The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1919-01-24
TRAINED NURSE MAY
HELP SOLVE MYSTERY
Third Person In Case of Dead Woman
of the River May Help Police Ac-
count for Victims Death.
AWAIT HADLEY'S ARREST.
Former Medical Lieutenant Believed
to lie I'm Texas, Where He Prac-
ticed Medicine Before the Wat
Married in Galveston.

Entrance OF SShe Eternal Triangle
INTO the mystery of The dead woman
Of the river has CONNECTED the name
# a trained nurse with that of former
Lieutenant Hadley in the death of the
woman who is said TO have been Had
leV's wife, This nurse. said 10 be the
affinity of the suspected man. is be-
ilesed To know something of impor
lance to the police. for ii is suspected
that for her sake the wife of the
former army officer gave her life
Details of one OF the most sensa-
tional murders in the history of this
STATE may he couched in what Lieu
tenant Hadley may know about tho
woman whose body is in Nelson's
morEue. This is the belief OF those
closely in touch with the case of the
suspected medical man. Richmond
police have now the skeleton of a
story which they believe can be filed
out in a short time with all the de-
tails necessary TO make complete an
account of as grucsomc a crime as
ever confronted them in this city.
Hadley, who is believed TO be in
Texas where it is reported, he had
gone with the muse several weeks
ago. may be arrested AT any hour
The warrant for his arrest is worded
so as to hold him without placing
specific charge against him. 1t is I'M
dersteod. His complete record is in
the hands of the police.
1t is not known as yet how the wife
of the lieutenant met her death. 1t
may have been suicide. is the conten-
ton in some quarters. but the pres
ence of the wire wrapped about her
body when II was discovered hanging
against the roots of a tree in the
river, tends TO diSpei the idea of self
destruction. The coroner's inquest
discovered no signs of murder, but il
is believed the body had lain in the
water 50 long that traces of drugs
would have been washed away or
would have vaniShe q in face of the
physical decomposition
Mrs, Hadley came to Richmond last
August. to be with her husband, who
had been assigned to the Westhamp-
ton hospital for duty. She took IN
lodgings on Park avenue, but after
about m,ntn moved 10 1925 West
Grace street, securing rooms with
Mrs. E.-G. Clarke. One evening in
December Hadley came TO take his
wife for a walk. and later returned
without her. He stated that she had
met some friends from the North
who were touring Virginia and had
gone away with them.
Told Weird Tales.
The doctor is said to have explained
IN various Contradicling ways the alb
sence OF his wife. and after the failure
of the police to fix a definite clue In
the case of the unidentified woman,
Mrs. Clarke is said to have suspected
something wrong. She viewed the
clothing found on the unfortunate
river victim, and pronounced them
the ones she had seen Mrs. Hadley
wear. Other persons supplemented
her statement.
A warrant was issued for Hadley
then, after the facts of I he disappear
ance of his wife were made known.
But Hadley could not be found, and
investigation led to the belief that he
had fed with the trained nurse with
whom an infatuation is said to have
arisen
The suspected man is a graduate of
the Medical College of the University
of Texas, and was licensed to practice
medicine in 1918. He started a pri-
waite hospital in Eagle, Col, but did
not stay there long. He practiced in
other Colorado towns, and later went
to Dallas. Texas and then to Calves
ton. In Galveston he married Miss
Tinsley about five years ago. ii is said.
and her mother and father are both
dead, 1t is understood.