New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-07-24
MISSING NURSE SEEN
HERE ON MONDAY
Mount Vernon Neighbor Saw
Miss Snodgrass Walking
on 23d Street.
GIRLS BROTHER IN SEARCH
Relatives Fear That She May
Have Become Mentally
Unbalanced and Have
Wandered Away.

Do-cas Ijams SnodgTass, the nurse in
the Mount Vernon Hospital who disap-
peared from her sisters home on Wal
lace avenue on Wednesday morning and
has not been heard from since, was said
10 have been seen walking along I'D
street. New York on Monday afternoon.
Although neither her family nor her
friends have the slightest idea what
could have happened TO her they are not
willing to accept the theory that harm
has befallen her. They all seem 10 think
that she lost contro! Of her mind and
wandered away somewhere.
Until IL was reported that she was seen
on sd street the police OF Mount Vernon
and New York had been working on the
clew that she was last seen IN the Grand
day. She was then on her way TO New
York shoe shop and department store.
Since then not a word had been heard OF
her.
Her sister, Mrs. Mary Order, with whom
she lived, said yesterday afternoon that
Dorcas must have lost her mind She
would not believe that her sister had
eloped with any man or that she had
suffered any accident.
'Dorcas," she said, was a very I'M
pulsive girl. She would decide 20 do
thing on the spur Of the moment and then
do t. She wasn't frivolous. but she was
a girl Of Moods once. without any warn
ing, she decided that che would be a
steuographer. she secured a position In
the Office Of friend, but she worked for
only one day. Then later she decided that
she would be nurse. We all jollied her
Bit and wondered just how long nurs-
ing would appeal 10 her. She secured the
position In the hospital, however. and Ola
her work most faithfully"
On Monday morning Mrs. George E.
Gibson, whose husband Is an electrical
contractor. took her maid TO New York
70 DO some shopping. They were walking
along I'd street toward Fifth avenue on
the south side when suddenly the maid
tapped her elbow. why, there's a Mount
Vernon girl said the maid
Mrs. Gibson was Just able 70 see Young
woman passing by. She did not recognize
who she was, but the maid did. The
maid. Phoebe Cummings, said that she
was positive that the young woman she
saw was Miss Snodgrass. She declared
that she did not know that Dorcas was
missing from her home until she reached
Mount Vernon. where she read the news
In the local paper. She told Lieutenant
SiIyerstein, OF ths local police, that the
hour when she saw Miss Snodgrass was
about $40 p. m. Dorcas wore large
black hat. with a pompon, white waist
"a tan skirt and black shoes. She carried
a bundle.
E. Edgar Schmidt, who runs = little
electrical contracting store at No. IS
Depot Place. Mount Vernon. and 10 whom
Miss snodgrass was engaged 20 be mar
ricd. spent most OF yesterday In New
York tracking down clews. He. Ike Mrs.
Crider. refuses to believe that any serious
harm has befallen his hancee. lie scorncd
the idea that Dorcas had run away with
Or. Norman Smith. the house surgeon IN
the Mount Vernon Hospital. However.
he secured a passenger list from the
Hamburg American Line and found ont
that Or. Smith had sailed alone. sec
ond class, on tho President Lincoln on
Thursday morning. DT. Smith had lett
the hospital on Tuesday morning and had
Joined his sister somewhere In Brooklyn.
Schmidt said that he knew that Dorcas
was inpulsive, but would never believe
that she would leave him without telling
him where she was going.
". T. Snodgrass, TIE missing girls
brother, has come on from Martinsburg,
W. Va, 10 aid in the search.