The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-06-09
Miss Elsie Fry Found at JarbaIO
Near LeayenWorth.
Wandered Into Hotel at Noon
Friday.
APPEARS DEMENTED.
Unable to Give an Account Of
Her Wanderings.
News From Every Section Of the
State.

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Leavenworth. June 9-Elsie Fry. who |
disappeared from the home of her sister, |
Mrs. A. c. Sanderson, 1880 Liberty |
street, last Monday. has been found. She |
is being cared for at Jarbalo, 16 miles |
from Leavenworth, by Mrs. Eeton, |
who, with her husband, conducts the |
village hotel. At least, a young woman |
suffering from brain trouble. but who /
remembers that her first name is Elsie |
and that she had been in Kansas City, |
and whose description corresponds with |
that of the missing young lady, is there. |
She wandered into the hotel Friday |
noon and complained that her head hurt |
her so she could hardly stand the pain. |
Mrs. Ecton took care OF her and sent for |
a physician, who gave her sedative. |
When the pain had subsidized she said
she could remember that her first name
was Elsie and that it seemed she had
been in Kansas City recently. Conduc-
tor Watson, of the LeaVenWofth & To- |
peka railroad, was told of the occur
renee, and he instructed Mrs. Ecton TO
keep the young woman there and he
would make inquiry about her.
Conductor Watson notified Chief
Cranston, Of the LeaVenWOTth police, /
who promptly telegraphed the Kansas
recognized as that of a young woman
seen in Leavenworth last Tuesday.
On that day good looking young
woman with pretty blue eyes and an
abundance of rich blonde hair called
at the hair dressing establishment of
Mrs E. Lighter on Delaware street, to
whom she wanted TO sell her hair She
said she was alone in the world and
needed money and that personal APP
| pearanees did not count for much with
her. Mrs. Lightner would not consent
to be party to such a sacrifice, but
instead helped her out of her own purse
and directed her to Mrs. William Lam
| born, on Fifth avenue. for work She
| called on Mrs. Lanborn and after a
! converse ton was told TO call on the
| following day. This was the last seen
| of her here The only information she
! gave about herself was that she had
friend. Mrs Neish, at Hoe sta
| ton.
Conductor Watson held. his train for
a few minutes this afternoon to give
| Kansas City friends an opportunity to
| catch the train.
The Leavenworth chief of police says
| that a young woman looking extremely
tired and half sick, appeared in Jarbalo,
and went to the hotel where she sat
in the Office for several hours without
speaking to anyone She looked as
| though she had walked several miles
| and appeared to be in a half-demented
condition The landlord Of the hotel,
noticing her, asked her what she want
| wished to be left alone. In answer to
| another question, she said that her
name was Elsie" but refused to give
| her last name. doctor was sent for
| and she was cared for at the hotel and
| the chief OF police Of LeavenWorth notf-
| fed. He Immediately notified Chief
| Hayes, of this city. Her father and A.
| J. SaunderSon, her brOther-in-l law, went
! to Jarbalo last night.
HER VISIT TO MR.. NORDYKE.
B. r. Nordyke, the manager of the
| Pacific Express company, IS West
| Fifth street, Kansas City, has given
| the only reliable information since Miss
try'S disappearance last Monday. He
/ said that she called at his place of bus
| mess and asked for work last Monday
! afternoon. He told her that he had
| nothing to- give her, but on account of
1 her being SO pale and apparently re-
| fined. he became interested in her and
| asked her a few questions, to each of
! which she cheerfully responded. She
said that she had been teaching school
near junction City and that she had
come to Kansas City to earn enough
money to pay for further education and
was stopping with a sister. Mrs. A j.
| Saunderson, 1890 Liberty street, of this
| city. When she left his establishment
! she started toward Delaware street,
| saying that she was going to her sis
! ter's home. She did not take a Della
street and Mr. Nordyke IS of the opinion
that she took either Main street or a
Fifth street car
He did not see her again, but the fol-
lowing day, Tuesday, J. E Wright, a
clerk in Richards & Conoyer's hard
ware store, on Fifth street, saw her at
the corner of Fifth and Main streets.
Mr. Wright is sure that he was not
mistaken in the girl, as he went to
school with Miss Fry in Junction City.
He spoke to her, but she paid no at
tention to him. He is quite sure that
she heard him call and that she recog-
MED him, but for some reason she did
not wish to let him know that she did
Miss Fry is a prepossessing girl with
expressive blue eyes and a wealth of
blonde hair. She is very refined and in
telligent. The day she left her sisters
| house she said that she was going to a
store on Main street to change a hat
which her sister had bought for one of
her children. Mr.. Saunderson told the
police that when Miss Fry arrived at
} the house she had $40 in her pocket
book. but believes that she left it in
| her trunk. He said that he did not
wish TO examine the trunk until he
vas fully assured that his sister-in-law
) was demented or had been lost When
: she was talking with Mr.. NOrdyke she
, said that she had only $40 in her pos
session and it might have been that she
left the balance of her money in the
trunk and then forgot about it. A
; groceryman living near Mrs. SaEnder-
sons place said yesterday that on Mon
: day Miss Fry came into the store and
made small purchase and rendered a