The daily progressive-miner., 1915-11-24
EDWARD KRAUSE Al
 PRUSSIAN l
MRS. CHRISTIE'S LIFE UP TO
 THE PRESENT TIME
lFrom the Juneau Empirel

(From the Juneau Empirel
 The name of Mrs. William Chris tie has been used frequently in con nection with the disappearance of her husband. and in discussing the relation of Edward Krause to the abduction of Christie and his appar- entlY enforced absence. However. little has been said that would en- able the public to form an opinion as to the appearance and character OS Mrs. Christie Ia all the insesti- cations the EIe,,ire has maie, not d Nord of detra. ton has been spok- .en of Ter. In appearance, she is about five feet six inches in heirat, has a slender form. grey eyes, very dark brown, almost black hair, is rather good looking and appears to be very intelligent. She is native of Alsace-Lorraine. 8 former French province, lost to Germany as re suit Of the Franco-Prussian war of 1870. She was reared in the city of Mulhausen, having been born there ihirty-two years ago. At the age of sixteen she went to Havre, France where she immediately embarked for this country, landing in New York and going from there to Massachus- ettS. In this state she lived for some time Tn the towns of New ton Center and Milton, where she canned her living as a seamstress and dressmaker. From there she vent 10 Newark, N. J., where she lived eleven years. There she met John Gaseous. her first husband, who was also an Alsatian. After living in Newark about year. sine was married, and continued to live there until her removal. with her husband and family, to Petersburg, Alaska, little more than five years ago.
 krause a Prussian
 Mrs. 0. Widen,ann of Douglass, 8 sister of Mrs. Christie, said yes terday to an Empire interviewer that Krause told her he was 9 native Of East Prussia, having been reared near Koenigsberg, near the inter national boundary line between Prussia and Poland Krause told the officers who arrested him at Seattle that he was half German and half Swede, but this statement was made, 1t was reported, while he was representing himself as Ole Noe, whom the Seattle authorities claim krause put out of the way and then mpersonated to suit the ad- vantage.
 Plunket Mystery Deepens
 s'The mystery of Jim Plunkett disappearance still Is unsolved. The friends of Plunkett are certain that he has been killed, and they declare that the evidence indicates Krause made away with Plunket.
 sThe finding of Plunkett's sig nature among Krause's effects, by the Seattle authorities, only strengthens the belief of Plunkett's friends that Krause murdered him
 ''The only clue to Plunkett's ab- senee is the typewriter letter to the customs house, at the end of which Plunkett's name had been traced, advising the customs house that the Iue', Plunkett's boat had burned in Hobart Bay. and that PlEzkett had been taken to Wrang- ell by a fishing boat, and would leave Wrangell for Seattle The Fmrs learned that PIunkett F. not been seen in Wrangell, and tha. 10 man Of that name had bought steamer ticket there just prior to, on. or just after October 27. Fur therrnore. Plunkett's friends say, the letter was shown to have hoo-
 on the same typewriter that wrote the letter to Mir. Christie of Douglas.
 No Trace of Boat
 Hobart Bay, in which the Lue s allege to have burned, is the next bay below Windham Bay and is a. bout 12 miles this side of Five Fingers Light. It was just off Hobart Bay that the Krause boat was last seen. Deputy Marshal Walter Sharpe, who recently re- turned from that section states tha. he was in Hobart Bay and cn- along the shore foot by foot anS that there was no sign whatever of burned of wrecked boat any where in that vicinity.