Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-09-29
LOOKING FOR TWO GIRLS.
The Daughter of Louisiana General
Runs Away from her Home in New


| Ihe Daughter of a Louisiana General
! Runs Away from her Home in New
| York
A lady of refined appearance, whose
face bore traces of ill-health, says the
New York WorJG of Sept. 81, arrived al
+ O'Clock Wednesday morning in cab at
the Hotel Devonshire, No. 80 East Forty
! second street. She registered as Mrs, B
Smith, Passaic, N. j. From her fragmen.
tary conversations with the servants the
managers of the hotel were led to believe
| that the lady came from the South. She
talked of returning to Savannah by steam.
er, but added that she had i'm.
| portant affairs to settle in New
York, and was going to send for her law
| yer. Friday morning she was confined to
! her room by a chill. She wrote three
| not9s-one to well-knOWn Fifth avenue
! physician, another to a lawyer, and the
| third to ''S., box 1893 Times uptown office.''
| She asked that messenger boy be called,
! but when he came she tore the three
| letters into small pieces. This action, and
| other things in her conduct, led to doubts
| of Mrs. Smiths; sanity.
| Superintendent WalliEg caused the fol-
lowing general alarm to be sent out
| yesterday:
Your attention is called to alarm of Sept 25
relative to Sarah c. Carpenter. Read it to
| your command again, and add to it, $500
reward for the recovery of her body dead or
| alive"
MISS Carpenter disappeared from her
home at No. 72 Hancock street, BROOKLYN,
| and her parents are using all means in
their power to get her back. The offer of
the reward, it appears, stimulated Off icial
zeal, for at O'Clock Capt. Hooker, of the
Nineteenth Sub-Precinct, sent the follow
ing to headquarters:
A lady partly answering the description or
Miss Carpenter came to DevOnshire Hotel
| Wednesday at a. m, has kept her room
since and acts strangely. Can you send for
some one to identify her?
The receipt of a copy of this message
brought some of Miss Carpenters friends
at once to New York. When they reached
the Devonshire they were told that the
lady whom they came to see had been
taken away in a carriage. This adver-
tisement appeared in several papers yes
terday morning:
MISSING-Since Wednesday morning 4
O'Clock, lady answering following descrip-
tiOn: Pale, gray-eyed, auburn hair. tall and
straight, attlred in black ottoman silk suit
good-size black straw hat trimmed with
Dlack feather; carrying medium sized travel
ing satchel, also small one; probably wore
belt, and carrying or wearing brown Jacket
braided with either black or brown and lined
with old gold satin. Any one giving informa-
abouts OF the party mentioned will receive
reward by addressing S., - Uptown Office
The missing Miss Carpenter was de-
scribed as short and stout, with brown
hair, and dressed in a manner different
from that of the lady described in the ad-
vertisement, but she also had black silk
dress and a linen jacket.
Among the passengers on the Savan-
nah steamer which arrived in New York
on Sept. were Brig. Gen. Adolph Meyer,
of the Louisiana National Guard, Mrs.
Meyer, and Mise Ophelia Meyer, the Gen
erals sister. Gen. Meyer lives In New
Orleans and is a cotton broker of great
wealth and high social station.
Miss Meyer is an amiahle and accom-
pllshed woman, who was regarded as an
ornament to the circles in which she
moved. She was compelled by an obsti-
nate attack of malaria to withdraw from
society. and 1t was on her account that
her brother ana sister-in-law came North.
They engaged rooms at the Clarendon
Hotel. Miss Meyers health continued to
fail and her mind was affected. She be-
lieved that her friends were conspiring to
put her in an insane asylum. and this idea.
which no amount of delicate attention
could Danish, haunted her day and night.
When she went out to walk she was
watched. Her younger brother lies very
i'll at Saratoga, and his sisters condition
was carefully kept from him. A physician
was sent for, but Miss Ophelia refused to
see him. She wanted DR.. E. G. Seguin to
treat her, she SAID. He was summoned,
but met with the same reception as his
predecessor-nO reception at all. The un-
fortunate lady imagined that she was a
burden to her friends and told them that
she could earn her own living. On Wed
nesday morning, with few articles of
Jewelry, she went away from the hotel.
Gen. Meyer Immediately began a search.
He caused the publication of the adver-
tisement above quoted, secured the SER
vices OF police and private detectives, and,
above all, was anxious to keep the case
out of tbs papers. Believing that the
lady at the DevOnshire was Miss Meyer,
Detective Irving, of the Nineteenth Sub
Precinct, called at the Clarendon yester-
day afternoon. Gen. Meyer was out, but
Mrs. Meyer and Mrs. S. S. Eiseman,
relative, went to the hotel. Miss OphelIa
refused at first to goaway, but afterwards
yielded. She said that she had had good
time, but was glad to get back.