The sun., 1912-07-19
GERALDINE W|NGATE IS
AMONG MISSING AGAIN
This Time an Asbury Park
Boniface Is Looking for
the "Suffragist."
ALSO A STENOGRAPHER
New York Boarding House
Keeper Once Mourned Her
Sudden Departure.

Geraldine Wingate. who is the editor OF
the Historical 'Suffragist Magazine. q
publication which has not yet appeared
and who is anxiously sought by a trust
ing boarding house keeper In New
York, has suddenly cut short her stay
in this city.
She left her belongings in a hotel at
109 Third avenue and three weeks
board bill at the same place. She also
forgot to pay Miss Amy Hickman for
two weeks work as stenographer. She
also forgot several addresses which she
gave before she went. because when the
addresses were investigated the persons
said to live there couldn't be found
Miss Wlngate arrived here three
weeks ago last Monday. At the end Of
her first week she explained to the pro-
prietor that she had check from the
Suffrage Literary Society in New York
for SIS and had sent 1t to a friend in
Manhattan to get It cashed. So the
proprietor let her stay another week.
Then Miss Wingate explained that she
! was about TO leave for New York to
get the money herself. But the propri-
etor thought she had better try to find
a friend in Asbury Park. and called
| in a detective to help her.
After five hours vain search she was
taken before Justice Borden. He Ques-
toned her and said he would let her go
II she would pay her bill on Tuesday.
Miss Wingate said that would be salts
| factory to her. She has not been seen
since.
The young woman attracted consid-
cradle attention here because OF her
charming manners and her devotion to
| the cause Of woman suffrage. She spent
much of her time sewing dresses In
her room and stated that she had to do
| il to economize. The gowns in which she
made her public appearances cost 30
much money that she had TO do her
own sewing to make up for what she
| laid out on them.
She also conflded to a detective that
her mother was wealthy woman in
Beechhurst. l.. J.. but she did not wish
to disturb her because of n mere trifie
like board bill. She also said her
father left her a legacy. but that it
was all spent in acquiring her educa-
ton.
Miss Wingate was to lecture on Mon
day uight in Library Hall. permission to
use the building having been granted
to Miss Elizabeth Chalmadge Of 500
Third avenue. No Miss Chalmadge lives
| there or ever has. according to the
people who do live there.
While here the young woman has
been busy turning out play about
woman suffrage which was to he pro-
duced by some suffrage society In New
York. She also wrote few short stories
and turned or piece about an Ocean
avenue resort. II was for this work
that Miss Hickman says she was en-
gagged. When she called at the Ocean
avenue place to get her money she
was told that Miss WinEate had gone
to her mothers home in Allenhurst
The address was not known.
Just before she arrived in Asbury
Park Miss Wingate left the boarding
house at AZ West Fifty-second street
In this city and explained in a postal
card that she was on her way to Balti-
more and would be back in a few days
She didn't come back, but /; check for
$50 was received. 1t was made out to
Alice +. Lane"
This same name appeared on a check
for 5000 which Miss Wingate gave to
Mearson Silver. printers at As West
Thirty-fourth street. for getting out
programmes for entertainments and
stock certificates for the Historical SUI
frd0ist MdOdsinc. The check was on
the Corn Exchange National Bank OF
Chicago, but Chicago had been scratched
out and New York written in its place.
The check came back marked "irregu-
lar"
On February "a last a Miss Geraldine
Wingate. who said she lived in New
York. was arraigned In Judge Scully's
court In Chicago ON a charge of passing
bad checks.
She said she went to Chicago to found
the Authors Club and that Mrs. l.. j.
Sanborn OF Boston. who was financing
the project. had given her checks to nj
out at her discretion. An illustrator
whom Miss Wingate engaged to deco
rate her novel "The Lost Couple" testi-
fled that he got check for $50 from
her and that II came back from the
bank. When asked why she tried to
pass bad checks Miss Wingate's plea
was that she sought she was doing the
right thing In the right way