New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-08-27

SHE WAS WORKING AS SERVANT IN
FITCHBURG. MASS.

TUE MISSING WONAN's MIND WAS BLANK
,,or THE TIME SHE LEFT A STORE IN THIS
CITY TILL. SHE SAW HER SISTER YES
rERDAY-A REMARKABLE STORY.
Syracuse Aug 2s.-Miss Lucretia clark, the schoo'
teacher who mysteriously disappeared from tla"
field y j. on Friday morning. August y mas pee"
found She was discovered at an early nour 'n's
morning at the home OF ex-Mayor Charles D. hay
dor No % Holt-st. Fitchburg, Mass. by Supern-
.ords,t Louis J. Beck OF Becks secret service
,rreau New-York who has been At work on the
oasa since last Friday. Detective Beck arrived IN
,s,s city tonight with Miss Clark in charge
since Miss C.ark's disappearance from P'ainneid
TOM r. Sweet. her brother n-aw. who lives In
49,. c,,v has followed up every clew available ne
ooaaded ~ New-York and last Friday the BECK
secret service bureau, OF New-fork, was put III
charge OF the Detective BECK uaceu ''''
clark fron, Painfcld to New-York. where sne 'is-
tod Nacy's store. Beck's name became KNOW" II"
connection with the mystery. and on the second DAY
=, h,s ,rvestigatlo he received several anonymous
letters. threatening him with bodily harm II ne per
s,s,ad in following up the case. The postmarKs Oh
tho ,etters were traced and the places visited.
Detective Beck says that the woman oeoa'"e
mentally deranged and knew nothing OF "na' nap
nened after she left Macy's She had wandered INTO
a sixth-ave elevated train and rode TO Cortahdt-s''
Unconscious of her actions. she boarded h'sn'
boat Of the Stonington Line.
When she reached Boston Miss clark went 10
small boarding house on TremCEt-st. On the morn
,ny of August 10 she appeared at an employment
bureau AZ NO 6Sl Westinghouse. and asked for a
,aoo os a domestic She got work in the Hayden
FANNY Of Fitchburg. Here she gave her name as
N,rv Rurke and from that time until this morn
inc sbe never left the house attending to her duties
az domestic in the closest manner
Meanwhile Detective Beck was on her TRACK. put
NOT urtu last night was he fully convinced that the
domestic Mary Burke and the school teacher MISS
Clark we're one and the same person To-day ne
went 70 the HAYDEN house. lie found Miss clark
dustng the parlor furniture She was quietly to.d
she was to accompany Beck to syracuse. lhis sne
nositivelv refused to do. Then an elder sister OF
Miss Clark living New-fork' was teiegrapheo
for MI. r,o-a,ia rocognzed
ber From that time her mind seemed to come back
to her She fell into her sisters arms ana "ept
hi,,eriv How or when she had left New ork sne
was unable to say All blank from the time
she had left Macy's store.
Miss Lucretia Clark the school teacher referred te
| IN tho foregoing dispatch. disappeared from Plain
es,d about & o'clock on the morning of August g.
Miss Clark is thirty-nine years old Her nome ha'
| hoo, IN Syracuse In Syracuse lives her brother
in-law Iohn Edison Sweet. who was tot many years
a nrofessor in Cornell University. ana IS now presi
| den, M of the Straight Line Engine Company
| Miss Clark who had been a teacher n the Bairo
| school in Norwalk. Conn., went 70 Palnneid .c
start a fashionable school Tor girls apout ,n,et
weeks ago She left Plainheld with five ffty-dolai
hills to negotiate In this cly the purchase VI Iul
ture for the school Since then all trace OF her was