Newspaper - The Washington Post

District of Columbia
Mrs. Florence Reeves Poole
10 August 1906
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Diligent Search Reveals no trace of Mrs. Florence Poole

Rumor Run down by Police

Report that woman had been in a hotel in Georgetown Proven to be unfounded - Police of this and nearby cities Doing all that is Possible to Ascertain her Whereabout.

The mystery attendant upon the continued absence from her home of 9 Grant Place Northwest of Mrs. Florence A. Poole, in spite of the combined efforts of relatives, friends and police to locate her, has deepened decidedly.

The latter have been able to learn absolutely nothing as to the young wife's whereabouts; her husband is farther at sea than he has been at any time since her disappearance on July 31, and no single clue from any source has yet been discovered.

Maj. Sylvester, with Inspector Boardman and Lieut. Peck, together with every man connected with the Metropolitan police Department, have instituted a search so thorough that the face of every feminine pedestrian in Washington is being scrutinized in hope that she may be the missing woman.

The Authorities of Baltimore, Richmond, and Alexandria, and all near by cities have been notified of Mrs. Poole's disappearance but only one report has thus far been received to momentarily renow the hope of Courtney A. Poole, her husband. This came from Georgetown last evening and was to the effect that Mrs. Poole had been seen at a hotel there. Capt. Schnelder, of the seventh precinct notified headquarters and lost no time in dispatching two of his men to the hostelry to investigate the rumor. It proved to be erroneous, and until a late hour Mrs. Poole had not returned to her home.

Husband Almost Crazed

Meanwhile young Poole is almost crazed. All of yesterday he paced the streets from his home to police headquarters and back again in hope of either meeting his wife on the street, finding her at home, or receiving word from her through the police.

He has received no word from her since the letter she wrote him and which was written, she explained, in a local department store and mailed to him by special delivery.
This said that she was better than when she had written to him from Baltimore to come and get her and that she would be home in the evening.

Mr. Poole is convinced that his wife is somewhere in Washington and the Police share this belief with him. He is in doubt as to whether she is staying away from him voluntarily, is ill somewhere among people who do not know her, or is being kept somewhere against her will.

"But I want her to know my feelings toward her," he said last evening, "and I am doing all in my power to find her and bring her back." He was reticent as to the cause which probably prompted her to leave him in the first place, but explained she had gone to Baltimore to visit an Uncle of whom her mother was already a guest.

"She went over there with her mother and Uncle and wrote me that she was sick and
frightened and to come and get her. She had very little money when she left home.
"I'm going to find her, though, and if any harm has come to her, Heaven help those responsible for it."

Untiring in Search
Since his wife's departure Mr Poole, in order to aid in the search for her, has given up his work. He is employed by his brother, L. A. Poole, commission merchant of 215 Tenth Street northwest. The young couple have been married for three years, kept house for some time but were boarding at the Grant Place address.

They had planned to begin housekeeping again this fall and Mrs. Poole's mother was to live with them. Mrs. Poole was Miss Florence A. Reeves, and lived in Washington. She is an only daughter, but since her marriage has lived elsewhere.

Inspector Boardman said yesterday that the department is doing everything possible to restore the young woman to her husband. The inspector has her photograph and a detailed description of the missing wife has been given to all precincts.

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