Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1858-08-23
a Mysterious Disappearance.

Many Of our readers will probably remem
her Col. Crane Of the U. States Army, who
two or three years since, was in command
of the garrison at Old Point Comfort 10 Vir
| GINA, where bis health, undermined BY pre-
| TiUuS severe service in Mexico and elsewhere
gave way and compelled him to seek retire
men. and rest. lie came to the North, and
vent to reside with son at Staten Island
where be on after, about two years since,
died. Vita this son he left widow and
daughter, the latter the wife Of Captain
Brennan Of the Unitcd States Army, now
| stationed at Key West. Mrs. Brennan has
one young child, who resided with her at her
| Brothers at Staten Island.
Ga the 20tb of July Mrs. Crane, with her
son and daughter, Mrs. Brennan, came to
town, and when they parted to 20 upon their
several errands or visits, it was understood
that they would meet again on the boat ct
o'clock. The mother aud son were punctu-
al to their appointment, but the daughter
was not The two former returned to the L.
land, not doubling, OF course, that the third,
Mrs. brennan, was accidentally left behind,
or necessarily delayed by some engagement,
and that she would take the next boat ut 81
O'clock; but the boat arrived at the leland
without her; nor did che appear to her now
watchul friends when the last boat by which
she could reach home on that day arrived,
at o'clock. 80 unaccOuntsble an absence
materially created some anxiety, sod that
anxiety grew into alarm, and then into de-
spair, when they learned, the next day, that
she actually lett the house Of friend the az
ternoOn before to 60 to the 4 O'Clock boat, bnt
that she was afterwards seen in adway,
apparently on her way to the boat Of 5! o.
clock, since which time the most dllgent
search by her friends and the police has con-
pleteiy failed to discover even the slightest
trace Of her.
1t II useless to suggest any Of the many eau
ses which may have induced Der " disappear,
or compelled her disappearance, 80 utterly
and without Leaving a sign behind her; on
this point tue IMAGINATION may be left unaid-
ed. But this only should be said--.hat there
Is nothing, We are assured, in the relations of
Mrs. Brennan to her family or her friends,
nothing in her worldly circumstances, moth
irg 10 her character, nothing in her state Of
mind or health, that admits for moment
tie possibility OF q secret departure or pro.
longed absence to be voluntary acts On her
part. She was happy in a retired and plea
sant home. where an aged mother aud Young
child required her constant and stfectIonate
care, and the unvarying cbeerlulne.s and
untirirg devotion which she gave to these
daily duties forbid the suppostion that she
could have consciously aud deliberately aban-
done them. We are left then, to the widest
conjecture as to what can have happened to
lady unassumng, modest in the sad and sober
garb Of mourning weeds, but not unattrsctive,
aud 10 the prime Of womaphood, on so public
thoroughtare as Broadway in the broad day
light OF a Summer afternoon. We doubt If
the police If London or Paris would have let
such question be unsolved for thirty days.
". T. tribune.