Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-25
MISSING DR.. HADLEY
REPORTED IN TEXAS
Nurse at Westhampton Under
stood to Be Under Police
Surveillance.
HUNT POISON IN STOMACH
Detectives Working on Theory
That Mrs. Hadley Left Clarke
Home in Automobile.
HUNT POISON IN STOMACH

was ySomc deadly poison. little
known to medical science. employed
Fin numbering the attractive and ta,ent-
ed Mrs. Wilmer Amos Eiadley, Wife
| Of the missing former Wes,hampton
army surgeon?
Have the post-mortcm effects and
the fact that the woman's body lay for
six weeks submerged or partially sub
! merged in the waters OF the James
eliminated all trace oc this fatal drug
thus destroying lega; proof OF a c-ineo
Was the wife dead before she
reached the secluded spo, where her
cody was found or was she lured there
through affection for loved one?
SEARCH ENTENDS FROM
RICHMOND TO mo GRANDE
These questions puzzled authorities
Friday as they continued a search cxs
tending from Richmond TO the Rio
Grandc for the husband of Mrs. Had
icy, who has dropped from sight since
charge from wcsthampton Hospita,,
just two weeks after the sudden dis
appearance af OF, Of his his wife from the home
Street. where the couple had main
tanned light housekeeping apartments.
r 60. that Dr: Hadiey might escape
Mexico was expressed by authorities
yesterday.
NURSE SAID TO HAVE
HAD LETTER FROM HADLEY
=. dnformntion In orn, was reported to have
Deen received yesterday through a let
ter to n nurse at Westhampton Hos.
pital, indicating that the fugitive was
,oca1ed 10. LED III small town in Harris Coun-
~. rex. near Houston. and less than
700 miles from the Mexican border.
ot.,ct surveillance over the nurse at
Mues,hampton with whom DIR. Hadley is
being maintained by the police. acs
cording to officia! intimation
T., Dispatches from Galveston, Tex Fri
name was Sue Kathleen kinslev and
mat she was married to the surgeon
ON october 16. 1913.
hNs. HADLEf WAS CHURCH
SINGER IN GALVESTON
ner marriage. was well known in ,I;,I.
veston as church singer and -musi.
s0 esahxinE she fois af'ed 1d,ana sIsng IN
tore her death that She was @ anx,aHs oe.
10 get established In some, church as
snrv,na. 'sne liked to sing and enjoyed the
,s sn was stated yesterday that now and
Sie S,ien 4, .he PHYSICIAN, had called at the
mnhiie nia,iKe nome for his wife in an auto
l.iend. Whether the coupie ,nFt ,FS5i,sian sc
au,omobile, on the last afternoon tbn
be % stated IIS by ssen Ken aliye nv here could NOT
NO TRACE OF POISON
YET FOUND HY CORONER
City Coroner James 81. whi,saIa
III Is conducting an examination of
OF OF poison eso woman,s yasias stomach for traces
would be a week or ten days befora
ne would be able to announces his finde
IN lnss. so lie lie said that thus far no trace
signs or certain poisons might be er,dil
Gated by the post-mortem effects and
eemhalming fluids injected into the
Detectives nre worr;,
theory that Mrs. Hadley's SLAYER too
,ne mer from her home IN an automobiIe
been bm DianeI oe,leye q that h poison may have
lunch which preceded her disappear
ance from the Clarke home or Was Tad
10 her in the guisc of medicine or
candy.
TRIED TO ANCHOR BODY
|, UNDER SURFACE OF WATER
There is every reason to believe. they
say that Mrs. Hadley was dead before
neI oody was placed in the James River
/ to the thin strands of wire about her
waist in an effort 10 anchor the body
TO the river bed. Had this effort been
crime might have been undiscovered for
a generation.
Another basis for the belief that Mrs.
Hadiey rode to her death in an auto
She was said to have been very par
ticular about her street dress and very
neat about her home, When the body.
was found it was attired in raincoat
and sweater, over n dress she wore
about the house, thus practically sub
| stantiatinG the belief that she had
thrown the outer wraps over Her house
dress. expecting TO remain inside the
| automobile until her return home
There was report current yester-
day that detectives had trace OF a
prescription for noison which had
been secured by DIR. Hatiley from a
Richmond druge;s. shortly before his
wife disappeared.
Developments Of the case recently
lead the police TO the positive con-
clusion that the river victim did not
commit suicide. They admit, that.
without knowledge OF the woman's
identity. the suicide theory predomin-
ated, but with her name and tempera-
ment known and the circumstances
surrounding her disappearance re-
vealed. the entire complexion of the
case has changed