Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-16
ABSOLUTELY NO TRACE
The Strange Disappearance of
 Miss Lucretia Clark.
POLICE NEVER ASKED TO FIND HER

Her KinsfOlk at Syracuse Are Very Much
 Alarmed, but Can Think of No Reason
 Why She Should So NIysteriously Absent
 Herself-A Hunt Will Soon Begin.
 NEW YORK, Aug. 16.-The case of Miss Lucretia Clark of Syracuse, who was ar ranging to open 8 fashionable school for young women in Plainfeld, N. J., and who left that place to come to this city to buy $4, 900 worth of furniture just week ago this morning and whose fate or where abouts is now mystery unless her many wealthy friends and relatives are conceal ing knowledge regarding her, is a most remarkable one.
 It was stated by those interested in Miss Clark that the police of this city had been appealed to to make thorough search of the hospitals and other institutions and had done so without finding any trace of the missing woman.
 At police headquarters yesterday Acting Chief Conlin made thorough search of the records in the bureau of information and the detective bureau, and stated posi- lively that Miss Clark s friends had never asked for police assistance, and that the police were without description of her. The only record the police have is tel egram from Miss Clark's brother -in-law, John Edson Sweet of Syracuse, asking if any trace of her had been found. As the police had not been looking for her and did not have a description of her the tele- gram was useless.
 Yet word comes from Syracuse that the missing woman's sister and niece arc prostrated with grief, and believe she has been foully dealt with, and that her broth erin law, John Edson Sweet, who is an sr, an skr1 oSf- dent of the Straight Line Engine company and man of large means, is about to in- ! augurate systematic police search for | Miss Clark.
 A Woman of Rare Intelligence The personality of Miss Clark herself makes the case the more interesting. She l is about 40 years of age. She is a woman | of rare intelligence, woman who has am | pie means and wealthy relatives and a woman whose career has been such as to give her a wider knowledge of affairs and a clearer business head than most women have.
 In short, she is new woman in the in- | depreciation of the phrase which thinking, earnest women of advanced ideas place | upon it. Something over feet tall, | called blonde. and yet not Q brunette, with a quick, energetic manner and a happy disposition, she impressed all who | met her as a woman thoroughly able to l take care of herself.
 To Plainfield from which she disap- | peared, she was practically a stranger. She ha1 been an instructor for several | years in Miss Baird's fashionable school ! for girls at Norwalk, Conn.,, to which | place she had gone from her homo in Syr- ! acuse. It was to start school of her aft t1kl0 iaf1 cfe had been teaching, that she went to Plain ! field about two weeks ago.
 She found in Plainfield just such a building as she wanted in the Harmed in- stitute on the estate of James E. Maritime, | a cousin of ex-Judge Maritime of the court | of general sessions in this city, recently ! deceased.
 Not the Slightest Clew. l Mir. Maritime was happy to have his \ property used for the school and was par.
 ticularly pleased with Miss Clark and hel | plans. With the exception of the mem
 bers of the Maritime family and of Garrett ! O. Packer, furniture dealer of Plain | field, there are very few people there who
 made even speaking acquaintance with
 Miss Clark, as she was slow to make l friends.
 Only ten days ago Miss Clark went tc
 Plainfed to live. She brought all her per
 sonal effects from Syracuse. She also
 brought as companions until she should
 get her school in running order Mis-:
 Irene NJ. Yanne, a niece, 19 years old.
 Friday morning before o'clock sht
 left her niece, wearing a simple travelling
 gown of brown cloth, and leaving all hel
 jewelry behind she said she was coming
 to New York to complete arrangements
 for the purchase of the furniture. I She loft her niece S9 30 Sayino Sht
 would leave her more, but she had only
 five $50 bills, showing these bills to hel
 niece. Then, in the best of spirits ant
 saying she would be back in time for sup
 per- for which she had given orders, sh'
 started alone for the depot at Plainf1eld.
 Not soul who knew her can be fOunC
 to say she las been seen since or that th'
 slightest lew as to what became of he | has been secured.