The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1913-06-04
Hunt in Shoals About Plum,
Beach ConvinceS House.
man Wife Is Alive.
SEARCHING ALL SHACKS.
Husband Believes She May
Be Held a Prisoner by Cap.
tors After Robbery.

Out Of the dank meadows Of - trass
and the slugsish. interminable crab
roosts Of the waterways shout Jamaica
and Sheepshead Bays, comes no word
or sign to lghten the mystery surround
Ing the disappearance last Saturday
evening Of Mn. Olga Housman. Her
drifting. abandoned boat; q shred OF
cloth eight inches square and torn from
the waist the young woman wore WHEN
she lsft the Plum Beach camp for .
solitary COW; . broken oar lying by The
strip Of cloth in the bottom OF the skifR
-these are the only clues TO . possible
tragedy which the Distracted husband
and che police aiding him In his search
have 70 work upon.
YET know--I am positive my wife IL
still alive" was the assurance Alfonso.
her husband. gave It his homo, No. ~
Padhc street. Brooklyn. to-day, uncon.
sciously adding to his positivsness stiii
another element OF mystery to the secret
% 5ealously held by the drcary march
lands and bayous about Plum Island.
sHAck.To-SHAck SEARCH ON
ALL the ISLANDS.
To-day" Hpusman added. ''ths DO
lice are going to help me make q shack
to-shack canvas Of all the little summer
bungalows and huts on all the islands
and meadows In tho vicinity Of Plum
Island. believe my wife Ia being held
. prisoner in one of them and that We
are bound to hnd her.
Houseman, who spent all day ysstsr.
day In the Canarsie harbor police launch
going over the shallow channels between
Rich's Meadows and Willet's Hassoci.
through which Mrs. Houseman must
have pushed her skiff when she LET the
camp at dusk on Saturday night. ex-
plained to-day that after the observa-
tions made In the shaiiower creeks and
| the DRAGGING conducted In tho deeper
| waterways lying In the channels OF
sheepshead Bay there was no possible
ground for believing that his wife had
fallen from her boat and been drowned.
In most Of the twisting water courses
through the eel grass meadows a body
would have lodged At low tide and could
have been discovered ere this. From
the location Of the empty boat. found
In Gerritsen's Creek, Il was evident that
Mrs. Houseman had not progressed far
out into the inlet when tho circumsta nee
that encompassed her disappearance oc.
| CURED.
1T was near O'clock" Housernan
explained. "when some men living In a
bungalow on Wiliet's Has,ock heard out
OF the dark womans voice crying.
40 ha 40
This WIS about half an bour fter my
wife had ieft the Plum Beach landing.
and she must have rowcd through
Leeds Creek half way about Wiilet's
Hassock when her screams were heard
BELIEVES CHE WAS FOLLOWED
~ ANOTHER BOAT.
IN was Nst at this point on wiilets
oar ana the piece Of cloth from my
wife's waist In II, was found on Monday.
I am convinced that when she put out
from Plum Beach on Saturday night
she passed somebody who might have
been fishing or dallyIng about the
waters of the island: that the person,
or persons. In this boat caught the
flash Of the rings she wore on her hands
and followed her through the gathering
darkness until they closed In with her
in the marrow waterway on the Has
sock.
There must have been a struggle.
for the piece OF green cloth we found In
the bottom. OF the abandoned skin was
not torn a. II BY catching on tho oar
lock. and did not lie near the oarlock.