Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1919-11-29
MURDER OF GIRL
| ON RIDGE ROAD
MAY Be SOLVED
Authorities Confine Their e.
forts to Running Down
Clue That Body Is That
Of Waitress.

VI WdIlItSS.
With all but one clue having been
run down by the authorities in their
efforts to discover the identity oil
the mystery woman, whose body
was found in a ravine ID miles north
or Omaha November 20, detectives
working on the case yesterday de-
clared their single hope of solving
the problem, which has attracted the
attention of the entire middle west
and baffled the police of half dozen
cities for more than week, lies in
the probability that the dead woman
NAV have been Miss Alice Massette,
waitress, who formerly worked in
Omaha and Des MONIES restaurants,
and whose parents are said to live in
CoIfax, la.
The body was identified at the
Gentleman undertaking establish
mcnt several days ago by two
women, who told the police they
were sure the body was that of Miss
Massette, their former chum and
roommate.
Miss Massette was seen few
days before her disappearance in
Louie Ahko's chop suey restaurant,
Fifteenth and Harvey streets, by
walters who claim to have known
the girl, in the company OF former
employee of the restaurant.
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The woman's escort is said to
have disappeared the day following
the discovery of the body.
The man is said to have been her
former common-law husband, and,
according to friends of the girl,
avoided her company after marrying
another woman. The Tilted woman
also is said to have been extremely
active in her efforts to cause her
former sweetheart grief and embar-
rassment. Friends of the girl told
the police, they heard the man
threaten to kill her a half dozen
times. if she did not let him alone.
Detectives have been unable to
find any one who has seen either
the man or woman alive since they
dined in the chop suey restaurant
together
This fact, together with the state
ment of the coroner's physician at
the inquest that there was chicken
and chop suey in the dead woman's
stomach, which had been eaten less
than an hour before she was killed,
is taken to indicate that the couple
left the restaurant Immediately upon
finishing their meal and the woman
was murdered a. short while after
wards. 1t is believed all marks of
identification were destroyed on the
clothing, or perhaps the body was
given complete change of clothing,
and later taken in an automobile out
on the Ridge road, hurled over the
embankment into the ravine and the
man returned to Omaha. .,
Can't Locate Family.
All efforts of,the local authorities
10 reach members of the dead girls
family in Colfax have proven of no
avail. Messages sent by the Omaha
police to the departments in Lin
coin, Des Moines, Kansas City and
Chicago seeking the apprehension
Of the fugitive waiter have remained
unanswered, according to Detective
Chief John T. Dunn.
j The man is said to have had
large amount of money when he
left Omaha without noti-
fying any of his friends. His wife
: believed to be living in Kansas
City.
/, Miss Massette is known to. have
worked in the Douglas cafe, 1916
Douglas street, fews months ago.
At one time, it is said, she was en-
,ioYed in the Harvey street restau-
ant. Recently, according to her
friends in this city, she went to Des
sioines and for awhile was en-
,loyed there. She is said to have
'cturned to Omaha and renewed
her efforts to embarrass her for
ner lover and his wife. The wait
RS wife was visiting in Kansas City
when the girl returned to this city,
ind he was seen several times re-
emily with Miss Massette. They
ire said to have quarreled a great
leal.
Advances New Theory.
John A. Gentleman, at whose I'm
parlors, 3411 Farnam
treet, the body has been lying for
he past week, advanced a new
hcory yesterday morning for the
,olice to work on in the event Miss :
Iasette's identity is not established. <
dr. Gentleman declared he recently !.
'uried the child of woman named :
hattie Gore, who had been living in n
Council Bluffs, and who also for r
nerly lived in Colfax, la. He de- =,
Jared the father of the baby lived :,
Il Council Bluffs also and had re- -
used to marry the girl he wronged. = -
Miss Gore is said to have made a.
epeated efforts to prevail on the A,
nan to marry her, and when the "
hid died she appealed to him to
ssume the responsibility for its