Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-05-18 | Page 11 | Daughter Seeks to Learn Fate of Ambrose Bierce

Daughter Seeks To Learn earn Fate a e o of f Ambrose Bierce fierce LOS ANGELES May 18 is ArAn AFAn Ar AF- An Inv Investigation is Js' Js under way Nay t to tod d determine t th the fate which befell beren Ambrose Bierce noted California author and journalist who disappeared dis- dis appe appeared rM in Mexico In 1913 when th the southern republic was in th the revolutionary grip gdp of ot Francisco Villa the bandit leader lendel Mrs 1 Helen Isgrigg of ot Hollywood C Cal l. l th the daughter of fierce BIerce announced announced an an- n. n last that night night night- that an invest investigation gatlon gation was b being directed by Colonel Cob Colo nel net C. C J. J of cit the Mexican army now in Mexico City Recent Recen letters from him indicated d. d she sUe said saida a measure of f success in clearing up ui the mystery Bl rc who was noted for hi his caustic wit and md tales of horror am and realism was last heard from by his daughter in November 1913 A At that time although 72 years of age ago ho he intimated he was adventuring with the Mexican l forc forces s The late George Sterling California Call Cali fornia poet and of Bierce has given two versions of the dl dl- dl appearance George F F. Weeks a told newspaper co correspondent Sterling that he had learned that tha Bierce had pad been treacherously shot by a m member mbel of Villas Villa's staff An An- Another other othel version had it Jt that after aHel Villas Villa's capture of Chihuahua Bierce proposed to a p peon n after a period of inaction that they y desert to the Carranza forces and Villa learning their pl plans ns had them shot down Inthe in inthe inthe the night Bierce was One t of the the- nations nation's first newspaper columnists working working work work- ing ng In San Francisco New York and Washington III