The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1922-10-19
ALBANY GIRL, LONG
MISSING, LOCATED
Lorraine SCHNEIDER'S DISAP-
PEARANCE FROM ANDREWS
HOTEL EXPLAINED
WAS ATTACKED In ROOM.
CLAIMS SHE FLED AFTER SHE.
THOUGHT SHE HAD COMMIT
TED MURDER

Lorraine Schneider, % year old
country school teacher who vanished
from Minneapolis as the flame goes
out on candle, and whose mysteri-
GUS fate baffled police and private de-
tectives in the most startling and
absolute disappearance ever recorded
in the northwest, is alive and has
written to her parents, says the Min
neapolis Sunday Journal.
Her father and mother admitted to
The Journal last night that she is
in a convent, that they have received
a letter from her and that she will
come home again, possibly within a
month" ..a..s.
Lorraine disappeared from a room
in the Andrews hotel last March.
When relatives came to the hotel,
they found her purse, coat she had
bought for her sister, and potted
plant, intended as gift for her moth
er. Lorraine was gone. She never.
came back. c. -
In their farm home near Albany,
Mimi, last night, Mr.. and Mrs. Anton
Schneider, who gave up their search
for their missing daughter in Mime.
apolis nearly seven months ago and
left the city, convinced. that she had
been abducted and murdered, told how
a letter from a friend ain a southern
city" revealed that Lorraine was still
alive.
5 "a friend saw her and wrote to
u.s." Mr. Schneider said. "We knew
she was alive and safe. But people
are too willing to talk. We did not
wish to say anything"
The Schneider family admitted, too,
that Lorraine had written them letter
only one.
"She is in a convent" they said.
No, not in Minnesota. In south
ern state. Yes, she can come home
any time she wants to-"
Mr.. and Mrs. Schneider denied that
they had written to their daughter af-
ter they learned that she was alive,
or even after they received her letter
to them. ~. ...
Lorraine, pretty, vivacious, came to
Minneapolis last March from Avon, a
little town in Stearns county where
she taught school. She was on a
trip, with money in her
purse, and plans for purchasing
clothes for herself and gifts for her
family. On March II she registered
at the Andrews hotel. That was Sat-
urday. She was to return to her
school at Avon on Monday.
She did not return. Between Sat-
urday and Monday she dropped out Of
sight, vanishing as utterly as if she
had been snatched out of existence.
1T was not until March 81 that her
parents learned she had not returned
to her school at Avon. They came to
Private detectives, po-
lice and friends started on search
for the missing girl without a slight
est clue to guide them. Lorraine had
left her room early Sunday afternoon.
She had intended to return, for she
had left her purse, coat she had
purchased for her sister and potted
plant bought as a gift for her mother.
There was conclusive evidence that
she had intended to return home; she
had sent to Avon $700 fur coat;
purchased in Minneapolis.
Baffled at every turn, detectives and
relatives discarded every theory ex-
cept that the girl had been lured away
from the hotel or forcibly abducted
somewhere in Minneapolis, and per-
haps killed for her money by persons
who saw her making expensive pur-
chases.
Last night her parents still insisted
that their daughter did not leave vol
unfairly. She was abducted, they de-
clared. But they refused to say
whether they believed man or "a
woman accompanied her from : ilel
room. -. -
Lorraine was innocent of any
wrong" her father said. f'We know
she was forced to leave the hotel, am
that it was several days later that shs
was able to get away from her alb
ductors."
"She has been in convent" wa.
all they had to say.
The revelation that the missing vii
lage girl, whose disappearance hao
gone down on police records as the
most battling case ever known in the
northwest, followed a search that
covered almost the entire continent
international detective agencies and
the police of every important city in
the country had worked in vain on the