The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-05-04
FORMER RESIDENT HERE.
Was Miss Sadie Skinner, q Niece of Mrs.
S. B. WOollet.
NOW MRS. AL LAND OF KANSAS CITY.
Mysterious Disappearance from Her Home Two
Weeks Ago, and was Found IN Rock
Island Depot at Topeka.


City, Kansas, is a niece Of Mrs.
5. B. Woollett of this place, and
several years ago spent some
time with her aunt here, attend.
ing the McConnellsburg Normal
when the editor of the NFWS was
principal.
She is now about 30 years OF
age, and with her husband, her
three children and her mother,
Mrs. Frances Skinner, resides
IN Kansas City.
Two weeks ago last Saturday
morning, after doing the morn.
ing's work, she, with about a
hundred dollars IN her purse, left
her home to go down street Il
pay some store bills and to order
a ton Of coal. AS she had not III
tended to he long away from
home, and not having returned
by noon, the family became very
unea ", and Mr.. Land, who has q
night run and Is home through
the day, went out to look for her.
Upon inquiry he found that she
had not been at any of the places
to which she had started to go
except the coal office, and there
she had ordered a ton of coal.
Returning home and finding his
wife still absent, the family were
thoroughly alarmed, and the po,
lice were notified and a asystemat
lc search made for her. Notices
appeared in all the city uewspa
perS; but no trace of her was
had until ten o'clock Sunday
night, when Mr.. Land received q
telegram from the proprietor OF
hotel in Topeka-a city 15C
miles distant-saying that a wo.
man had just stopped there who
answered to the description OF
Mrs. Land, that she was in a de.
lirious condition, and that she
would be detained subject to Mr..
Lands order.
Mr.. Land reached the hotel at
Topeka next morning, and was
informed that a watchman had
been kept at the door of the wo-
man s room all night. Mr.. Land
was taken to her room but it was
found vacated for during the
few minutes the watchman had
been absent making an exchange
with a day man, the woman had
escaped. From the description,
Mr.. Land felt sure that the wo
man was his wife, as she after
ward proved to be.
Mr.. Land was now IN as great
a dilemma as before, and was
obliged to apply to the police and
employ detectives. In a short
time, however, she was located
in waiting room at the Rock Is.
land Depot crouched away back
in a corner under a seat, her hair
disheveled, her clothing torn aud
bedraggled, her shoes gone, her
money gone, and her mind in a
bewildered, dazed condition that
made it impossible to learn any,
thing from her as to what had
brought her INTO that pitiab BILE
state, or how she had got so far
away from home.
Her husband tenderly cared
for the unfortunate woman, took
her at once to their home at Kan.
sas City and placed her under
the care of medical experts, and
it was several days before reason
began to reappear; and while a
late letter 10 Mrs. Woollet says
she is rapidly improving, her
mind is a blank as to what hap
pened on that Saturday, how she
got to Topeka or home. She
knows nothing about what be
came of her money.
To say what happened to Mrs
Land TO cause her TO be in such {
condition would be only to guess
and will perhaps never b,
known.
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