OCR Text |
Show missing my CINDT BE EOMQ Salt Lake, July 31. In the "Book of Missing Persons" at police headquarters head-quarters was written yesterday the name of Miss Nellie Rogers, of 849 Fayette street, this city, disclosing one of the strangest cases o disappearance disap-pearance In recent police annals. Miss Rogers simply walked out of Bight Thursday afternoon and hasn't been heard from since by her friends and relatives. The girl, who is 20 years of age, is said by her Bister, Evldlne Rogers, to have been laboring under a heavy mental strain, which is believed to have caused a temporary aberration of her mind. The police have circulated descriptions descrip-tions broadcast throughout the city and rooming houses and other places where tho girl might have wandered have been searched, but to no avail. The theory that the girl might havo committed suicide Is scouted by the police as well as members of her family. Miss Rogers is a talented young woman of good education. She has spent tho five years last past with her father at Riverside, Cal., and only returned to her home here a month ago. Since her return she has .appeared .ap-peared to bo suffering from melancholia melan-cholia and brooded continually. She has been under the care of a local physician, at her home. Recently, that is within the laBt week, she has objected to treatment and members of the family say that this might have proraptod her to leave her home. So far as known to the girl's mother moth-er she has no friends to whom she might go. When 8he1eft her homo Thursday evening she is known to have had several dollars, and with this she might havo purchased a railroad rail-road ticket to some neighboring town. Police officials and shorlffs in adjoining counties havo been furnished furnish-ed a description of the young woman and are keeping a close lookout for her. When last seen by her mother she was wearing a white shirtwaist, a dark skirt and a sailor straw hat She Is 20 years of ago, weighs 115 pounds and is G feet 6 inches in height. She has dark hair and dark eyes. no |