Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-02-22
MRS. RODENSTEIN'S
Restoration to Reason and to the ReIa.
tives Who Had MOurned Her as
Among the Dead.
Extraordinary Wanderings From To-
rOnto TO New York, Everywhere
Meeting Kindly Treatment.

NEW YORK, February 21.-1he Herald
tells the extraordinary story Of Mrs. Eliza
Rodensteip, widow of the late DR.. Charles
RodensteiD, of this city, who left her home
in Kingston, Ont, on the night Of Decem-
Der 22d last, and walked almost the entire
distance TO the house of her brother-in-law,
DR.. l.. A, Rodenstein, at Carmsnsville.
The sad story of her disappearance from
home while suffering from religious mania,
and of her wanderiDgs as far as suspension
bridge was published lin the Herald of
month ago 1t will be remembered that she
left the house in the midst OF a driving
snow-sterm, for what reason cannot even
now be coDjectured. Her children did not
discover her absence until next morning,
when they Immediately communicated with
DIR. Rodenstein, who was for many years
police surgeon in this city. The Canadian
police were notified, and the most
sctiVe search was made for Der.
Mrs. Rodenstein, the doctors wife, went TO
Kingston, where she stopped for two weeks
assisting the detectives in the search. AT
last, after tracking the missing lady
from farmhouse. to farmhouse, where the
wanderer applied for shelter and food,
finding trace of her at hotel at Toronto,
and gain on December 26th at Scett's Hotel
at Hamilton, but all clew to her where
abouts disappeared at Niagara Fslls. At
all the places at which the missing lady had
stopped she had registered in her own name,
telling all who talked with her that she was
going TO see her brother in New York.
BELIEVED TO HAVE THROWN HERSELF OVER
THE FALLS
The detectives insisted that they had fol-
lowed her TO Niagara Falls, where they said
she had rested at The house of Mr.. Douahue,
the station master at suspension bridge. OF
a. II Il
serious doubts, for though the dress and ap-
pearsnce of the visitor at Donahue's CORE
sponded 10 every way with that worn by the
wsnderer, yet Mrs. Rodenstein could not
believe that her sister-in-law would
have made use OF certain honely express
sions which were said TO have fallen from
the lips of the person who tarried at Dona-
hue's. Every exertion was made to find the
missing lady. On the day of her disappear
ance thousands of printed postal cards Civ
ing her description and full particulars had
been mailed to the police departments OF
CanadaSand the United States, while hun.
dreds OF copies of Der photograph were scat
tered broadcast through Canada and New
York along with posters offering reward OF
$500 for any information concerning her.
Feeling that nothing more could be done,
Mrs. Rodenstein returned home. The detect.
ives continued their search until January
10th, when Cilief-C Constable Stewart, of Ham.
ilton, wrote DIR. Rode.stein that be conid do
no more, and as the trace was lost at Mag
ara Falls he believed the lonely wanderer
had cast herself into the icy rapids.
THE TWO SONS DISAPPEAR.
As time wore on the missing lady's chill
dren and the family at Carmansville were
forced 10 believe that such had really been
the case. As nothing was etill heard OF her,
and it was known that the Herald b d given
wide publicity 10 the story, they told their
friends chat their relative had persisted on
IL 4 Lot toau pf KiDgston had
hardly recovered from the excIteulr al caused
by the disappearance Of Mrs. Rodenstein
when it was again startled by the mysieri-
Gus disappearance of her two sons, Karl
and Arlie, on the evening OF January 22d.
Nothing wss heard Of them In spite of act
i've search. Their uncle, DR.. Rodenstein,
when asked by Herald reporter two weeks
ago, said that he had almost abandoned
hope OF hnding them. -lrfT 1
Another visit of inquiry was made yes
terday afternoon TO DIR. Rodenstein's resi-
dence, al Csrmansville. The reporter foun
the doctor at ho.Ae. On asking after the
missing ones the doctor led the way into his
Office, and then said; "She is here"
"Who1" inquired the reporter.
IN missing sister, Mrs. RodeBsteip," was
the reply. "She came to % on Thursday
EVENING" q Il TEsf4
sid you know that she was coming?"
"No. We thought she was dead. We had
given up all hope, as IL WAS nearly two
months since her disappearance, with no
tidings of her. Our friends in Canada and
the police authorities again and again wrote
to us that she must have been lost in the
rapids. We bad told our friends that we
had come IN halisva h. worsf -
Were you at home when Mrs. Rodenstein
arrivsd?o
"No; my wife was, and for an instant she
was sghast. Then she threw her arms about
the missing one that was found and then
| they wept together. / came home later in
the evening, Il is impossible to tell how
overwhelmed we we're, and how happy TO
see her again, and looking SO well. She had
come to see her two daughters, she said, who
are at the Convent of the Sacred Heart, near
my house, and TO stop with me-"
Has Mr.. Rodenstein told you OF her wan
| deringsW was asked.
"Only in part" replied the doctor; eve
| have not asked her, fearing to remind her Of
her miafortunes; but she has not forgotten
| them, feel satisfied; for, although she was
La ring from mental alteration at the time
| ell 1T home, my sister has now totally re-
covered. She is happy and cheerful as the
day is long,"
"Then it was not she who called at Dona-
hue's house?" g.
WALKING NEARLY FOUR HUNDRED NILES
mo; my wife was right. Her natural
manly instinct saw more clearly than the
detectives or any of us. She has said from
the first that the woman who called at the
station m aster's house was not our sister. II
| appears from what my sister has voluntarily
tod us that che crossed the suspension
bridge, but when we have been unable to
| discover. She made her way to Rochester,
where, from fatigue and worry, she became
very ill. For about three weeks she says th at
she was an inmate OF "Home," which !
fancy che must have mistaken for hospital.
| Ga regaining her health and strength she
again started on her way. She must have
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