The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-07-06
MRS. FERGUSON RETURNS
Queer Mystery in the Case of Kan
sas City Woman.

Kansas City. Mo-. July 5.-After disap-
pearing from her home. husband and
baby girl and remaining away a whole
week, Mrs. c. S. Ferguson of 3l5 Car
field avenue, Kansas City. Kan. was
found last night and returned TO her
home. When found she seemed dazed
from some drug and a package Of NOR
phine was found in her purse. She says
that when she left home last THURSDAY
she rode to Kansas City and transferred
to a Wyandotte street car and rode TO
Thirteenth. where she got off and walked
east. on Thirteenth, between Main and
Walnut. a hack came by with two women
in IT, One Of them screamed and leaned
out and called to Mrs. Ferguson to come
and help her She walked out TO the hack
and some one sneaked up behind her,
grabbed her and threw her into the hack.
From that moment, she says. her mind
was a blank until she recognized her hus-
band last night in police headquarters.
She says she does not know where she
was or whom she was with. She knows
only that all the time she was under the
influence of the drug she was seeking to
escape from those who held her in cap
tivity. She says she did escape once and
wandered around the streets, but they re-
captured her and took her back and held
her until she escaped last night.
The underclothing and the hat that
Mrs. Ferguson had on last night are not
what she wore when she disappeared. All
that was left o. the SO she took away
with her was cents.
For week all the policemen in the two
Kansas Citys had been looking for Mrs
Ferguson. At $50 o'clock last night she
was found wandering in the Hannibal
yards opposite the Union depot. search
ing for her husband, who is a switchman
and works in those yards Eddie Don
nelly n fireman on the Chicago < Alton
railway. discovered her. He had known
her for years. he knew OF her disappear
ance and OF the reward offered BIS her
husband lie took her 10 the Union depot
and called the police. She was taken TO
police headquarters.
The police sent FOR Mr.. Ferguson. the
husband and he took her in a carriage
10 their home
DR.. Richmond was attending Mrs. Fer
guson when reporter called at her home
this forenoon. The blinds we're down and
all was quiet about the house. Mr.. Fer
guson came out and said:
The doctor says ny wife Is suffering
from a drug. chat she has been under the
influence OF IL for several days She =
not dangerously fli. She is under a men
rai strain. hut the doctor says she VIII
BE- all right in q dag or two. Ny wife
tells me that she vas abducted on Thir-
teenth street between Main and Walnut.
bv two women n a hack
.-Ycv believe her story
Why. n course I believe Il Why
should I doubt 81"
Roy Graybnl a boy who came q Kan
sas CITY last evening on the Missouri Pa
ciac train az O'Clock from Nevada tod
the police last uisht that Mrs. Ferguson
came - Kansas City on the same train
with him.
Two laws before Mrs Ferguson sissp- 1
peares Henry smith. a former school
mate ard friend visited her on Rs way
from Slater No q Joplin TIE husband
saws Re did suspect At first that rs Eife
might have gore . Joplin. bat now h (
know. she dls rot. he has TO idea =
zho abducted re-. o. Why she vas alb f
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