New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-06-02
WOMAN WITH SUICIDAL
MANIA FLEES ASYLUM
miss Cloves" Said To Be
Daughter Of New Yorker. May
Have Secured Outside Aid.
CHALONER CASE RECALLED
However, Lakes Are Dragged
and Thorough Search Is Made
for Missing Patient, Five
Years in Bloomingdale.

Although they searched all Friday
night and Yesterday. attendants at the
rIoomingdale Asylum. at White Plains,
we're unable to get any trace of Miss
Agnes Cloves, a patient who escaped
from the asylum grounds on Friday
afternoon. She was walking with a
n,rse in the extensive park that sur
rounds the asylum. and managed to get
avav while her attendants attention
was attracted in another direction.
general alarm was issued at once,
oc Miss Cloves has suffered from sui
cidal mania and il was feared she might
end her life. Attendants were sent out
In aU directions. some on foot, others in
carriages and automobiles. but no trace
Of her could be found.
Or William L. Russell, superintendent
IF the asylum, said last night that he
had not lost hope of recovering Miss
Cloves and that he thought the chances
Of finding her alive were good. She had
heen In Bloomingdale five years, and
II had been the custom to allow her
n walk around the grounds attended by
nurse Although DR.. Russell declined
Ia say who the parents Of Miss Cloves
mere. he did say her father was wealthy
and lived q the upper West Side in
Manhattan He is a very old man"
said Or. Russell and l don't think 1t
would be right to disturb him
No one answering to DR. Russelrs de-
.cr,ptjon of Miss Clowes's father could
nc found last night. and it was thought
that the name Of the escaped patient
might have been altered by the asylum
authorities to protect her family from
ANNOYANCE incidental 10 the search.
ON Friday afternoon, following the
usual custom. Miss Cloves. with her at
tendant. was exercising in the Blooming
dale grounds. and when the nurse had
walked on. thinking her charge was close
behind. Miss Cloves slipped through the
shrubherv and disappeared. The marks
she made in the grass left a trail for a
short distance. but this was soon lost. A
theory was advanced, founded on some
of the happenings since Miss Cloves has
been in the asylum. that she had assist
ancc from the outside. and that she
made her way TO Mamaroneck avenue
and was driven away.
The fact that she has disappeared so
completely gave added ground for this
theory. although T. was admitted she
might have made her way from the vii
age on the trolley line that passes the
grounds and runs into Mamaroneck.
This escape and complete disappearance
recalled similar escape made by John
Armstrong Chanler. who eluded his at
tendant. left the grounds, made his way
~ MamaroneCk on trolley car. and was
not heard Of again until he was found in
Europe enjoying life.
Miss Cloves is forty five years old
and 2 blonde She wore q blue skirt.
black ties white shirtTaist and blue
veil when last seen. She had no hat or
coat. Because Of the form Of delusion
from which she suffered. not only were
the woods examined thoroughly last
night, but searching parties went all
slons the various streams Of water and
lakes in the vicinity.
The lake on the asylum grounds was
dragged. as were the lakes on the coun-
try estates Of several New Workers
near by.
Joseph Maloney. who has charge of
the Bloomngdale farm, o part of the
institution. thought he had found Miss
Cloves early yesterday. Mr.. Maloney is
fair fat and over forty When the gen
oral alarm went forth he hitched up
rig and went out seuthing with the
other employees Of the big institution.
He saw woman answering the de-
scription Of Miss Cloves who was pick
ing flowers on the Willetts property
which adioins the Bloomingdale estate
Without further ado Mr.. Maloney lifted
her bodily. put her in his wagon and
drove To the institution. only TO be
greeted with roars OF laughter.
Then followed apologies from the
superintendent and the medical staff for
tho woman had been terrified by what
she thought was an attempt TO kidnap
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