San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1926-04-04
GENEVA, March 80.

Nf.NI.N \, Mdfcn oU.
r ATE last Fall Nine. Inaida JurJews-
kaya, youthful prima donna of the
Berlin Grand Opera and soon, it was
said, TO be q healthier of the Metropolitan
Opera House Of New York, disappeared
from Andermatt, high up in the Swiss
Alps. Police dogs picked up her trail on
the snow fields of the great glacier above
the village.
On the edge Of deep crevassc, at the
bottom of which ran a torrent from the
melting ice, the searchcrS found the sing
ers fur coat Spots of blood led from this
to another point on the edge fully thou
sand feet away. Here lay blood-staincd
razor and an empty morphine bottle.
Guides lowered by ropes into the crew
asse reported having seen what might
have been fragments of woman's dress
on lodges where a falling body might have
struck
Overnight the torrent froze. The body
of Jurjewskaya became a part of the
glacier itself, to be released from it only
when its slow motion had borne that body
where the rays of the Summer sun could
melt her shrouds of ice.
And now Jurjcwskaya's husband, Major
Rupert Won Broemcr, who was very great
" in love with his beautiful and gifted
young wife, has gone to Andcrmatt to
begin tragic vigil The rate of progress
of the glacier is known so, too, is the
direction and force of the torrent. Dur
ing the Winter careful calculations were
made to fix the point at which the body
must appear if twas carried away by
the stream from the place where the
bloody blade and drug bottle were found
Here Major Won Brocmcr and a small
regiment of men in his employ will watch
night and day for the glacier to give up
its dead. Through certain fortunate cir
cumstances, the scientists have told him,
he will not have to wait for thirty years,
as did the relatives Of the unfortunate
Lord Francis Douglas, nor the fOIty-twO
years which had to cIapSc before the same
GLACIER released to his faithful daughter
Edith, the body of John C.. Randall. the
Quincy, Mass, banker Both these men
had fallen into similar crcvasscs.
His wifc's body, they told him, would
certainly appear by the middle of July,
and perhaps even sooner.
And Major Won BrOcmer is exceedingly
anxious not to have that body slip away
unseen when the grip of the glacier re-
lakes, but this is not first of all because
il is the body Of the woman he loved 1t
is because he does not believe that bril-
liant wife of his, who had everything
wealth could give and the certainty of
a great career on the operate stage, killed
herself He wants to find out Just how
she did die, and if she was slain, to pun
ish the murdCrcrs.
He does not believe that she could have
cut her wrists or her throat with the keen
blade. after having drained the morphine
bottle, and then have walked that thou
sand feet and hurled herself over the
brink If she had used both knife and
poison why did she not throw herself over
where the fur coat was found? What, in
deed, was the use of throwing herself
over at all? And why did she carry with
her that blade and that bottle and care
fully lay them where they were found be-
fore jumping off? Why not have left
them with the fur coat?
No, Major Won Brocmcr docs not believe
his wife would have done these things
The Berlin police agree with him, Dr.
Weiss, its head, having conc so far as to
say that such a suppOstiOn Is absolutely
untenable."
Indeed, Nine Juriewskaya's disap-
pearance is exactly the kind of problem
that the old Sherlock Holmes of fiction
would have taken hold of with keencst
delight. It has everything about it that
makes a first-class mystery.
Jurjewskaya was a Pole Of noble fam
lily. She was only eighteen when she mar
ried Won Broemer, who was an officer