The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-11-05
SOUVENIR POST
 CARD ROMANCE BREAKS UP. HOME
Buxom Young Wife Flees from Husband and Two
 Little Children
HUSBAND BLAMES POSTALS
Writer Signing Himself, "Your N. E. Kid" of Syra- cuse, May Be Her Sup posed Affinity.

Mrs. Charles D. Schrader, the bux- om and comedy young wife of a we'll known electrician of the Crane Valve Co.,, is strangely missing from her comfortable home at 530 Gregory street, gone her husband believes to join an affinity discovered in corre- spondence starting through souvenir postal card exchange.
 Schrader reported the absence of his wife at police headquarters today af- ter he had spent the entire night seeking her among relatives and friends. Fearful at first that she might have accomplished suicide, at which she had vaguely hinted several weeks ago, he later became convinced that she had fled to Syracuse, there to meet the author of dozens of pos tals cards and letters bearing the signature of Your N. F. Kid.'
 Mrs. Schrader is only 21, but is the mother of two handsome children, Hazel aged 5, and Benice aged 3. Her husband has been with the Crane Valve Co. several years. With the Schraders live Mrs. Schrader's moth- CT, who is equally convinced~ that her daughters absence is due to infatu- ation for the author of the "Your N. F. Kid" correspondence.
 Mrs. Schrader's habit has been to attend the meetings of the Daughters of America, 1S1 State street each Fri day evening, returning ordinarily not later than 10 o'clock. Last night she spoke of attending the meeting as us- ual Her husband left the house at 6:15 and went to the Republican rally at the Armory. On his return near midnight his mother-in-law surprised him with the information that his wife had not returned.
 He set out for the lodge room, found it dark then. returned to inquire among the neighbors for information. All night he spent looking for his wife among the houses she was ac- customed to visit. He could learn only that she had gone across the street from their home at 6:45 visited the family named Baker, one of whom helped trim her hat, and had kissed all affectionately had left, apparently for the lDdge room. s--------.z-
 Today, Schrader discovered that s7.5o was gone from the house. not all the money within her reach if she had planned to take it, but much more than she was accustomed to carry. But she had taken none of her clothing save what she wore.
 Looking through the correspondence his wife maintained, SchTader discov- cred large number of picture pos- talS bearing the signature Your N. F. Kid'' Several of these were couch ed in terms indicating familiarity of long standing, put were so WOrQeQ as to leave the impression that they had never met. One of the. cards said the author was a bachelor and was glad to learn that she was unmar- ried He suggested that perhaps both might change their views, and ap- parently in response to her corre- spondence wrote that he did not be- lieve in large families. The post cards in most every instance were enclosed in envelopes.
 Mrs. Schrader wore black princess dress and black low shoes. She is described as about feet 5 inches tall. weighing 165 pounds, with red hair and a striking peculiarity of the eyes, one of them blue and the other brown. She took her lodge due book with her.
 Several weeks ago she brought home a bottle of laudanum which her 1aus- band discovered the following day. She confessed that she had contem- plated suicide because of slurring re- marks made at the lodge meeting. He destroyed the contents.
 Schrader inclines to the belief that his wife has eloped,. but says it is possible she may have feared re- currence of illness she had suffer ed. and has ended her life.