Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-07
MRS. GARDNER FOUND.
The Missing Endeavorer Does
 Not Want to Go Home.
SHE IS WORKING AS A DOMESTIC.

Changed Her Name to Dorothy Mansfield.
 and After the Boston Convention Went
 to Norwich, Conn.,, Where She Has Now
 Been For Ten Days.
 M. Gardner of Arcadia, Neb, the Chris tian Endeavor delegate who disappeared from Boston on July 16, after causing to be written to her husband letter say ing that she had died and been buried in that city, is at present acting as a domes- tic in the home of Edward R. La Pierre at Norwich Town green, a suburb of this city, where she has been since July 2S.
 J. l.. Landers, who was sent on by the little Congregational church in Arcadia to take the body back home, was directed to her abode by Boston reporter.
 Mrs. Gardner was known in Boston as Dorothy Mansfield, and by that name here and when Mir. Landers who knows Mrs. Gardner and her husband well, en- tered the room and called her by name, she looked up in apparent surprise and said:
 "I beg your pardon, sir; am Dorothy Mansfield
 For more than an hour she kept up the deception, and it was not until MT. Lan- 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 Sum- day night. It led MT. Landers and the re- porter to East Dresden, Me-, which place they reached on Monday morning.
 There they found Mrs. Charles H. Mar shall of Cambridge, Mass, with whom Mrs. Gardner boarded under the name of Dorothy Mansfield while attending the Christian Endeavor convention. She gave into the possession of her callers the valis6 that Mrs. Gardner brought from Arcadia r and asked to have destroyed when she pur- chased trunk in Harvard square, Cam bridge, on July 15.
 The husband of the woman positively identified this valise, and the searchers succeeded in finding the store where Mrs. Gardner bought the trunk, and then the congressman who took it to the New York and New England depot in Boston on July 16 It bore tag marked Dorothy Mansfield Norwich, Conn.," and was checked to this city.
 A teachers convention was in progress in Norwich from July to 2S, and the fact that Mrs. Gardner was formerly a schoo.teachcr in Michigan and Illinois led at once to the suggestion that she was here. MT. Landers and the reporter found at the depot that the trunk had been sent to St. Albans, Vt., and from there on tC Montreal, and the chase was taken up in that direction.
 In a short time, however, came the in. formation that the sending away of the trunk from here was mistake, and then the search in Norwich was renewed, with the result given.
 Mrs. Gardner's Big Bluff. As stated, Mrs. Gardner at first persist ently and indignantly denied her iden 1 tity, and suggested that since she had evi dently been mistaken for Mrs. Gardner she would gladly write a letter to Mir Gardner and ask him to come on to Nor wich and satisfy himself that she was in | deed Dorothy Mansfield.
 She was then asked to act upon the sug | gestion, and she wrote the letter, whicl in its handwriting further confirmed hel identity. When she was asked if it wa! not true that she-went to Boston for thG | Christian Endeavor convention, she sai( l it was, and that she came from Spring 1 field Ills.
 She declined to give the names of an! 1 people she knew in Springfield, saying sh' was unwilling to have any of her friend drawn into the matter When she finall, broke down, she said she was sorry tha she had caused so much trouble, and sai' that her husband had always been kint and good to her, and she was sorry to hav left her children.
 She showed all the symptoms of per son just returning to her right mind, an' when she was quieted declared that sh could never return to Arcadia. But MT Landcrs now has charge of the woman and has no doubt that he can induce he to return to her home. No suspicion as t her personal conduct has been raised a any time since she disappeared.