Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1919 — MISSING AVIATRIX, THOUGHT EXECUTED, HAS RETURNED. [ARTICLE]

MISSING AVIATRIX, THOUGHT EXECUTED, HAS RETURNED.

For some time past newspaper speculation has been rife as to the fate of Ruth Law, missing aviatrix, and the general trend of opinion was that she had been executed as a German spy during the war. The mysterious disappearance of her name from the daily newspaperheadlines aroused much gossip, and the eager tongues of many during: the war days soon, connected her name with that of a spy. And now it seems that Ruth Law has been found, pursuing the even tenor of her way in Japan, where she had been making flights for the peoples of the Orient, as may be gleaned from the following: San Ftancisdo. —Ruth Law, well known aviatrix, arrived here from the Orient as a passenger on the steamer Ecuador. Following successes in this country Miss Law went to the Far East to astonish the natives with her prowess, but, due either to war restrictions or other troubles, her flights are said not to have been continued. According to stories brought back by other ships, the Japanese seized her machine because she failed to fulfill one of her contracts when furnished a poor quality of gasoline.;