The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1901-09-26
FOUND IN HIDING.
Helen BloOdgood, Missing Heir
ess, Taken Home by Mother.

New York. Sept. 26.-Helen A. Blood
good. the 1S-year-o daughter of Will
liam Bloodgood, who left her home,
50 Irving place, last Thursday morning,
and for whom a ''conhdential' police
alarm was sent out on Saturday, was
found in an obscure hotel at Basking
Ridge N j. She had been at the hotel
since Friday morning, living under an
assumed name, and her conduct during
that time seems to have been that of a.
person in a perfectly normal mental
condition.
Just once while at this hotel did Miss
BIoodgood absent herself from the
neighborhood for any length of time.
That was on Saturday when she left at
o'clock in the morning, ostensibly to
visit her mother, who she said was liv-
ing at Summit, short distance away,
and returned late in the afternoon.
All this time she was living under the
name of Louise johnson and claimed q
residence in Summit, and none of those
with whom she came in contact at
Basking Ridge thought of doubling her
story until they read in yesterdays
newspapers of the missing Miss Blood
good of New York
Miss Johnson of Summit fitted too
accurately the descriptions of Miss
Bloodgood of New York for her identity
to be doubted for long, and the hotel
proprietor, without letting the young
woman know anything about it. com
municated with her father and mother
here, and speedily established the fact
that his guest was the missing girl
Her mother went after her at once, and
she was back home again shortly be-
fore 6 o'clock this evening.
While the girls sudden departure
from New York and her prolonged alb
sence from home when there seems to
be no doubt that she was in her right
mind and fully aware of the anxiety
she was causing her parents is strange,
the Bloodgood family have done all in
their power to explain it, and they have
been especially frank in giving out for
publication all that they have been able
to learn Of their daughters exploit
Mr.. Bloodgood accompanied by his
brother-in- law, went to police head
quarters last night and in the pres
ence of Captain Titus of the detective
bureau told all that he knew of his
daughters mysterious absence from
home and consented to answer any
questions that were put to him.
Mr.. BIoodgood has succeeded in trac-
ing every movement Of his daughter
from the time that she left home until
she was found today save her exact
w-herea bouts on Thursday night. the
night of the day when she left home.
Miss Bloodgood says that she staid al a
farmhouse near Summit on that night,
and Mr.. Bloodgood says that he will
look I'D the farmer with his daughter
tomorrow. When Miss BIoodgood is in
a little more settled condition she will
also be questioned about her absence
from the BaSk1ng Ridge motel almost
all of Saturday.
In the meantime it is stated on the
authority of Mr.. B1oodgood that the
girl is in excellent mental and physical
condition, and has suffered no i'll
effects from her rather unusual excur-
sion to the country
The question as to why the girl left
home in the way she did is a rather
delicate one. Hints of dissatisfaction
on her part with the constant surveiI-
lance of a governess have been thrown
out from time to time since Miss Blood
good went away, but this story of dis
satisfaction is denied by her parents.
They say that the girl has suffered from
fits of depression for some time and that
on Wedne sday night the night before she
went away. she cried all night They at
tribute ner conduct n leaving nome 50
and her. remaining away from home 50
long to hesitancy to face her parents af-
ter having. caused them SO much anxiety
and trouble