Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-04-25
DEAD OR DEMENTED?
The Alarming Disappearance OF a
Prominent Lady.
A MystiBsd Husband-Is She Victim OF Yes
terday Mornings Storm-A Case for
Christian Science DivinatiOn.

On Wednesday afternoon Mrs. A. c..
shugart left her home, and has not since
been seen or heard Of.
Whether she wandered off in fit of
mental alteration and became a victim
of the fury of yesterday morning s
storm, or was drowned IN the ruthless
Trinity, or whether she still lives. are
questions that puzzle her husband and
acquaintance.
The police are stalled, her husband is
paralyzed with the suddenness of the
blow, her two pretty children cry for
their mamma with no one to comfort
them, and the neighborhood of Cherry
| and Jackson streets is aroused over the
strange affair.
A. G. Shugart is well-known travel
ing man in the employment of a. j.
Anderson of Fort Worth. On
Tuesday morning he went out
on the road. wednesday after
noon Mr.. Shugart expressed an
intention of calling on an acquaintance
who lived only few blocks away, and
attiring herself in her usual street garb,
she stepped forth.
She bas never been seen. since, nor is
there the slightest clue to her wander
ings. she never reached the house to
which she started to go.
The children are aged fourteen months
and nine years respectively. They do
not yet realize the awful predicament in
which their mother may be placed.
Yesterday morning telegram reached
Mr.. Shugart of Hillsboro, advising him
of the trouble, and he reached home last
night A GAZETTE man was present
when he was making investigation into
the trouble. He was not slow TO ex-
press his opinion of the affair.
cit is the Christian science people that
have done this thing he said. ''About
two years ago my wife first became inter
ested in that business! and you know how
any thing of that sort affects a woman.
she got studying and brooding over 1t e..
All the literature she could get on it she
read, and she eommuned with herself in
her own room by the hour. She
was all right up to last
February, l think. when q
chap named Fisk came around and
poured some more of the Christian
Science doctrines into her ear. Then
she kind o. lost her mind, and began to
| act strangely, tell you, you would
weep if [ were to relate the life we have
had since then.
emo, we have had no family troubles
of any kind. We have always been like
sweeteearts, and she has never lacked
money. We lived happily as man and
wife, only when this putrid doctrine
got into her head. She would
go out there on the bank (the storm
sewer Is being built along Jackson street
in front Of the residence, and the dirt is
piled up many feet high by the hour,
thinking about that Internal science. You
see. that stack of books? Well, that's
all Christian science. In the morning
1 am going to make a big bonfire of the
whole thing
''Have you no idea where your wife
went to?'' was the reporters inquiry.
"Well, L have a theory. 1 have
found in her room few letters from
woman in Paris, who is also one of the
sisters in the Christian science faith, and
who has been working on nv wife's
feelings. My wife has often in
feeling desired to be alone by
herself in order to mediate;
and it may be she has gone to Paris to
this woman. 1t is possible she wandered
off in the city and met her death by
drowning or other tragic means In the
morning I will make an end of all this
trash about Christian science that she
has gathered around here.
'FNo, don't do that, papa. Mamma
won t like it when she comes home -
was the Interpolation of the pretty nine
year-old girl, who had been listener to
the conversation without understanding
its sad subject.
"Never mind, child,' the father re-
piled in saddest accents, ''your mamma
won know anything about it. -