Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-02-18
BESSIE GUYER IS
ALIVE AND WELL
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to reside. While here she needed
some work done on her teeth and went
to the office of DR.. Ayres, at South
Second street. Mrs. Campbell says
she believes that while her sister was
having the WORK done, the dentist
mentioned that he was trying to get
a young girl to look after his two
small children. Bessie Guyer was men,
toned and it was Bessie Guyer who
was employed as the child nurse. Mrs.
Campbell says that TO her recollection,
she did not remain with the dentists
FAMILY more than Lnree or four months
and that then she went to her home in
Williamson and not Mechanicsburg, as
DIR. Ayres had thought Mrs. Camp
bell said that at the time she was en-
ployed by DR.. Ayres. she was thirteen
years old
Some time after Bessie Guyer left
the Ayres' home, the dentist and his
family moved from this city, going to
Philadelphia and from there to York.
According to Mrs. Campbell's story,
the Ayres' have made several efforts
to have her return to their home and
that it was not more than four years
ago that Mrs. Ayres communicated
with her and asked her to come to
York. She was married, however, and
would not comply with the request.
Defends DIR. Ayres
III do not see why DIR. Ayres' name
has been brought into the case" said
Mrs. Campbell. ~ always found him
a perfect gentleman and / will say that
If murder was committed in that
house, my former employer knows
nothing of 1t. 1t must have been COM
mitted since he left there. AS far as
am concerned, | can say that / am
very much alive and have not been
murdered and buried in cellar"
Besides Mrs. Harssy, Mrs. Campbell
aiG
of Sharpsburg. Md, whose maiden
name was Miss Lottie Guyer, and n
brother Walter, who also lives in the
Maryland town.
Strange Coincidence Turns Up
strange coincidence was developed
Guyer was living or dead. In the in
vestigation made by Telegraph men in
Mechanicsburg, it was learned that a
girl named Guyer and her mother had
been deserted by the father about
1889. 1t could not be recalled. 1t
could not be recalled that the girls
first name was Bessie but it was un-
derstood that she hod not been seen
for about fifteen years. Information
brought out the fact that the girl was
about thirteen years old at the time
she left Mechanicsburg. Then came
some faint recollection that the moth
er had given the child to a Mechanics
DuTb ldlllly TO RAISE. fuTIlleT Inquiry
led to the finding of the mother living
in a little house along the side of the
mountains back of Enola. To this
place, through siX-inch mud, a Tele-
graph reporter travelled. The mother.
Mrs. william Guyer, was found and
she said that her daughters name was
Edith and that she was living in Phil
adelphia Gnu was married to a man
named Fred Glorious. She said she
never knew of her daughter working
for DIR. Ayres and a telegram to the
daughter herself certified this. Edith
Guyer was born in 1888 and in 1901
was 13 years old, the same age as the
Bessie Guyer VINO was SO much sought
after. The girls are now the same age
but are not related.
In an interview with DR.. Ayres this
morning, the York dentist had this to
say:
81, too, learned that Bessie
Guycr, my former maid, was liv-
ing in Chambersburg, and that
she is married and has several
children.
L wasn't worried a bit about the
matter from the start, because
/ was sure we would locate her.
am glad, however, that the matter
has been cleared up, because it put
me in a rather ugly light in the
eyes of some people" .