The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-24
MISS BLOODGOOD HOME AGAIN.
FOUND IN An OBSCURE HOTEL
IN BASkING RIDGE, n. y.
Felt Depressed and Ran Away for Change
-Then stayed. Fearing . Seeding
Spent a Night In n Farmhouse
Ignorant Of the Alarm Over Her.

Helen A. Bloodgood. tho eightecn-year-
old daughter Of William Bloodgood. who
left her home az ~ Irving place last Thur
day morning. and for whom a 'conhden-
tial- police alarm was sent out on Satur-
day. was found yesterday In an obscure
hotel az Basklng Ridge. y. J. She had
t.en at the hotel since Friday morning.
living under an assumed name. and her
conduct during tina timc seems To have
ben that OF a person In a perfectly norma
mental condition.
just once. while a. this hotel. did Miss
~nloodgood absent herself from the neigh
borhood for any length Of timo. That
was on Saturday. when she left st o O'Clock
In the morning. ostensihly TO visit her
mother. who she said was living at summit A..
a short distance away. and returned late Ia
the afternoon. All this time she was living
under the name Louise Johnson. and claim
Ing n residence in summit. and none Of
those with whom she came in contact az
Backing Ridge thought Of doubling her
story until they read In yesterday news
papers OF the missing Miss Bloodgood Of
New York.
Miss Johnson Of Summit fitted too
accurately the description Of Miss Blood
good 81 New York, for her identity To be
doubted for very long. and tho hotel pro-
pretor. without letting the young woman
know anything about IL. communicated
with her father and mother hero. and
sp.edily established the fact that his guest
was the missing girl Her mother went
after her at once and she was back home
again shortly before o o'clock last even
ing
While the girls sudden departure from
New YorA and her prolonged absence
from home when there seems TO be no
doubt thai she was In her hight mind and
fully WAR Of the anxiety she was caus-
ing her parents II strange, the ~Bloodgood
family have Ions all In their power 20 ex-
plain IL. and they have bten especially
frank Ia giving out for publication all that
they have been able 10 learn OF their daugh-
ter's exploit. Mr.. Bloodgood. accompanied
by his br~other-in-lav. :. F. Kuneo. went
70 Police Headquarters last night and In
the presence of Capt. Titus OF the Detcc-
tive Bureau told all that he knew o. his
daughters mysterious absence from home.
and consented TO answer any questions
that were put to him about Il.
Mr.. Bloodgood has sucCs-ded In tracing
every movement Of his daughter from
the Tune hat she left home until she was
tOulAu NtrttTlt1s FhNt IfI fAtkt NIfIt-
abouts on Thursday night. tho night OF
the DAY when she left home. Miss Blood
good says that she stayed az a farmhouse
near Summit on that night, and MIR. Blood
good says that he will look up the farmer
With his daughter to-day or tomorrow.
When Mis Bloodsood il In n little moro
settled condition she will also be questioned
about her absence from the Basking Ridge
hotel almost all Of Saturday. In the mean
time Il N stated. on the authority OF MIR.
nlnnA1nad that tha utrl IL In RIpsllaut
mental and physical condition. and has
suffered no III effects from her rather un-
usual excursion into the country.
The question a. 10 why the girl left home
In the way she did IL a rather delicate one,
Hint. of Dissatisfaction on her part with
the constant surveillance Of a aoverne-a,
have been thrown out from time To time.
since Miss ~Bloodgood went away but
her parents. They say that the girl has
suffered from fits Of depression for some
time, and hat on "Wednesday night, tho
night before she went away, she cried
all night. They attribute her conduct
In leaving home 50 suddenly To one of These
fits Of depression. and her remaining away
from home 80 long. TO hesitanoy TO face
her pareni~ after having caused them 30
much anxiety and trouble.
This il Mr.. Bloodgood'H story Of his
daughters escapade "a he told II last
Il want TO say that 'he stories that have
been printed about my daughter being an
epileptic are without tho slightest founda-
ton Neither she nor anv other member
Of my family has ever suffered from epilepsy.
and Miss Bloodgood's absence from hoine
L. not Ia 10 attributed to that cause She
b. young and at times We have detected
In her signs OF depression or hystcria
These hav. hsrn ~ a rule very mild and
not sufficient To cause us a. ApIrchend
any such serious result as has followed
this last NJ.
we returned from the A~dirondncks
on Wednesday after Travelling all night
We got back to town on "A wet and dismal
day and nv daughter showed sigus OF
depreSs!on on wednesday afternoon. She
cried most Of "Wednesday night, but as she
was in n much better frame Of mind on
Thursday morning we thought no NOR.
Of the matter. the same thing having g.
CURED before. About II O'Clock on that
morning my daughter said that she would
20 out Tor a walk and perhaps do a It'll"
shopping. Told her that the stores would
b. closed, hut she said she would enjoy
tho walk anyway ! remarked a. she
went out that she had better not ~ too
far and she callcd back that she would not.
She did not come back again as you all
know.
suspected night away that she had gone
away In one of her fits of depression, and
W. made rrnnUnm"uts To traor her. We
arr satisfied now that IA" ~,rnes ~ mourn
mk iof fTFNhfNlH Nl'hlffNN All over the
city on that Thursday. had much To do
with tho depression that Helen was suffer
ing from. She saws h'r-'lf that ~" general
silence and the mas-.s u black crSto on all
sides. mad" her long for III" country. and
that answering to an impulse too strong
for resistance. she decided to 20 out into
Jersey n way. Al that time no idea 81
STAYING away was In her mind. and 4, was
only later, when she discN how foolish
she had been. that she decided TO remain
away.
when Helen left the house. she wandered
around for a time and then went down
"a Eighth street and boarded a crpsstown
car She went over ~ the Christopher
s;rc.' ferry and there bought a ticket for
summit, y. J This was ~. most natural
thing for her TO do, a. N" has spent much
time near there. For a long while w lived
al Lewcllyn Park, near Orange, and ~
inemhers Of the BaltusTol Golf club. ""
have driven around that country dozens uf
times She knew every inch 81 n and as
80" WAS longing for familiar plhc'- sh"
d"cided 10 e. to summit. She bought
q return ticket meaning To CONF" hack
SION and she would have done 80 had sh"
l--u la a perfectly responsible condition.
When IN" got To summit shc d,,ld'd Co
vail out into the country ~" l1- always
i--'n q great walker ana car cuyvr a great
sIHnl - psNHfu.t she dial d rTauf tIta4I tf