PUZZLED THEM FOR HOURS.
Mary Costello, Mayor Crittenden’s
Stenographer, Could Not Tell
Physicians Her Name.
MARY COSTELLO,
Who Couldn't Remember Her Name.
A stylishly dressed young woman startled the attendants of the University hospital about 1:30 o’clock yesterday afternoon when she walked into the reception room and calmly said:
“Please tell me my name.”
A nurse, upon hearing the odd request, looked closely at the young woman and noticed a peculiar expression in her eyes. The attendants sent her to the emergency hospital, where Dr. H. L. Hess and Dr. F. R. Berry questioned her. To every question the girl returned one monotonous answer:
“I wish I knew my name.”
It was nearly 7 o’clock before the girl’s mind began to become partially clear and she answered several questions in a rational manner. A gold hat pin which Dr. Hess held out for her inspection seemed to revive a chain of thought.
“Why, a Mrs. Crittenden gave that to me,” she said.
The clue was sufficient for the physician, who called up the mayor’s home. Mrs. Crittenden was asked if she had ever given a hat pin to a young woman.
“I remember giving one to Mary Costello, Mr. Crittenden’s stenographer,” she replied.
The girl looked up in amazement when her name was called.
“Why, that’s my name!” she exclaimed. “How did you know?”
When William P. Costello, her uncle, was notified he took Miss Costello home. The girl, who is 19 years old, left Mr. Crittenden’s real estate office in the Sheldley building last Monday, as she had been taken ill with the grippe. While the family was at lunch yesterday noon she slipped out of the home at 1410 Belleview avenue and her relatives supposed that she had felt well enough to visit friends. The physicians say her present mental condition is only temporary.
