Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1920-07-20
MOTHER SURE [
BODY FOUND
Ri, IS DAUGHTERS
;'arent Identifies Picture OF
Nh Woman Missing Since
November, 1916

Ne York. July 1s.-The mystery
-! has cloaked the identity OF the
girl whose body was found
so, 1919, buried under a pile
Swamp. nea an abandoned
- mill, outside New Canaan, Conn.,.
my be solved within a few days.
Xs5SSsln the belief that the victim of the
5ssSMoet banling mystery in the history
40 Connecticut was Mrs. Anna zirkel-
bach Wardaway, Who disappeared
Iron her home in this city Nov. g.,
exhume the body in h hope of nav
4 a h identification made positive.
AISMrs. Veronica Muller of TIA E.
SNtneteenth street. mother of the long
missing woman. assured a reporter
%Sf4or the New York American yester-
that she feels positive he swamp
victim, who died from the effects of
Unnecessary operation, was her
laughter.
s#ss Sure the Face is Annals.
She has identified a picture of the
Sface taken shortly after it was found,
Ssas that of Anna. She has also~recog-
SSnjzed two mother-of-pearl buckles,
to the belt Of the lead
jacket, as one her daughter had
WORN. They are of such a peculiar
design that she insists h cannot be
q mistaken.
3ass The description Of the swamp vie
TALES in minute detail with
ESthat Mrs. Wardaway, for whom a
futile search has been made through
out the country since her disappear
Yance was reported to the New York
4 police in February, 1917, three
months after she had dropped out Of
Z sight.
At the time the newspapers were
N printing long accounts of the battling
swamp mystery in Connecticut, Mrs.
Muller was dangerously ill. at the
h point Of death. and heard nothing OF
1t. As the victim was reported to De
q woman about "a and Anna was II
when she disappeared h mothers
friends failed to see n connection
between the two.
Trouble Made Hcr Older.
But Mrs. Muller explained yester-
day that her daughter, the mother of
"a boy. William. now 4 years old, who
lives with his grandmother, had un-
dergone such trouble in her married
life that she looked several years old
er han she was. Mrs. Muller said:
AFTER searching all over the coun-
try, visiting hospitals, asylums and
morgues, without getting trace OF
her, I only learned recently of the
8WAnp mySLSEy. J. lHlniculdISly SOAAi
municated with the Connecticut au-
thorities, the Missing Persons Bureau
here and Assistant District Attorney
Unger. who has possession of the
clothes worn by the girl found near
New Canaan.
1.-THE picture the Connecticut po:
lice sent me of the body I identified
as that Of Anna. The clothes !
couldn't recognize. but 1 am positive
the mother-of-pearl buckles are the
very ones that Anna attached to the
belt of her jacket shortly before she
disappeared. She probably changed
them to another dress after firing OF
or wearing out the other one.
Was Unhappily Married.
Anna was very %unhappily married
to Albert A. Wardaway. who was in
the produce business under tn
Queenboro bridge with his father
with whom he now lives, at 800 F.
seventy-second street. She was onl,
Is and he FL when they were mar
ried at the city hall by Alderman
John J. Reardon. February rs, 1918
I protested against the match, but to
no avail.
'From. the start they quarreled in
cessantly. The following January
william was born, but her home life