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Show RICH NEW YORK WIDOW DISAPPEARS; PURSE IS FOUND ON FERRYBOAT NEW YORK, April SO. The finding of a pocketbook. apparently the property of Mrs. Augusta H. Lynde, who disappeared Tuesday, was reported to the police po-lice today by an Erie railroad ferry official. He said the purse was picked up Tuesday evening on an Erie ferry and it contained a card which had Mrs. Lynde's name on it - Mrs. Lynde is a wealthy widow, 68 years old. Her husband was Charles R. Lynde and Joseph W.- Harper, one of the founders of Harper & Brothers, was her father. She lived in an apartment house in West Fifty-sixth street, this city. She left, her apartments Tuesday evening to go to dinner and later in the evening she, was seen on a ferryboat which ' took her to Jersey City. She returned re-turned on the same boat and when she reached New York disappeared. It was on the deck of this ferryboat the pocketbook was found. Her relatives say she was in good "health" and bad little money with her and they are unable to account ac-count for her disappearance. . ; i ' ' '" ' ' i . , , " ' |