Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-10-21
MYSTERY GIRL IS IDENTIFIED
BY HER. MOTHER IN RICHMOND
Young Woman Who Puzzled
Police Here Found to Be
BeuIah Moody.
Reporter for The Star Runs
Down Clue Which DiscIoses
Strange Behavior.

Louise Clay. mystery girl" whose
relatives have been sought by the
| woman's bureau of the local police
department for almost a month, and
Beulah Moody, fifteen years old, who
has been ssnEht in Richmond since
last July, have been Identified BY a
representative of The Evening Star
as one and the same girl. /-.....
:. Sitting in her modest homo at iii
South Taylor street. Richmohd. last
night. Mrs. Anna Louise Moody heard
from reporter the first news she
has had from her ,daughteT since the
girl left home. last JHE. In the
meantime NEAR the: mother hfs made eff,
forts to find her daughter. assisted
by the girls brother. George Moody.
but. as both were in employment and
had no clue to the/ missing girls
whereabouts. they Were able to ac-
complish nothing
Girls condhet Explained.
In explanatioh/of the girls strange
conduct. Mrs. Moody said her daugh-
ter had never seemed entirely nor
enza last October, and twice since
that tim9 she left home without
warning, 1.-THE first time being last
March. when she was gone for two
months.
ovetjoyed at hearing that her
she would take her home again and
do, everything possible to correct her
strange tendencies.
The final disposition of this case
makes the girl more of puzzle than
eyer to those interested in psychopa-
thy. for the story that she repeatedly
told since being found at the Union
station in Washington. September
20, was not substantfated In a single
detail by her mother and brother
The girl has talked with every ap-
pearance of sincerity and earnestness
to go home.
Her Story Refuted.
To all inquirers the girl, frequently
with a tear or two. has said that her
mother died two or three years ago:
that her father was remarked and
living in Akron, Ohio. where she
visited him last spring: that she lived.
with her sister, Mrs Margaret Jones,
at 1913 Franklin street. Richmond and
that she had three brothers and two
sisters. She gave her name as Anna
Louise Clay"
Mrs. Moody, whose given name is
Anna Louise, listened in amazement
as her daughters story was repeated
prompted the girls Imagination. as
she was never interested in romantic
motion pictures or in fiction stories.
Mother Makes Statement.
"Beulah has but one brother. George,
and has no sisters" said Mrs. Moody.
I'VE do not know where Mr.. Moody.
her father. is. and have heard indi-
dead She has never been in Akron.
but knows something Of the town
from having heard one OF the neigh
bors talk who lived there for time.
She IL not sixteen years old. as she
said in Washington, but will be six
teen next February.
"As both George and have to work
we could never give Beuiah the care
we would like to have done. but she
has acted particularly strange since
her Illness with tho Influenza last Oc-
tober. when I thought was going to
lose her. At one time she took some
money had given her to pay a bill
with and bought a lot of clothes for
SOME poor neighbor children,
Last March she left home while I
was at work. and I asked the police to