa, where her brother Will
nam lives. She said also that she
would remain for week or so I'm
some sanatorium, where she could re-
gain her health"
The statement was given out to the
reporters last night from the sheriff's q
oifice that Miss Brance would not leave
Monticello before Monday The news
paper men believed otherwise and
camped around the outside OF the pris-
on until o'clock this morning with
automobiles in readiness to follow. At
that hour the cold became so intense
that they retired.
Gives Out No Information.
Sheriff Kinnie this morning refused
to deny or CONFIRM the fact that his
troublesome prisoner had left him; in
fact, he would give the newspaper men
no information. 1t was automatically
learned, however, that Miss Brance was
taken to Fallsburg Itaiton, q distance
of five miles from Monticello, at $3.50
o'clock this morning by Monticello
liveryman and there secreted in the
house of a friend of the sheriff until
s o'clock this morning. Then the
o'clock train carried her West A wo-
man answering her description. heavily
veiled, embarked on that train.
Miss Brance did not succeed in SELL
Ing her mortgages before her departure.
They were returned to her last night
by her attorney, and sho carried them
away with her. An offer to advance
her 5000 on the mortgages was refused.
Miss Brance was advised to accept the
offer made her by New York the
atrical manager of $500 a week to ap-
pear III vaudeville, but said she posi-
lively would not do so.
II loved my dead lover too dearly
to make money from the hotoriety his
death gave me-" she said. Why. I
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