Newark man who disappeared from A.C. in June found alive, well - 2004-02-15
A Newark man who suffers from dementia and disappeared from a casino here last summer was found alive and well at a New York City hospital, where he had stayed for the past eight months as an unidentified patient.
Joseph Leggett, 56, and his wife, Margaret, 55, arrived in Atlantic City on June 14 on a bus trip sponsored by their Newark church. While Margaret was redeeming a voucher for quarters inside the Claridge Casino Hotel, her husband vanished from the casino floor.
"I was waiting in line to get the coins and I had him by the hand and then he was gone," she told The Star-Ledger of Newark.
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