Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-27
DAUGHTER Of
PROMINENT
CLERGYMAN
Miss Nina Brandt Z Church Work.
sr Standing High in Social
Circles in 81 Louis.
Becomes Ds'anssd After Cashins Cheek
For Sl6S io' Father and Flees From
imagined pursusr.

MISS Nina Virginia Brandt, who was
taken from train No. in this city yes
terday afternoon on orders Of Chief
Of Police J. Hayes OF ST. Louis. nav.
Ing fed from home in temporary
alteration OF mind, is the daughter of
Rev. DR.. John L. Brandt, pastor Of
the First Christian church, 1926 Lo-
Gust street, st. Louis, and president
OF the Union Realty company.
The young lady is only twenty years
Of age and had been acting as her
fathers secretary in his work in the
Realty company Al about ten O'Clock
Saturday morning she left his Office
for the bank with a check for $2SS:
which she intended TO cash 10 pay of
the clerks. She was not ,een again
by her parents or relatives AMI a
search was made over the entire, csiy
and county by detectives, police. rela
tives and friends. At ficst 1t was
feared lat she lad been taael sud
denly III, then that she had beeE as.
discovered that she had loft the city,
The iollce bell aved at ir-. that She
had eioped but those VIII Anew he,
secuted the idea.
The ,fiicers over the enti'a country
were notified ani given ~ descrip-
tion, and iaer family was ain, IS: claz-
ed with grief
She was finally locafaa Oh Santa
re train No. l and orders were sent
to this CITY 20 detain her nere. Where
she was laken in chalse os Officers
Ward nrd Cole,
She Is now at Ilis La Pension. uHaer
the care of trained nurse Mrs
Mathewson, ana has entilely regaiAea
her memory of events sp until tit
time she left st. Louis.
At first she stated TO her n1rse that
she hAd been assaulted and robbed
on leaving the bank building in ST.
Louis ana was crazed By fear she
said she had been In trouble bainre
and was afraid to so home without
the money and resolved TO leave the
city. She bought mourning SO that
she could better travel alone.
Later in the evening when she BE-.
came entirely rational she told off
ferent story. She said that she went
to the bank and had the check cashed
and then entered the ladies' waiting
room and secreted the bills in her
stocking. She went outside the build
ing and was waiting for car ana
from that time she remembers nothing.
She now states that she doesn't know
where or why she purchased mourn.
ing and how much she paid for the
garments.
Miss Brandt also says that she does
not know where she was going, and
that she only had desire to nee or
get away from something, she knows
not what. She is not now aware that
she was bound for Japan.
Besides being leader in Sunday
school and church work, Miss Brandt
had q Chinese Sunday school class
and desired to be missionary. The
father had promised his daughter to
send her to Drake university at Des
Moines, Iowa, to prepare herself for
foreign missionary work, which was
her ambition, and il was evidently her
intention, while temporarily derangAd.
to enter the mission fields az soon as
possible.
The young lady did not entirely re-
gain possession Of her faculties un-
I'll late last night, when she realized
that she had been placed under arrest
by the police in this city and burst
out crying and later tainted away.
DR.. c. c. Gordon, who had visited
her a number OF times. says that she
has evidently broken down under too
great strain and needs careful nurs-
ing. She Is very weak. having taken
little or no nourishment during her en-.
tire trip. Her nurse had her out
most Of the morning for fresh air and
exercise.
She has received telegram from
her father saying; win arrive ~.
night. All forgiven. Be cheerful.
and is anxiovsly awaiting his COMING
He vii, arrive tonight on No. 2.