The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1913-01-03
GIRL LEAVES HOSPITAL
BUT She LEFT NO ClFW
From Thursdays Daily.


What is considered most my.
tcrions disappearance which has no
yet become very generally known
forms a topic for conversation an
wonder at st. Alexanders hOspita
in New Ulm, this week youni
woman patient who had been at tn
hospital some two weeks, disap
peared, leaving no more trace thai
if the earth had opened and swal
lowed her where she stood. Diligen
search by the hospital authorities
friends and relatives of the girl ant
the New Ulm police has failed thus
far TO reveal any clue to her where
abOuts and all are at loss Il
know where 10 look next
The young woman is Miss An
gusta Jennings of Morgan. She has
been at the hospital taking treat
monts for melancholia. The nurse;
and attendants could scarcely be
lieye she had any serious mental
trouble because of her kindly. friend
ly disposition and because she was
apparently rational on all matters
She complained at times of being
worried and afraid that some harm
was coming TO her.
Wanted to Remain at Hospital.
She had several times asked the
nurses if ii could not be arranged
that she could stay at the hospital
and work because she felt SO Sc
cure and because she liked the sur
rOundings. The morning of the day
she disappeared she had told the
sisters that she wished to write to
her brother, Henry Jennings of
Morgan, 10 come before Christmas
and make arrangements that she
might remain at the hospital indefi-
nitely, and a letter written by her
10 4 niece on December s was
found after her disappearance in
which she also spoke of how pleas.
ant she found it at the hospital
ana her desire TO remain there. The
sisters TO please her had promised
10 try to arrange the matter and
Miss Jennings was particularly
bright and cheerful the morning OF
the day she disappeared-and this
makes the mystery harder to solve
than if She had exhibited signs of
dissatisfaction or extreme melan-
ChOlia.
Called BY Mothers Illness.
Miss Jennings had been under the
special care OF Miss Helga BoIstad
while at the hospital, but on, Wed.
nesday evening Miss Bolstad was
called home by her mothers illness
and it was not thought necessary
10 watch Miss Jennings closely.
She had been allowed to walk on
the hillside TO get an airing at
different times and last Thursday
afternoon at about two o'clock she
was seen TO come in from a walk
and then TO pass out again. She
walked up and down the hill. No
one has been found who noticed her
acting at all suspiciously or speak.
ing To any one, but at four o'clock
il was found that she had utterly
disappeared. Search was made and
she had walked to the chapel and
back but no other signs were to be
SccH.
Relatives Were Notified.
Theodore Johnson, whose family
is related by marriage to the girl.
was communicated with and he and
j. p Graft made an immediate
search through Milford for five
different routes, but found no one
who had seen her. The relatives
We're communicated with, but no
one of them had heard from her up
TO Saturday evening. The local
police, Sheriff Julius and Chief
Klause were asked to make a
search They went over every foot
of ground and woods in the vicinityj
of the hospital and found absolutely
nothing TO enlighten them. The
river banks have not yet been
searched, although some fear thei
patient may have attempted to COM
init suicide, as she had evidenced
suicidal tendencies before being
brought TO the hospital. Inquiry was
made at the local railway stations
but no one remembers having seen
her.
May Have Gone to Cities.
1t is thought that possibly Miss
Jennings may have gone to the,
cities. She had some SIS in money
with her, ii is believed, as her sis
tiers who visited her recently gavel
her that amount and it can .notj
be located among her clothing at
the hospital. Nothing else that she
was known to possess is missing
except the garments she wore at i
the time. She had on black skirt
and a black and white dressing
sacque under a black coat. Over her
head she wore a white wool fasci-
nator She far as known she hadi
no other wraps
Miss Jennings is about thirty
years old, OF medium height and
slender build, weighing probably
10 to lis pounds. She is light
compleXioned with rosy cheeks and
her face is thin and rather long.
Her hair is described as being al
reddish color and very long. coming
below her knees when unbound. |
She wears it in two braids wound
about the head and it forms a very
noticeable characteristic. She speaksi
both English and German and as,
she is well acquainted here it was.
at first thought she might have
gone to call on some one in town. |
She used TO work here in different
families at various times. Her par.
ents are both dead but il any one |
has any information concerning her,
whereabouts it will be thankfully
received by her sisters or brother,
or the hospital people.
Fairmont, December 26.-Stranded
in "a. strange country, disappointed
in the man whom she trusted, and
over three thousand miles from!
home without friends and surround. |