The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-06-05
LOST AND FOUND GIRL
STARTS VAIN QUEST
Remembers Name Is Helen
Morgan" in Bellevue
Vanishes in Taxi.
ADDRESS GIVEN VACANT
No "Morgans" at 15i w. 5ith
st. and q Score Of "Morgans"
Disclaim Her.

A pretty. well dressed young woman
about n years old. who gave the name
Helen Morgan" lost herself yesterday
morning. She found herself later in Belle.
vue Hospital. Then she disappeared again
The police and the authorities OF Bellevue
refused to be worried. but a frultlcss
search for her ensued that left In its trail
score Of denials from Morgan" families.
The young woman first appeared 10
policeman OF the East Sixty-seventh street
station at Park avenue and Seventy-fr-,
street about 6 o'clock yesterday morning
In the pouring rain she was wandering
aimlessly. gazing about In a distracted
fashion and muttering to herself. when
the officer asked her where she was going
she ceased her muttering and replied:
SISTER Mary Francis has been taken
away from me. She has been transferred"
She did not remember her name or hcr
address or anything. apparently, except
that one remark which meant nothing to
the policeman. lie took her to the
station house. where further questioning
avail.d nothing, and then called an ambu-
lance. Or. Bergen OF the Flower Hos
pital decided the observation ward al
Bellevue was the best solution to the
mystery anu the Nv
that direction.
BY the time the young woman reached
the hospital, however. she recovered sufl-
ciently to say that her name was Helen
Morgan of l54 West Fifty-fourth street
The doctors were convinced that II was
simply n case OF temporary lapse OF
memory and the girl left the institution
without even being entered on the card
index. She called a taxi and was driven
away. Then began the search and the
denials.
The house at the Fifty-fourth street ad-
dress was found to be vacant II had
been so for some time. Several families
Of Morgans in the nelghborhood were
asked about the girl, but no one seemed TO
know Helen. She was not a girl to be
passed unnoticed. for the police and the
hospital authorities said she was very
pretty. well dressed and apparently had
come frsm a family OF wealth and refine
ment.
She wore dark green tailored suit. .
white dotted net lace waist, fastened NJ
the neck with diamond and sapphire
PIN back straw hat with black
aigrettes, black patent leather pumps and
black silk stockings She carried a silk
MORE bag containing III cents and n silk
handkerchief with the embroidered mi
tials III. v. NJ" She was about 81 years
old, 6 feet inches tall weighed about
i40 pounds and had light brown hair
blue eyes and n clear. rosy bloom TO her
| cheeks.
Directories were secured for "Helen
Morgans" and other Morgans on the East
and West Side and converts and religious
schools were asked about the name. A
"Sister Mary Francis was located at one
convent school. but she knew no Helen
| Morgan. That name was found In one
| directory at 333 West Elghty-fourth
I street. but the house at that address was
vacant
The best clue seemed to he n Helen
| Morgan" at 1876 East Sixty-sixth street,
| but inquiry there brought out the fact
| that Miss Morgan had been married re
Gently to DR.. Lawrence i. Rayhsford, 81
1884 Lexington avenue. He and his wife
| convinced the inquirer, however. that the
former Miss Morgan was not the lost and
found stranger.