The Mankato free press., 1922-10-20
SLIPS FROM HOTEL
LEAVES MILL CITY
Lorraine Schneider Is Now
Living In South
--IE ga.
MEETING OF SISTERS
Believing She Had Killed Man
Who Attacked Her In Room,
Young Lady Disappeared
(Associated Press Dispatch. ]

lASSOCldleU 1reSS DlSpaICn.l
Minneapolis, October 1S.-Bciief
that she had killed a man WHO had
attempted to attack iler was respon-
sible fo.' the disappearance of Lor-
raine Schneider, twenty, three years
old Avon school teacher, who drop
ped out OF sight here last March. ac-
cording 10 statement given Mime.
apolis detectives today by her sis
ter, Emily Schneider.
The attack, according 20 the miss.
ing girls sister, occurred in Lor.
raine's room at hotel here, and in
the struggle that followed she struck
the man over the head with a vase
and fed in terror when he fell to the
floor apparently lifeless.
Z Left Minneapolis On Train. -
Stealing from the hotel she hu--
ried to the Great Northern station
She took the first train out of Min
neapolis-it happened to be train
to Denver, according to the story.
For seven months Lorraine Schnei-
der has been living in Denver, work
ingA as cashier in motion picture
theatre, while detectives for whose
hire her father has spent fortune,
hunted for her from coast to coast,
from Mexico % Canada.
For days after she found retreat
in convent in Denver, using the
name Ethel Carrew," she lived in
terror going over again and again in,
her imagination that scene in the
room at the Andrews hotel.
No Mentiop Of Man.
Eventually newspaper stories of
her disappearance came to her at,
tention. There was no mention OF
the man. She knew then that she
had not killed him. /.
But her relief was soon swallowed
UP in horror at the newspaper pub
licity that followed her disappear
ance. She was frightened and
ashamed, her sister says. She dar-
ed not return home.
Struggling along to make ends
meet, she lived on in Denver, work
ing as cashier in a motion picture
theatre Last August, she wrote her
family and her sister. Emily. went to
Denver.
Lorraine is not in Denver now, he-
sister says. She is living some
where in the south" And she will
come home when all this newspa-
pc: notoriety has died down.
Was Crazy With Fright.
AFTER the struggle in the room at
the Andrews hotel, my sister was
crazy with fright" Miss Schneider
said. "Her one thought was to get
away so far that nobody would ever
find her,
"She went down to the Great Nor
them station and bought ticket to
Denver. She went first to the St.
Rose convent in Denver and stayed
there several days, living in constant
fear of detectives.
"Then stories began to appear In
the Denver papers about her disap-
pearance. There was no mention of
the man. She realized then that she
couldn't have killed him but after
all the newspaper notoriety-well,
you can't blame her for not wanting
to come home can you? -.
"She left the convent and went to
the Agrie hotel in Denver. Her mon-
ey was giving out then and she
knew she must find something to do
right away. ...-.
Worked In Hotel.
"She read in a newspaper that
they were giving a teachers exam
ination at Greely, near Denver. She
went out there but when she found
out that she would have to give he-
right name she was afraid. So she
went back to Denyer, registered
again at the Agrie hotel at Ethel
Carrew, and } finally got job as
cashier in a motion picture theatre.
"She was working there and liv:
ing at the hotel when my father and
mother heard from her August !.
She wrote that she was we'll" ami
that We were not to worry about her
but of course we did.
80 went out 70 Denver AND sai
her there. Then she told me the
whole story. After ] saw her We.
made UP our minds at honie not to
say anything. We had had al the
newspaper .noto:iety VIC wanted. We
hoped that this fuss would all die
down and thlt some day it would be
forgotten so Lorraine could come
home"
Lorraine Schneider disappeared
from her room at the. Andrews ho-
tel on Sunday, March 19, 1922, with
in thirty six hours after she had ceg-
s.torad "a }ho Enfpl