The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-07-09
GIRL STEALS AWAY;
RETURNS CRAzED
Beautiful Choir Singer of Ravens
wood, Ill.,, Found in Sad
Plight.
ROMANCE OF LOVE MAY
BE AT THE BOTTOM
Brothers Hunt for Man Who
Once Visited Their
Sister.

CHICAGO, July s-Efhe Gruber. one of
the pretuest singers in the choir OF tho
RaVenswood Presbyterian church. left hor
home, S2 Supnyslde avenue, at 10 o'clock
Friday evening. At daybreak yesterday
the girl her oress bedragglcd. her hair
raying unatio was found By her brothers
on the verandl OF her home
At O'Clock In the afternoon she was
taken TO nearby institute for the in
sane; There she spent the night, her
fitful sleep tsaoken with Aocoherent NUT
terings and startled shrleks
Not one word could her mother or broth
ers extract from the girl as TO her rea~
son for quitting her homo late in tho
evening, Not sensible syllable has she
seven hours between 10 o'clock on Fri.
day evening and o'clock yesterday morn
ing.
Escapes Second Time.
Early I'm the forenoon the girl. left for
moment by her mother, again left her
home and IL was hours later that she
was discovered in a vacant Nat at ,02
Montl ose avenue. She had with her q
suit case filled with newly purchased gro
ceaies. and when found by tho jantor
the room was strewn With clothing, pho
tographs and supplies
What are you doing here2" asked the
man.
Cant you see. stupid" she replied,
I'm moving in"
Word OF ner whereabouts WAS hastily
sent her family, and she <vas removed
- - ~ h'i iNlllS anu dll'l " uS " lilS
institution.
on account OF tho desire of the family
TO avoid publicity In the matter, the pv-
lice have not becn notified. but the broth
ers arc doing oil In their power to locate
man named Claude Barclay, who seven
weeks ago left the city for his homo at
relatives of the girl that the man had
some connection with the departure of
Miss Gruber from her home.
During Barclays residence In Chicago
he lived In R1ypnsUnl6 md his atfepfInpo
TO Miss Gruber were pronounced. They
were received with favor by the young
woman. but suddenly, when an announce
ment OF their engagement was expected
daily Barclay disappeared from the city.
He ieft no word for Miss Gruber. and
with his departure the light went out
OF her life. Her former cheerfulness
left her, and she became gloomy and
absent-mindcd. On Friday. ooincldent
with rumor about the locality that
Barclay had beon seen in tho city. she
became more cheerful.
Last evening, after the family had
retired the girl attlrod horself in an
evening gown and left the house Where
she went. whom she met or what hap
pened in tho awful seven hours Of her
absence. is only conjecture,
In the morning she was found on the
Yeranda OF her homo, She was taken
IN and cared for. but early In the fore
S moon she escaped. Again she was
physicians. was placed for temporary
keeping In private asylum.
Her appearance on her return to her
home gave every evidence that she had
been roughly handled. Her evening gown
was torn and muddy, her face was dis
torted, and she was so nervous that the
power of speech seemed TO have taken
temporary leave of her, Sho fell in a
faint In the arms of her mother and
never recovered sufficiently to tell of
the ordeal through which she passed
Every reference to the occurrence
made by tho members Of the family was
a signal for an attack OF hysteria
Mrs. Gruber. the mother Of the girl
was distracted and was herself under
the care of a physician for a portion of
the day.
Says Mind Is Weakened
My daughter has spent a horrible
night in the open," she said. Some
thing dreadful has turned her mind and
her ordeal may never be explained. She
refused to tell me. and she seemed to
have lost several pounds In weight 1
the best morals. and IL is out Of the
question to suppose that she went any
vance a theory. Even II she had wan
dSfed about the streets worrying about
som ebody's fickleness, she would not
have lost her mind and become so Vio-
lent because of that
MY sons will not rest until they find
Barclay as they believe his disappear
ance has something to do with the case.
My daughter sang and played and was
left her She never spoke OF him. and l
am certain she does not want to SEQ
him again, but there Is omething mys
tcrious behind II all 90