Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1906-03-28
THROWN INTO
CAB, DRUCC[D
AND ROBBED
Miss Nina V. Brandt. With Sobs
and Tears. Tells Father Her
Pitiful Story.
Rev. John [. Brandt ONen Reward o(
$500 los Arrest pi Nan VINO Robbed
Mo Daughter.

Miss Nina Virginia Brandt was
drugged and robbed In st. Louis be.
fore leaving that city. She cashed =
check for S2SS50 At the Missouri Lin
coin Trust company and Immediately
stepped into the ladies' waiting room
and divided the money and placed
part Of It In each stocking and then
went out on the street corner 10 wait
for car.
Just then cab drove rapidly up to
the curb and man stepped out and
seized her violently and showed her
into the carriage. when she screamed
he struck her over the head and she
knew nothing more until she awoke
and found herself lying on . bed In
an illsmelling room. She thought I'M
mediately Of her money and reached
down to her stockings and found one
roll Of bills missing, but the other
was buried beneath a chamois akin
powder bag and her handkerchief
and had not been found.
Cu@ utO6hcieu Vut vi the IuOm ulu
found herself on Olive street near
Fourteenth, the wickedest district in
the city. She remembers nothing
more connectedly. This Is the story
she told her father on his arrival
last evening, which she withheld from
every one else.
Rev. DR. John L. brandt arrived on
No, 3 last evening In company with
Assistant Circuit Attorney Dan G.
Summers. His first words were How
Is Nina?" when he met Marshal Warl
and he was taken Immediately to the
La Pension.
On entering his daughters room she
ran to him and wept on his shoulderss
and told her pitiful story. She was
pleased to see him and willing to ac-
company him but did not desire to 20
back to St. Louis. at least not at
She told him that she did not re-
member Of purchasing mourning or
OF buying q ticket. and she did not
know where she was going. Her only
desire was to escape a. she was
possessed with the strange Illusion
that she had thousands and thousands
Of dollars which she was to give 20
some one and others were after her
to take away the money.
She says she forgot her home. the
names Of the members Of the fami-
" and at Kansas City she did not
even know her own name.
She has no remembrance Of what
became Of her original ticket. but NY
that she heard several fellow passen-
gers speak Of San Diego and decided
that that was her destination ana
bought another ticket tor that point.
She remembers nothing Of plans 70
30 to Japan although she had Con-
ductor Lawrence to wire to San Fran
cisco for berth and he secured for
her frst class passage on the Cor
sair. sailing from Frisco on Wednes-
day.
She recognized the man who robbed
her and declares that she would recog-
nise his face among q million.
She does not know his name, but ut
different times, when with compan.
Ions. she he'd pointed him out q
man she hated because he had follow
cd her. She also recognized the cab
man.
Mr.. Brandt has offered a reward OF
$500 for the arrest Of the man who
robbed bis daughter, and says he will
search every foot Of st. Louis In his
efforts to bring the man to Justice.
Since his arrival here he has re-
reived several kilograms from St.Lou.
Is. stating that several members or
his congregation had passed Miss
Brandt on Olive street, but she seem
ed In q hurry and they did not stop
her.
Mr.. Brandt says that he believes his
story implicitly without cor
rOborati0n and states that there was
absolutely no reason for the girl Ieav.
Ing home II she had not been tempo.
rarily crazed by blows and fright.
DR.. Brandt and daughter and Dan.
9. Summers left this morning on No.
for some suburban point near st.
Louis. where they viii be Joined by
Mrs. Brandt. The father and attor.
ney will return to g. Louis ana the
ladies' win go TO indianapolis. where
hey will spend several weeks until
Miss Brandt regains her strength,
They were very profuse in their
hanks for the care and treatment