The Washington union. [volume] (City of Washington [D.C.]) 1857-1859, 1858-08-22

A MYSTERIOUS DLSAPPEARANCE.
IFiom the New York Tribune !

One of those painful and mysterious incidents which
occasionally in large Cities and by comparison
make fiction tame, occurred here about month since,
and yet the strctest scruniy and the anxious
search excited by the hope of reward the hand
and impelled the other by the warmest family aec-
ton have been unable to lay hold upon the slightest
clue to its solution The has been referred to in
two Of our morning contemporaries, but with want OF
careful detail and absence of names which fail to at
tract to it that attention which might possibly lead to
discovery, hope for which alone render to
those concerneda publication of the facts at all desirable
We will supply this omission in the hope that through
such tho of public safety may be served,
and some aid be rendered to bereaycd family who
mourn now for one lost as without hope.
Many Of our readers will probably remember Colonel
Crane, of the United States army who, two three
years since, in command of the garrison at Old Point
Comfort in Virginia. where his health, undermined by
previous severe service in Mexico and elsewhere gave
way and compelled him to seek retirement and rest He
came to the North, and went to reside with son at
Staten Island where he after about two years since
died With this he left widow and daughter the
latter the wife of Captain Brennan of the United States
army stationed at Key West. Mrs Brennan has
young child who resided with her ut her brothers at
Staten Island
On the goth of July Mrs Crane, with her and
daughter Mrs. Brennan came to town, and when they
parted to 60 upon their several errands visits it
understood that they would meet again the boat at
o'clock. The mother and SON were puncual to their
appointment but the daughter not. The two former
returned to the Island not doubling of course that the
third Mrs Brennan accidentally left behind, or ne
cessariIy delayed BY engagement, and that she
would tako the next boat at 81 o'clock but the boat
rived at the Island without her did she appear to
she could reach home that day arrived at clock
SO unaccounabe absence naturally created some anx
iety and that anxiety grew into alarm and then into
despair, when they learned the next day, that she
ual left the house of friend the afternoon before to
go to the o'clock boat, but that she was afterwards
in Broadway apparently her way to the boat of
81 o'clock since which time the most digent search by
her friends and the police has completely failed to dis
cover even the slightest trace of her.
1t is useless to suggest any Of the many which
may have induced her to disappear compelled her dis
appearance, utterly and without leaving sign behind
her this point the Imagination may be left unaided
But this only should be said that there is nothing We
assured in the relations of Mrs Brennan to her fam
lily her friends, nothing in her worldly circumstances
nothing in her character nothing in her state of mind
health, that admits for moment the possibility of
secret departure prolonged absence to be voluntary
on her part She happy in retired and pleasant
home where an aged mother and young child required
her constant and acctionate care and the unvarying
cheerfulness and untiring devotion which she gave
these daily duties forbid the suppostion that she could
have consciously and deliberately abandoned them We
left then, To tho widest conjecture to what
have happened to lady unassumng, modest in the sad
and sober garb Of mourning weeds but not unattctve
and in the prime of womanhood publca thorough
fare Broadway in the broad daylight of sum
afternoon. We doubt if the police of London or
Paris would have let such question be unsolyed for
thirty days