The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1878-06-27
MRS. WERTHEIMER' DIsLPPEiRlycE
Twenty square Miles Searched by Omcers
and boys for Two Day. and Nights.

Mrs. Henrietta Wer heimer, wife Of Mr.
Morris Wertheimer OF Mertheimer a Company,
5Gl broadway wandered from her rooms in
the West End Hotel Fort Washington. on Tues
day morning last, and has not been found. For
two days nnd nights her husband and relatives.
residents in tho neighborhood. Capt Steers and
sixty police officers and fifty boys from the Deaf
and Dumb Asylum have secured the land be-
tween the Hudson and Harlem rivers for twen-
ty square miles. Mrs. Werthcimcr's health WIS
impaired. and she went to the.hotel two weeks
ago hoping for relief Her husband went from
ms city business ut nightiall - tho hotel and
rrturned in the morning. ON Tuesday Mrs
Mertheimer seemed more cheerful and so her
husband tod her that when he returned at
night they would ride homo 10 the city IN their
on Mr. Wertheimer's return hi- wife hal lia
appeared. Her maid sail that Mrs. Werthcimcr
sat ior a long time motion.ess. lookin. intontly
at NE river ngwing below tho windows. When
view she replied. oh. II is 50 beautiful down
there Soon aiterward the mad learned that
Mrs Wcriheimcr had changed her dress nut On
a h'ack INK dress arI hia'k chip bonnet irim-
med with gold braid and lie '1ed with Solfcriuo
eGlored roses taken her diamond earrings with
binek enamelei border; q small gold watch
partly open-iuced; black silk pnrasol. with
mo'her.of- pearl handle aud gold ton anil gon
away. On nor right hand She Wore a diamond
ring and one Of plain gOi1. She y - years OF
hsr. Ahl sYegas lolh, Lngli7h and German. Her
frame. with n pale face, and has a small rod
mark near the lcit eye Nj. Wcrheimer insists
that She was not insane and argues thnt she
did not intend 10 clmmit suicide because she
took 50 many VluaDles before leaving the hotel.
Caut. Steers, who has given his whole time
and energies. night and day. 10 tho pursuit be-
lleves thut Mrs. NeitAelmnr hns committed
suicide Eyory bush and every rocky hollow
In tho neighborhood has ho says. boon visited
aud the unfortunate lady could not have walked
IN her weakness beyond the limits Of his search.
She was in tho hotel at 10 \. NJ. and wns soon
next about an hour aiterward by Tom. the shed
man at Felix Schedlers hotel, walking up and
down the high bank, and looking down into the
Harlem river. soon after i. NJ. on tho same
day she asked Mr.. Donald. liluor dealer a few
steps west Of the kingsbrldge road. where the
Eighth avenue horse ears ran. and how she
could get 10 them. Then she went away, ap-
parenty with the intention Of going down the
kingsbridge road; but nearly an hour attcr-
ward she was seen by William Murray and
by several school children turning into
Hayens lane runn1ing from the ,KnSsbri,lge
road T. Fort Washington pHnt.. Tho
lanc ends at the Hudson river. Nothing has
been learned OF her whereabouts since. She
was seen slowly walking into the lane with her
head bent downward and her whole demcanor
one of HbIect Dependency Mcrthemcr offers
500 reward for information OF her Whereabouts
or the recovery Of her body. Capt. Steers is to
have on search to-day nifty boys from tho Deaf
and Dumb Asylum. MY boys Of the Union
Home school. and large number from the Ju-
vcnile Asylum, the heads OF those Institutions
CnecrtullY cOuSuuting,