Show THE MICHIGAN MYSTERY Some More Itoniuiitlc Development in the Case VASSAR Mich June 21fhe disappearance disappear-ance of Mrs Brooks is again to the fore with a more romantio story than at first Several weeks ago L C Marritt of this place wrote to Anna D Butterfield at Riverside Riv-erside Colo asking information concerning Mrs Brooks The following reply was received re-ceived on Monday Your letter of tho 6th is received and contents noted You say von were at the Brookses and read my letters to them and you wanted to know if I had employed a detective to hunt up Aunt Johanna I have and he has found her and rescued her from a prison cell where she had been for three months Also you wanted to know if she had drawn all her money No she has not drawn any of what was coming to her but had a present of a draft of GO000 Then her lawyer gave her 20000 in cash She had that when I saw her in St Louis about tho 19th of February She is heir to about 300000 with use for one year A detective de-tective has had the luck to find that much It cant be got ithout a private mark which was agreed on when they last met the lady that has the care of it It was to make her sign that mark that they tortured so far but she ontd not sign it and I think she is very gritty Tho detective writes me that they kept her six days without anything to eat and applied all manner of tortures that are cruel I shall see that she is taken to her family and shall try to get her thereby there-by the 4th of July if her mind is so that we can move her for now she is crazy They killed her boy before her eyes that turned her brain brainANNA ANNA D BDTTEHEIELD The letter was evidently written by the same hand that penned the letter signed by Mrs Brooks and detailing the story of her imprisonment DENVER June 24 Detectives acquainted with the case are satisfied that Mrs Brooks whom the recent telegrams from Vassar Michigan claimed was held captive in California Cali-fornia by bandits in order to secure possession posses-sion of her fortune and Mrs Anna Butter field of Riverside California are one and the same person and that she has not nor never had the amount of money left her that she claims They regard the stories in circulation about her a canard SAN FBANCISGO June 2Mrs Anna J Butterfield who is now believed here to be Mrs Brooks the supposed heiress from Michigan left yesterday stating that she was going East The mystery surrounding this case is not yet removed Mrs Butter field hasgiven so many versions of her con n fi1itrvRtltthe case flint it is impossible toBtat03Thichi9jhB trueone The police here who have questioned l > sely hojd that she is Mrs Brooks that the storvvPT her receiving a large fortune is a myth and that she has so far lost her reason rs to bo scarcely responsible for her acts I |