Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1858-08-28
The Mysterious Disappearance Of = Lady-Es
Gina 70 her Pate

InE mysterious ulsappeArh1ce q q LaQy-nh
Clus 20 her Fate
We have made brief nention Of the fact that
Mrs. Brennan. the wife Of Captain Brennan,
. OF the United States Army, Stationed at Key
West. Florida, who was on a visit TO Staten
Island. mYsterisusly disappeared from her
4 Friends, a few days since, wEie out shopping
on Broadway, IN New York he TrbuHs
thus Dsrticulariz.s the mystsriouss5 soIr0w-
fol circumstance:
One Of those painful and mysterious Incl
dents which occasionally occur in large cities,
aud BIZ comparison make fiction tame, occurred
here about a month since, and as vet the
~strictest scrutiny and the most ample search,
excited bF the hope Of reward on one hand,
and im1ellsd en- the other BY the wsrmest sf-
lection, have been unable to lay hold upon the
slightest clue to its solution. The case has
been referred to in one OF two Of our morning
cotemnorariss, but with a want Of careful de-
tail. and an absence Of names, which fsiledto
attract 20 Il that attention which might pos
siblF leadto s0@e discovery hope for which
slcas can render to those concerned a pubiica-
ton Of facts at ali desirabls. We will supply
this omission, in the hope that through such
mea1s the cause Of publie safety may be
served, and some sidbe Tendereeto Ebereaved
family, who mourn nov for one lot as without
hope.
Many OF our readers viii probably fsnen-
Der Col. Crane, Of the United States Array.
MEO-NMO or NLEEE years tLGEE-A ll E0lllInlL
Of the garrison at Old Point Comfort in Viz
ginia. where bis health, undermined By prsvi
Gus service 10 Mexico and elsewhere. gave way
and compelled him to seek retirement and rest
He cane 10 the North. and went to reside with
a son at Staten Islsnd, where be soon after,
about two years since, died. With this son he
left a widow and a dsughter-the latter, the
wife Ct Capt. Brennan, Of the United States
Army nov stationed at Key West. MrB.
Brennan has one child, who resided with her
1t her brothers. az Staten Island.
On the ooh Of July, Mrs Crane, with her
son and daughter, Mrs. Brennan came, 20 town,
aud when they parted to 20 upon their teVsTsl
errands or visits, II was understood they should
meet again On the boat at four O'Clock. Toe
mother and son were puuctual 20 mat appoint
ueHt. bHt the daughter was not. The two for
msr returned 10 the island, not doubling, Of
course. that the third, Mrs. Brennan. was &C
ciden'aliV left behind, OF necessarily delayed
bv some engagement, and that she wogld take
The next boat at hslf-pzst FIVE o'clock /; but the
boat arrived at the isls0d without her; nor did
she appear 10 her now wstchful friends when
the last boat BY which she could reach home
on that day arrived at eight o'clock.
So uaaccountsble an absence naturally ere
ated some anxiety, and that anxiety grew into
alarm and then into despair, when they learn
cd. the next day, that she actually left the
house Of z friend the afternoon before to 90
10 the 4 O'Clock boat, but that she was afer-
ward seer in Broadway, apparently On Der way
10 the 81 O'Clock boat, since which time the
most diIgent search By her friends and by the
police has completely failed to discover even
he Slightest trace Of her. Il il useless 10 sug-
gsst snF Of the many causes which may have
induced Der 20 disappear, or compelled her TO
disappear, 50 utterly without leaving a sign
behind Der; on this point the Imagination may
Be left uuaiced. But this only should be said,
that there j. nothing, We are assured, IN the re-
1afious OF Mrs. Brennan TO her friends, nothing
in her worldly circumstances, nothing in her
character, nothing in her state Ct mind OF state
Of health, that admits for a moment the possi-
bility Of a secret departure or prolonged alb
sence to be voluntary acts on her part
she was happy in a retired and pleasant home,
where an aged mother and young child requir-
ed her constant and afectionate care, and NJ
VARYING cheerfulness and untiTing devotion
which she gave to these daily duties forbid the
sup7osition that she could have consciously
and deliberately abandoned them. We are
left, then, 70 the widest conjecture as to what
can have happened to a lady, u~nsssumiDg,
modest. in the sad and sober garb Of mourning
weeds. but not unsttractivs, and in the prime
Of womanhood, on so public q thOrougbfsre as
Broadway, 10 the broad daylight Of a summer
afternoon. We doubt IL the police Of London
OF Paris would have let such a question be IN
solved for thirty DAYS