Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1853-1862, 1859-03-04
Tho Braanan Mystery.

On the Goth of July last the wife of Capt. Brannsn
of the United States Army disappeared from the
city Of New York, and although her husband and
friends have been unremiting in their efforts to
discover her Whereabouts or her fate, they have
been unsuccessful. She was residing with her mo.
Their on Staten Island, in company with whum she
had on the Doth of July visited New York, and at
O'Clock in the afternoon they were to meet at the
ferry and return home II has been ascersiued that
Mrs. Braunan did not reach the ferry until
o'clock; that she crossed to the island and took a
hack 10 proceed 10 her mothers A gentleman vas
noticed TO get into the hack, and here all trace of
the lady disappears. Her friends have recently
published the result Of their Investigations, and
give it as their opinion that she has been murdered
Her previous life, they say, forbids the idea that
she would voluntarily absent herself.
The New York Commercial thus comments upon
the statement concerning the mysterious disappear
auce Of Mrs. Brsnnsn:
If it is well established that lady entered q carr
riage a. Tompknsville, and that that lady was Mrs
Brannsn, the remaining facts sre more than myste-
rious. They are marvellous, indeed. 1t has doubt
less occurred to the shreEd Ex Chief Of Police that
at that Of the year the ferry boats leave the
island at an early hour Of the morning; that carr
riage might come on board and up to the city
without exciting any remsrk, for 1t is daily occurs
rence and if such a vehicle, public or private has
disappeared from the island with the horses who
drew it and the man who drove them, said vehicle
must have gone somewhere on a ferry-boGt The
horses would scarcely do this without q driver TO
guide them; and if they did, the gaie-keeper would
be apt TO ask them for the toll and stop them We
repeat that public vehicle would be known 10 all
who assemble round the landing at Quarantine. A
private one might not, though a strange private
~ aurlA lott vanNw nho
key of the mystery, it seems to u.s. is in the where's
al uis of that carriage. Has any on the island
lost carriage, or sold one about that time and if
the latte, to whom was it sold! Was it certainly
public vehicl-? Do any Of the collectors remember
q carTiGgP, empty or Otherwise, coming up to the
city by early boat either side Of the island the
next morEing? 1t is absurd 10 suppose that the
carriage and horses we're buried; and they could
only get off The island by the ferrybost 1t ought
not to be a difficult thing identify that carriage,
and to make the owners of it explain where it and
the horses and driver are and if this part of the
narrative is true.
The New York correspondent of the Boston
Journal writes to that paper as follows:
The mysterious and painful disappearance of Mrs.
Brarnan creates great and growing excitement
The arrival of her husband has renewed the invests
cation. But as yet no clue to the disposal Of the
lady comes up. But some painful rumOrs are ahoat
that at present cannot even state Two theories
are adopted one is that she has been killed. The
othsr as that she as stW The Island. "The gentle
man in black knows of the disposal of the lady
The reason given for her removal is papsOle one,
and perhaps some clue will come up from point
not expected. | sh, uld not be surprised if some
startling reyea ions were made in connection with
this disappearance.
Mrs. Brannan's friends offer reward of s., 900
for any information that will lead tc her discovery
or reveal her fate.