Cumberland, Rhode Island, USA (Valley Falls) (Ashton) (Cumberland Hill)
1899 - SERVANT GIRL VANISHES. Apparently Wore Nothing but a Nightrobe and a Picture Hat.

(Special to the World.)
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 5. - Cumberland Hill has a mystery which the town officers and others are trying to unravel. Walter Grant, who has a fine home at Diamond Hill, went to Boston Thursday, and at an intelligence office hired a domestic, who gave her name as Mary Gilhude.

About 9 o'clock at night the girl retired to a room in the attic. A short time afterward the family heard noises which sounded as though some one had tumbled out of bed. Soon all was quiet, but in the morning no girl appeared to the kitchen, and a search of the room showed that nearly all her clothing was there, and that was all. She must have departed with nothing but a night robe and her picture hat.

Grant says it must be a case of somnambulism.

The World
New York, New York
November 6, 1899

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