Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-04-18

Smallpox That Disfgured Her, Dis
She Become Insane and Throw.
Herself Into the Lake? Again, a
Shown by the Picture on Tho Left
She May Have Hidden Under An
other Name, Worked Among tn
Poor and Afflicted, and Failing e
Find the Happiness She Had Hope,
For, Fearing to Confess Failure
Have Destroyed Herself.
in the events OF those few weeks no c,e,a
TO her death?
Jeanne De Kay LETT Europe on the TIA
ian steamship Duca dAosta and landed
New York December 10. She was accom-
panied by her brother John, who, afte
escorting his sister to Chicago. was {
enter the University OF Virginia
The tweniy-year.old heiress and he
brother were subjected TO searching e:
animation by the agents OF the Depar
ment OF Justice who met the steamship
This was done, so the secret service me
said. because they believed De Kay. tn
father. had been an extensive buyer c.
munitions and also the author OF severe,
radical books. But the young people CAV
satisfactory account nf themselves an.
were allowed to 20 on 10 Chicago.
Jeanne settled down with apparent Ell
joyment to her work at Hull House. Earl
In the evening OF December so she wa.
seen to leave the house. and from ths
moment all trace OF her is lost. Scare
OF her room revealed that besides tn
clothes shc wore she took none OF he
personal belongings other than a sma
purse containing 81 and tooth brush.
After the girls disappearance he
brother recalled the fact that on the 70,
age to America Jeanne had become yer
intimate with two Rumanian ladies'
Mrs. Ernest!no Sater and her daughte
Didy. When search for them was inst.
tuted 1t was found that Mrs. Salter ha
already returned to Rumania. Didy, VIII
was finally located in New York afte
considerable difficulty denied any !-now
edge that would throw light on l3anni
De- Kay's whereabouts or the reasons 70
her disappearance.
the saltcrs there came into their hands
cablegram from the father OF the missin;
heiress. which said among other things
Very anxious. Jeanne ccnfided in Ri
manian lady. Stop"
What was the precious iniormctio,
which MT. De Kay believed his daughte
had given away? Whom was he so an1
ious to stop?
Curiously enough. the relatives ant
not at all agreed as TO whether she wa
alive or dead or what had become OF her
Judge Thomas u. Lee. OF Providence
r. T., the attorney who represents job,
". De Kay in this country and undoubt
edly echoed his clients own belief wa:
confdenE that the girl committed suicide
4 cousin OF Jeanne-Charies Dc Kay
the distinguished New York art critic
was equally positive that she wa.
alive and we'll and was keeping out OF
sight of her own volition. "Shes cleve,
little miss" he said, land she will reap
pear when she has made good at whatev
she has set her mind on
The brother, John D Kay. Jr was of the
same opinion. but he thought IL was worry
over her facial blemishes rather than the
desire to demonstrate that pampcred
heiress can make her way in the world
which impelled her to run away. "If she
had been going to kill herself she would
never have bothered to take along hel
toothbrush" the young man arguel.
Mrs. Gertrude Howe Britton, a sccia
worker who was closely associated with
Jeanne at Hull House, was until the dis
covery Of the body unable to make I'D her
mind whether the girl was alivo or dead
Her hope that tho former was tho case
was based largely on the eagcrness she
constantly showed for al opportunity to
work with her hands"
Can 1t be that the answer to tho riddle
of unhappy little Jeanne Do Rays fate
will some day be found in a Mexican ban.
dit camp or In the secret archives OF some
European Government?