News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1888-04-26
MISS BOGERT'S COLD JOURNEY.
A Midnight Walk in Her Night Dress
and a Rnbber Gossamer.
from the n, Y. Sun.l

Between II o'clock on Thursday night
| and yesterday morning Miss Nellie
May Bogert, % years old, who has been
suffering with hemorrhage of the lungs
for three months, and who is not expect
ed to live long, left her home at 316
West Nineteenth street, clad in night
/ dress and rubber gossamer, with thin
| soled shoes ON her feet and small silk
| toboggan cap On her head, and walked or
rode to a ferry running to Jersey City,
! crossed the river and in some way reach
ed the home of Mr.. Alonzo Mandigo, 70
Bright street, Jersey City. There she
raped on the door with sufficient
strength to awaken Mr. Mandigo, who
got out of bed and opened the door.
She staggered and fell into his arms and
Immediately tainted. Since that time
she has been conscious only for about
fifteen minutes.
At IL o'clock Thursday night, her
mother, Mrs. Henry w. Leonard of 316
West Nineteenth street, says, she retired
in company with younger sister who
slept with her. Early yesterday morn.
ing Mrs. Leonard arose and looked into
the room occupied by her. To her sur
prise Nellie was gone, and the younger
sister occupied the bed alone. Mrs.
Leonard awoke the girl and asked her
what had become of her sister. She did
not know. She had not been awakened
during the night, but she remembered
that shortly after she went to sleep she
dreamed that some one was hugging and
kissing her. Mrs. Leonard searched the
house unsuccessfully for the missing
girl, and then she notified the police and
a general alarm was sent ont
Mr.. Mandigo says it was three o'clock /!
when he heard knock at the front door |
of his house. He went to the window !
and asked who was there There was |
no reply, and he put his head out of the |
window and was able to distinguish the
outline of n wOmans form. AS soon as
q light was struck, after the girl fell in
to his arms, she was recognized by both |
Mr.. Mandigo and his wife. She was
carried to lounge, where the scantiness
of her attire was noticed, and then she |
was wrapped in warm blankets. Mr..
Mandigo then notified the police, and
they in turn notified the officials of the !
city. Mrs. Leonard also was notified, |
and she went to Jersey City, where she |
midday then. At l o'clock she started
III u OOdCI WIFI GlllS Clbfy dIu
reached her home at o'clock.
During the short time she was con-
scious yesterday Miss Bogert said she
was positive she had not left home and |
that certainly she had not crossed any
ferry. She said also that she had not
worn the gossamer and cap for months.
She is delirious part of the time and
calls upon bright eyes, and speaks of |
how an f'eagle carried her." The Man.
digo and Leonard families were not par
intimate, and Mrs. Leonard |
thinks that her daughter must have
been thinking of her brother George,
reporter living at Bergen Point, and
started to go to him, but becoming cold
stopped at Mr.. Mandigo's. She had
no money when found, and nobody
knows how she paid her fare on the
ferry. She has been taking medicine
for her lung trouble. and Mrs. Leonard
thinks that possibly it temporarily af-
fected her reason. She was sleeping
peacefully last night, and apparently
not much worse for her midnight ex-
perience.