Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1915 — Lafayette Woman Found Dazed After Long Hunt. [ARTICLE]

Lafayette Woman Found Dazed After Long Hunt.

Lafayette, Ind., May I.—After being missed from —the homo oflrcr mother, Mrs. Margaret Werkhoff, for more than thirty’ hours, Mrs. John J. Charfen was found today roaming in a dazed condition at Buck Creek, twelve miles east of Lafayette. It was thought by her relatives that she had jumped into the Wabash river to end herdifeand the Lafayette police force and several private detectives were engaged in the search for th'e missing woman. Mrs. Charten is the wife of a Monon trainman and had been taking treatment in Chicago for a nervous disease. Thursday night, without notifying her husband, she left their rooming house in Chicago and came to the home of her mother here. She walked more than fifteen miles after disappearing from her mother’s home and is now in a critical condition at a local hospital. She can not explain why she left her home.