The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-01-22
FORTUNE TELLER
LURED AMERICAN
Mrs. Mansfield, Wife Of Columbia
University Professor Was Drug
sed and Robbed In
Venice.
FOUND IN THE STREETS
is Just Coming Out Of Her Daze and
Unable to Give Many
Details Of the Ad-
venture.

UNITED Press Leased Wire Service.1 I
VENICE, jan 22.-An unidentified
French fortune teller was blamed by
Mrs. William Mansfield for her condi-
ton, when the American woman, who
was mysteriously missing for several
days, today rallied for a. short time
from the semi-coma In which she had
lain in a Venice hospital ever since
she was picked up, dazed. in the
street.
Mrs. Mansfield told the police dur
ing her lucid interval that she met
the clairyvoiant and the woman sup
posed to be his wife while in Rome.
They induced her to come to Venice.
she said, and then drugged and rob-
bed her. She could supply few de-
tails, but the police at once set a
city-wide dragnet for the alleged
| fieecers.
In the meantime Mrs. Mansfield Is
under the protection Of United States
Consul Long.
Mrs. Mansfield, who Is the wife OF
professor in Columbia University,
today was still in a dazed condition,
and physicians were uncertain wheth-
er she had suffered loss Of memory.
| but said they thought che would soon
i be normal.
i The police and physicians, who
1 have been In attendance on Mrs.
| Mansfield ever since she was found
semi-conscious in the streets. but
4 who did not know her identity until
yesterday, refused to allow visitors to
see the woman and declared that she
would not be questioned until she
was fully recovered. Both doctors
and police were convinced that Mrs.
Mansfield had been victim OF foul
i play.
At the hospital where the Identity
I. OF Mrs Mansfield first was learned
lit was said that she came to Venice
two weeks ago and stopped in ) q
boarding house. A police alarm By
the proprietor started the search fol
:. the woman.
Husband Does Not Believe.
NEW YORK, Jan. %. Professor
. William Mansfield, Of Columbia Uni
= versity professed to believe today that
!, there was no truth in the storie:
cabled from italy regarding the mys
terious disappearance Of his wife, a
first believed to have been kidnapped
for ransom by brigands. and late
: found In dazed condition in thu
I: streets of Venice.
d "The very fact tnat none Of th'
/ stories agree convinces me that the,
r are unreliable" said Mansfield. Il
a was said that Mrs. Mansfield was OF
nervous temperament. That Is abse
S lutely not so. Now as matter OF fac'
a if anything was the matter with Mrs
ID Mansfield ! would be the first perso
d. that she would communicate Will
j. She is an experienced traveller, an
ie the very fact that she has sent me n
"a word makes me believe that there
nothing in the story at all.
i "Mrs. Mansfield has been travelin
= securing material for her literar
:. - work, and she has no fixed plans.
s. think the only thing that happene
:, - was that she left her boarding hous
:. and failed to leave a forwarding a
:. dress: that the proprietor becan
e &. anxious and started an inauir
), which the newspapers have delibe
- !. ately distorted. will not believe
= aaIword OF the story and will make I
: attempt to investigate It,"
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