New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-28
WAS LOST AND Is FOUND.
ADVENTURE OF A CONNECTICUT BANKERS
DAUGHTER
MISS JULIA HALL wANDERs AWAY FROM NEW.
CANAAN on THANKSGIVING DAY-FIFTY
MEN SEARCHED FOR HER-FOUND
YESTERDAY IN A HOTEL on

NewCanaan, Conn, Nov. 81 Special. The
anxiety occasioned by the disappearance Of Miss
Julia Hall, who suddenly left home here last
Thanksgiving Day. was relieved to-day when the
young woman was found. -Four young men,
friends Of Miss Hall, who also live here discovered
| her in the Neptune House. in the Pelham Road,
| near New-Rochee. at l o'clock this afternoon.
She is now with her parents here
There is considerable mystery about her dis
appearance A few Of her acquaintances say that
she is not sound mentally, while many Others are
of the opinion that she is mentally well as
she ever was. and they cannot account for her
| strange actions. She is the only daughter of
Russell L. Hail. the president Of the First National
Bank Of NewCanaan. Apparently she had
everything she could wish for, and nothing par
ticularly strange in her dcmeanor noticed
before shc left home Her father and mother are
Church here. and Miss Julia has always taken
deep interest in church affairs. She taught
class in the Sunday-school, and was also the
treasurer Of the Sunday-school Miss HALL is
thrty-thrce years old, but she does not look to
lc more than twenty-five She has pretty and
intellectual face. Her eyes are hazel, and her
hair is auburn. She Is tall and slender and her
manners refined. She is graduate of the
Normal School in this county, and has an excellent
musical education. She is a young woman who
has made friends easily, and the friendship
lasting.
The Hall family have lived here FOR many years,
and n many entertainments have been given at
their house by Miss Hall and her brother Louis
who is a graduate of Yale Of the class OF 1890,
the daughter was known TO nearly every person
In Ncw-Canaan. In fact. in this place nearly
everybody knows everybody else and when it was
II.
Thursday that Miss Hall had suddenly end mys-
tcrousy disappeared it caused considerable excite
mcnt 1t was no sooner lclrncd that the daughter
Of the banker had disappeared than the people Of
the town began 10 search for her. \ band Of
fifty men was organized and the friends Of Miss
Hall started out TO make a systematic search for
her All the towns between Ncw-Canaan and
Stamford and Stamford and Mt Vernon OIL the
New-York and New Haven Railroad were vsitcl
and the search was not discontinued until the
missing woman was found.
About three or four weeks ago Mr.. and Mrs
Hall noticed that their daughter did not act like
herself She protested. when questioned. that
nothing was the matter With her but she appeared
TO I've melancholy, and her parents say they were
unable 10 cheer her They are also unable TO say
what caused the sudden change In her disposition.
They are certain, they say, that there is no love
cause them much alarm. On the afternoon OF
Thanksgiving Day Miss Julia was sitting in the
parlor talking to her parents when suddenly she
went 20 her room upstairs, packed an old-faShioned
vali,c shc had in her room. and left the house
without saving a word 10 any of the household.
Mr. and Mrs Hall learned early in the evening
that their daughter had gone. and upon visiting
hcr Toom they saw that she had made prepara-
tons to remain away for some time The draw
cf. in her dressing had been partially cmptcd
of their contents, but most Of her money and all
Il her jcwclry had been left behind. Even gold
bracelet sct with diamonds and II pair Of earrings
which she generally wore were left behind
Many Of her friends were informed that night of
her disappearance and an Investigation Was at
once started
IL was soon learned that Miss Hall had bought
"A ticket for Stamford, and that she had arrived
N that town at 6 40 p. m. and soon attcrward
had taken a train going to Ncw-lork The station
agent at Stamford said h. thought woman Of
Miss Halls description had purchased ticket for
New Rochelle on Thanksgiving night Gcors"
Scclcy, jr, the young man who traced Miss
Hall as far as Stamford, and when he learned that
She had probably gone 10 Ncw-l'ochellc, Ii" com
municatcl with her father. Mr. Hall implorcd |
him by telegraph 10 90 10 New-Rochcll" at once
and spare no expense in prosecuting the search |
for his missing daughter.
The next day when it became generally known |
among Miss Halls friends that she was missing, |
the band Of fifty was organized, and forty OF IN"
number started ont 10 visit all the towns along |
the Ncw-lIaycn Railroad, from Stamford u New
York City. The others visited New-lork ana |
called upon the missing girls friends there
Among the wcl-known and prominent people
in Ncw-Canaan who took part in the search were
Iltnfp oh Ernn
.on. George Sccley ir.. the Rev DR.. Bower.
lrvng Smahorn. Frederick, NJ IIawlcy, Joseph
l.. Silliman, r. w Benedict, Frank L. Johnson
Elias T. Johnson. William Gilbert, Marvin Merrill.
Frederick Ross. and Charles w. Hall. Miss Halls
uncle All day Friday and all day Saturday the
friends of Mis- Hall continued their search.
Nount Vernon, Pelham Manor. New-Rochcc,
East Chester. White Plains, Riverside. Bar
tow. and other towns visited, but not
trace Of the missing woman did they succeed in
finding
This morning the search again taken
nm and MS everybody here was particularly in
torcstcd in the disappearance of Miss Hail. s"v-
cral more Of the residents here who could leave
their business Sunday joined in the search. DIR.
Bower announced that no services would he
held in the Methodist Church account of the
dsappearancc Of one of their congregation DIR.
Bower notified the congregation ny WHY '"''
there would be- 10 services, "A he was at New
Rochelle Yesterday morning. and was one of the
searching party who was taking an active part
The search was continued oday. Many of the
men were in bugsics, and many farmhouScs around
Ncw-R Rochelle were visited. The scarchers were
not rewarded until 80 p. m. AZ that hour
Nlcs~rs. Sccley, Rulcdgc, Ductchcr and Gleason,
who were on the Pelham road rear Nrw
Rochelle, were told by Il man ON horSrpack tnat
- woman answering Miss Halls description was
at the Neptune House. half "a mile awny me
four voung men fastened to the place M once ana
Mr. and Mrs Mcmahon. the Own"rs of the Nep-
fune House told the young men that Young
woman was i'm the house, but they dld nor kh3"
her name, she had declined 70 sly WIN I slc