Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-27
LUCRETlA CLARK FOUND
Missing Teacher Was Working
 as a Servant In Fitchburg.
SHE IS RESTORED TO HER FRIENDS.

SHE IS RESTORED TO HER FRIENDS.
 She Remembers Almost Nothing of Her
 Whereabouts During the Seventeen Days
 That She Has Been Missing-A Detective
 Traced Her to Massachusetts.
 SYRACUSE, Aug. 27.-Miss Lucretia
 Clark the schoo!teacher who mysterious
 ly disappeared from her home in Plain
 field, N. J., about, three weeks ago. has
 been restored to her friends here. She
 was found yesterday by relative in the
 house of OK Mayor Charles S. Hayden, 2S
 Holt street, Fitchburg, Mass, where she
 had taken place as housemaid under the
 namc of Mary Burke It is feared that
 her mind is unbalanced.
 The way Miss Clark found her way to
 Mr. Hayden's s house is very strange. She
 remembers nothing from the time she
 took the train in Plainfield until she found
 herself pricing furniture in Macy's stoEe
 in New York city. She has a hazy re-
 maintenance of going to a Fall River boat
 bound for Boston, but why or when she
 got there shC cannot explain.
 Miss Adele F. Gillett is relative of
 Lawyer Hayden and manages his house.
 hold. She was ill Boston on Aug. 10 and
 found Miss Clark in an employment bu-
 rcau at G9l Washington street. Miss Gil
 lett immediately engaged Miss Clark, who gave the name of Mary Burke and
 they left for Fitchburg, arriving at D.
 III. that day. Miss Gillctt said that Judge
 Hayden had suspected that Miss Burke
 was not what she seemed. She came into
 his service on Aug. 10. She did her work in q most systematic manner. Expert medical aid will be employed
 and everything possible done to restore
 her to mental health. Physically there is no pcrccptiblo change in her save for the peculiar look of her eyes that bcspeaks tho dcrangod mind.
 Miss Clark disaRpcarcd from Plainficld, \. J., Aug. 9, dpout o'clock in the morning. She haa leased school build ing there and had mado extensive ar rangcmCnts to opch a young ladies school. Miss Clark is highly educated woman, with good family connections. She has means and was for somo time a teacher in Miss Bard's fashionable school for girls i in N"rwalk, ssConn.
 Was Missing Seventeen Days. The detective Beck, took hold of the i case last Thursday and went to Plain field and looked over some of Miss Clark $ ] correspondence and papers Among them he found letters and circulars which led him to a dry goods store nt the corner of
 Sixth avcnlc and Fourteenth street, New { York. He traced her across the Liberty street ferry, and from tho description of her actions given by persons who had seen
 woman answering her description on
 the boat came to the conclusion that she was suffering from temporary aberra- tiOn.
 To 1sal ,N. ington boat on the night of Aug. for Providence. The tickctnan and officers oi tho boat noticed her queer acting and saw her board q train for Boston, where she
 arrived saturday morning, Aug. 10. Miss Clark then assumed the namc of Mary Burke and registered at an employment | bureau, at GHl Washington street, where ! she was found later in the day by Miss 1 Gillette, who WaS looking for u compan ! ion.
 She was cngagrd at a salary of $3 | week. Mir. Hayden and Miss Gillette SAW i at once that Miss Clarke was we'll odu cated and talented woatan, and surmised 1 that she was not the person she appeared to be. At midnight Monday night the de | tcctive, after travelling for three day. without rest, located her in Fitchburg | through the employment agency. Denied Her Identity at First. 1 He went Monday morning to Mir Hay 1 dcn's house and found Miss Clark cn 1 gagged in light housrwork At first sho de
 nicd her identity, but finally said that sh, 1 was the missing woman. She refused tC { accompany him to this city, whom he sem ! for her sister, Mrs Tannc who lives a 1 .JnhnStOwn, this Statc but who was a ' Fitchburg at the time awaiting develop ! mCntS
 { .Aa sunn lS Miss Clark saw Mrs Yann, ! she immediately recognized her, and aft , CT some talk consented to come to thi l city. Miss Clark said that for three day i after she left PlainAcld her mind wa l blank. Two weeks ago today she began t. appreciate the condition sho was in anC 1 felt uS if she Was lost to her friends anC ! the world.
 The luxurinnt growth of hair on he 1 head waS cut away, and Shc had growl | thin and weak from the privations througl 1 which she had passed, and she bore only : slight resemblance tn tho pictures whicl l have been published
 l Mrs sweet received tho first infOrma 1 tion of h"E discovery shortly before 1 o'clock Monday afternoon. When Mrs ] sweet and Miss Clark met, Mrs. Swec
 ClaSprd her in her arms. hut the recogni 1 tinn was hardly whAt might he called mu tual, as Miss Clark hardly realized wher ! she WA~. ,-hr was carried to the earring
 in waiting 'And taken to the sweet resi-
 doncc, where it was found that she wa l completely InoStratcd from nervousness. Tho causu of Miss Clark $ trouble is be 1 flowed to be uuo to tho worry and excite
 mcnt incident to the opening up of he | school at I'lAiuncld, as it was q great car 1 for her to take Oil herself Her prostratio ] is of | temporary nature and it is believe 1 that with q few months rest she will b l completely rCcupcratcd,