Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-01-27
BRINGS LETTERSO OF ]. !.
DOCTOR WHICH TELL.
/ OF HIS W|FE'SDEATH.
Missing Surgeon Claimed
Kin to Missouri Governor
and President of Yale. I
FEAR FUGITIVE DOCTOR
HAS FLED INTO MEXICO
Husband of Dead Woman Said.
to Be an Expert in 4.
Anaesthetics. s
AUTHORITIES ARE AT sen
Relatives Unable to Get Information
From Porto Rican Officials
About Alleged Burial.
RITES ARE AT sen
Relatives Unable to Get Information
From Porto Rican Officials
About Alleged Burial.

DR.. Wilmer Amos Hadley, sought as
the slayer of his attractive and gifted
wife. is relative of Professor Arthur
Twining Hadley, educator. lecturer. au-
thor and president OF Yalo Univer-
sity. and of former Governor Herbert
Spencer Hadley, of Missouri, for years
an outstanding figure in Middle West
legislation, according to Mr.. and Mrs
A. II. Evans, Of Cincinnati. who will
arrive in Richmond this afternoon to
claim the dead body OF Mrs. Evanss
sister. ~
An Associated Press dispatch from
Houston. Tex, received at an early
hour this morning. says that DIR. Had
ley had recently returned; to his homo
mt Dickinson, Galveston County. but Is !
now missing, having disappeared fol-
lowing publication in n Houston newss
paper OF dispatch saying u warrant
for hts 'crrcst had been Issued ut Rich
mond. When Hadley returned to Dick-
inson,. 1t is asserted. he informed
friends his wife had died last October.
Mr.. and Mrs. Evans. after receiving
Tho Times Dispatch message inform-!@
ing them OF Mrs. Hadley's s death, got
Rs @e,hs @ " WI &
5nopneedl that ;hey would reach this city
them the letters written. by Dr. Hadley,
stating thnt his wife had died in San
Juan. Porto Rico, on November I3s.
and was buried November "a In the
American Cemetery there.
FEAR DR. HADLEY HAS
FLED ACROSS BoRDER
In face Of the rapid developments
In the case during the past few hours
how soon they expected to take the
fugitive physician into custody. Fur
ther fear was expressed that the for,
across the border from Texas into
Mexico. and that complications might
arise in securing his extradition should
!" " 1t was, definitely determined here
last night that Mrs. Hadlcy had not
left the city from the time she came
Disappeared, 50 suddenly, from the
Clarke home shortly before ,Thanka-
giving.
DIR. HADLEY REPORTED TO BE
AN EXPERT IN ANAESTHEr'ICS
Dispatches from Cincinnati last night
stated that DR.. Hadley had been re-
puted as an expert in administering
anaesthetics. and that the greater share
OF his work in army service had been
that Of giving ether and chloroform TO
patients.
Mrs. Evans, sister Of the dead wo-
previous to the messages from here.
that her sister was believed to have
been murdered as the result of the.
worry over the fact that She could re-
ceive no answer to her letters to DR..
Hadiey concerning an application to
have the body supposed to be buried
try.
DEAD WOMAN's SISTER
COMING TO CLAIM BODT
After consultation with friends IN
Cincinnati. Mrs. Evans decided to come
TO Richmond and return the body to
the Ohio city, where arrangem ants are
being made to bury 1t in Spring Grove
Cemetery.
Tinsley. daughter OF William Tinsley,
widely known Gtnannati arenitect;
She was. born at Mount Aubusn, En- ana ana
came n proficient pianist and vocal
teacher under Professor Oscar Ergrett
and while making a tour or texas ao,,ns sne
physician with the International and
Great Northern Railway.
WAS MARRIED TO DIR. HADLEY
SIX YEARS AGO IN TENAS
Later she established studio az
Houston, and about six years ago sne
was married to DR.. Hadley, who is now'
supposed to be thirty-stS years OF age:
Because of the fact that Dr. Hadiey
relatives yesterday said that they had
not been enthusiastic over the mar
riage end declared they were never
able to become intimate or cultivate
the acquaintance and friendship of the
ri ii was claimed by IIadley a. the time
Of former Governor Hatiley, of Missouri
and Professor Hadley, president OF
Yale University.
LAST LETTER FROM SISTER
WAS WRITTEN IN RICHMOND
The last letter received by Mrs.
Evans from her sister was dated from
Richmo onu on November When writ
ing this letter Mrs. EIadley was eyi-4
IDENTIFY in the best OF sp'rlts. She spoke
with pride OF her husbands work at
the Westhampton military hospital,
and said that he was soon to be. rs-f
leased from military service. Plans
for spending the holidays in New YORK
were detailed. and she stated that after
the holidays she would visit Cincnnal
with her husband en- route TO their
Texas home. u
ON the day this letter was received
Mrs. Evans learned of the death OF
an aunt. and wrote several days lator.
giving her PARTICULARS as to the dis
position Of the estate. No reply was
ever received by her to this letter.
When she received letter datsd
December 5--theg date DIR. Hadley ts
supposed to have left Richmond---anda
mailod from Atlanta, Ga, OH December
z, telling OF her. sisters death in Porto
Rico Mrs. Evans's ausnicionN wtr6 :
aroused. She said she didn't believe
out telling her OF the trip. She irpnis.
diateiy began an investi asion.
In HIS letter to Mrs. Evans. DR.. Had.t,