Evening journal., 1895-08-07
MRS. GARDNER FOUND.
The Missing Endeavorer Does
Not Want to Go Home.
EHE IS WORKING AS A D0MEsTIO,

Changed Her Name to Dorothy Mansfield.
and After the boston Convention Went
TO Norwich. Conn.,, Where She Has Now
Been For Ten Days.
NoRwIcH, Conn, Aug. Mrs. Annie
NJ. Gardner of Arcadia, Ncb.. the Chris
tian Endcavt~ delegate who disappeared
from Boston on July rs, after causing TO
be written TO her husband a letter say
ing that she had died and been buried in
that city is at present acting as domes-
tic in the homo of Edward r. la Pierre
at Norwich Town green, a suburb Of this
city, whore she has been since July 2s.
l. l.. Landors, who was sont on by the
little Congregational church in Arcadia TO
take the body back home, was directed to
her abode by a Boston reporter.
Mrs. Gardner was known in Boston as
Dorothy Mansfield, and by that name
here, and when Mr.. Landers, who knows
Mrs. Gardner and her husband we'll en-
tered the room and called her by name
she looked up in apparent surprise and
said
IT bog your pardon, sir; am Dorothy
Mansfield"
For more. than an hour she kept up the
deception, and It was not until Mr.. Ian
ders reminded the woman Of her heart
broken husband and three little children
that she broke down and fully admitted
her identity. She then told the story of
her movements from the time she left Ar
cadia until the reporter found her here.
How She Was Found.
It is very hard to decide whether Mrs.
Gardner is insane or not. The clew to her
whereabouts was found in Boston on sun
day night. 1t led Mr.. Landers and the re-
porter to East Dresden, Me-, which place
they reached on Monday morning
There they found Mrs. Charles II. Mar
shall of Cambridge, Mass, with whom
Mrs Gardner boarded under tho namo Of
Dorothy Mansfield while attending the
Christian EndeavOr convention She gave
! into the possession Of her callers the yaliso
that Mrs Gardner brought from Arcadia
and asked to have destroyed when she pur-
chased a trunk i'm Harvard square, Cam
bridge, on July 10.
The husband of the woman positively
| identified this vaiise, and the searchers
succeeded in finding the store where Mrs.
Gardner bought the trunk, and then tho
| exprossman who took it to the New York
and New England depot in Boston on
| July 16 1t bore a tag marked Dorothy
Mansfield Norwich Conn.,, and was
checked to this city.
A teachers convention was In progress
in Norwich from July s to 2S, and the
fact that Mrs. Gardner was formerly O
schoo,teachcr IN Michigan and Illinois
led at once to the suggestion that she was
here. Mr.. Landers and the reporter found
at the depot that the trunk had boen sent
to St. Albans, Vt, and from there on t'
Montreal, and the chase was taken up II
that direction.
In a short time, however, came the IN
formation that the sending away of the
trunk from here was a mistake, and ther
the search in Norwich was renewed, witt
the result given.
Mrs. Gardner's Big Biuf.
As stated, Mrs Gardner at first persist
ontly and indignantly denied her iden
tity, and suggested that since she had evi
IDENTIFY been mistaken for Mrs. Gardne
she would gladly write a letter to Mr.
Gardner and ask him to come on to Nor
wich and satisfy himself that she was in
decd Dorothy Mansfield.
She was then asked TO act upon the sng
gcstion, and she wrote tho letter, whicl
in its handwriting further confirmed he
identity. Whom she was asked If it wa
not true that she went to Boston for tn
Christian Endeavor convention, she salt
it was, and that she came from Spring
field Ills.
She declined to give the names Of an,
people she knew in Springfield, saying sh
was unwilling to have any Of her friend
drawn into the matter. When she hnall
broke down, she said she was sorry tha
she had caused so much trouble, and sal
that her husband had always been kim
and good to her, and she was sorry 60 hav
left her children.
She showed all the symptoms of per
son just returning to her right mind, an
when she was quiotod declared that sh
could never return TO Arcadia. But MI
Landers now has charge 81 the woman
and has no doubt that he can induce he
TO return to her home. No suspicion as
her personal conduct has been raised q
any time since she disappeared.