New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-01

A WOMAN'S FLIGHT IN HER NIGHr-DRESS
MRS MoNTGoMERY's TREATMENT AT THE NEW
YORK HosPIrAI-IHE MYSTERY SURROUNDING

YORK uosPITAIl-THE MYSTERY SURROUNDING
HER.
A woman about thirty years old, slender and
graceful ia FORM with regular features. sallow com
plcXion and long, jet black hair. ran INTO
Fifh-1vc. at Sixteen hist. At 11p a. H.
on Welnc day, wearing ONLY . msht-dreSs
Her feet were bare and she ran rapidly mp me street
a distance of one block. She was very pale, her
eyes had n frightened look and her hur streamed
loose in the wind She crossed the avenue at
Seventcenth-St. and wcnt INTO the area OF the
house at the mort beast corner. The attention OF
policeman was called to the woman Inexperienced
her and asked for an explanation of her strange
conduct. IT was evident that She was laboring
under great mental excitement ahe chdeaVorci
to conceal her features by drawing her liair over
her face but she SAID ut length that she had escaped
from the New-York Hospital, and she begged the
policeman not 10 take her back 10 that Institution.
A servant who WAS sweeping the front steps OF
ncighbOung house was prevailed upon 10 hnd the
woman an old dress, and the policeman
then led ner to the station IN West Ihlrtleth-st;
There the woman gave her name as MIS- Iota VI
MONTGOMERY, the wife OF General Nj ton Montgom-
cry OF Dcs MOncs, Iowa. An ambulance was sum
moncd and she was taken back to the newborn
it WAS learned at the hosrital that Mrs. Mont
Comerv had been received there as a patient on
Tuesday and that she had escaped from the mstliu-
ton by running ont through tue rear yard INTO ok
fcentli-st a few minutes before she discovered
in ITfrb-ova The nurse who had been assigned to
watch her had been called to another part OF the
ward for short time and Mrs. Montgomery had
jumped out of bed and had fed from the building
before her actions were noticed. IL Was
recorded in the hospital ,o,, Gi9'teF t4 fhd
institution 10y Mr. Lancaster of the Hotel Bristol
in East Elevcnth-St, where she was said to have
boarded. Ii was recorded also that Mr.. Lancaster
had undertaken to inform her family of her CON
ditlon. The woman was hys,ercal and was suiier-
ing from st. Nituss dance She was placed
in Ward J. at first, but her actions there
disturbed the other patients, and she was
transferred to a ward in the basement whence
she escaped. The attending physician Thought
that she was insane ana n Wednes lay evening she
was removed to Bellevue Hospital and placed III the
pavilion or insane women.
1t was learned that Mrs. Montgomery was taken
to the New-Y0rl Hospital by James ii. Lancaster,
consulting engineer at No. 81 LiDerty-st. lie was
indignant when he was informed OF the treat
Mrs. Montgomery had been employed Tor
about two weeks in his Office as
copyst. She had applied for a situation ana la4
told him brief portion of her history; but ne had
never known where she lived i'll the city. 80 far as
he knew, she had suffered much on account OF tam
Iy troubles but there was mystery aO2ut her Iiie
which he had not attempted to solve. She
had been IN the city about two months;
Her intention was TO study eiocutlon ana
lit herself for the stage. On tuesday she
entered the Office in great agitation, leaning upon
tie arm OF district telegraph messenger. 10 whom
she had appealed for assistance IN the Posi- Once.
She had received letter IRON the Vest informing
her of the death of an old friend physician. she
limited that she had been engaged to marry Inc
physician AT one tlmc and it evident that he
news of his death had completely upset her.
Mr.. Lancaster saw that she was IN great
need of medical assistance and believing her To he
without means friends III the Guy. he TOOK hcr 10
the New-York Hospital and informed the acting
superintendent about her. She was composed
enough at the hospital TO give all neediul lniorma-
ton aDout herself, but the clerks neglected to take
down the statements which sine made Ihey were
content to receive his caIG and write IN the botter
what was OF 10 value. Mr.. Lancaster boarded at
The Hotel Bristol early in the summer, but he has
been staying at Long Branch nearly every night
recently, and has had no regular city address eN-
ccpl his Office The clerks at the hospital neglected
TO ascertain where Mrs. Montgomery had boarded
Mr.. Lancaster said, until she became 80 nervous
that sac could not remember.
Mis-. Montgomery remained in the pavilion for
the insane at Bellevue Hospital yesterday. She
was quiet most OF the time. but she was unable TO
remember where she had been staying IN The city
be .orc she was taken to the hospital lcr husband
she said was James Milton Montgomery. lie was
a rnachinst in Des MONIES at one time, but he bad
become a travelling agent 1t could
not be asccTtaincd with certainty whether lie was
dead or had been separated from her.
She had told Mr.. Lancaster that she was born III
HcrtfordshIre England, and that her father was "A
cicrg, man who at one time preached III Chicago.
Her conversation showed that she had been well
educated. When she received at bellevue
Hospital, there were bruises upon her meek ana
ankles Tor winch the surgeons at the New-1Ork
Hospital could not account. Experts III INSANITY
Will examine Mrs. Montgomery to-day,