The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1901-01-04
ANGEL NURSE MISSING.
Miss Mary Hoffman Whose Disappear
Assistant Rector of Grace Church

NEW YORK, December 25.-The
New York friends of Miss Mary Hom-
man of San Francisco. known as the
Angel Nurse who disappeared from
the Bellevue Hospital training school
for nurses ON December 18th, are
greatly alarmed over her prolonged abb
sence and fear that some harm has
fallen her.
Miss Hoffman had arranged for a
theatre party for several nurses for the
night of December 18th. She had SEE
cured the tickets and talked with her
friends of the jolly time they would
have away from the gloom of the hos
pital wards. At 3 o'clock i'm the after
noon Miss Hoffman received letter.
She read it, the color left her cheek
and she went to her room apparently
deeply agitated.
Il have received bad news" she said
to Miss Langley, her roommate. 81
win have to give up the theatre party
and stay at home
Miss Hoffman did not tell what the
trouble was, but gave the impression
that it concerned her family in san
Francisco I'm a short time am express
wagon stopped I'm front of the building.
The driver asked for Miss Hoffman,
was directed to her room, and came
out i'm a moment with a small steamer
trunk
The missing girl left the school
shortly before o'clock and went away
i'm a hanson cab that was awaiting
her She did not speak to any one,
but seemed to be in hurry AS near
as can be learned she went directly
to the Hotel Martin, at Ninth street
and University place She had dinner
there, but spent the night elsewhere.
1t is not known that she met any one
at the hotel
Miss Brennan of the hospital staff
sat in the reception room waiting for
the nurses to come in until 10 o'clock,
when the door is locked. Just as the
clock struck this hour the bell rang.
A messenger boy handed Miss Bren-
nan a note addressed to herself. The
letter was from Miss Hoffman and
read: Il have been called away upon
important business. | am sorry that
/ have 90 go and trust that my alb
sence will not cause any inconVenl-
ence."
Miss Brennan did not notice the mes
senger boy or inquire whence he came
Efforts to find him have failed.
Nothing has been heard from the girl
since that time Miss Brennan and
Miss Hoffmans classmates say her ac-
lions when she left We're very strange
and not in keeping with her usual con-
duct
, Miss Langley. her most intimate
IIltIlu dllOIE lllt ilbl St7f hli'N'9 MN
ing about her leaving. She found a
letter addressed to her of similar i'm
port to the one received by Miss
Brennan That the call which took
Miss Hoffman away was not uneN-
pected by her is shown by a circum-
stance regarding her trunk Several
days before she left she had the steam
er trunk taken to her room on the pre-
tense that she was going to pack her
summer clothes. 1t would not hold a
tenth of her apparel. 1t is rule that
no trunks can be kept in the nurses
rooms, and Miss Hoffman took a
chance in violating it in order to have
| the trunk handy when the expected
message came.
Miss Hoffman left behind several
trunks filled with expensive clothing
and a lot of valuable bric-a-brac. She
| did not take much more than single
change of clothing. Miss Brennan
thinks Miss Hoffman may have be-
come temporarily insane, though she
showed no signs of dementia before her
departure.
Miss Hoffman began her studies in
| September, 1898, and would have re-
ceived her diploma in January. Her
record in the school is without a
| blemish She attended to her duties
| faithfully and her work among the
patients in the hospital was rewarded
! by the love of the suffering ones and
! gained her the title of the Angel
| Nurse -