The morning news., 1888-11-26

hair, tall and slender, brown dress, dark
Jersey jacket, black Alpine hatn \A
The sergeant finds nothing on. his book
that will lead to the discovery of this girl,
and so tells the mother, who goes out with
trem bling step.
ut wouldn't be hard to find that girl, ~
says the sergeant grimly TO the writer, "b1t
she's lost anyway, and it will be just as well
for her mother if she never sees ner again.
This is a blarsted bad world anyhow" saws
the sergeant, as he shuts his book with a
slam that can say nothing but means good
deal
And so the work of the grim sergeant goes
on.
The last scene described is one that is fire.
quently witnessed at police headquarters.
In fact babies and young girls are the
most numerous Of those who are reported
missing. OF the children nearly all are
found that are reported missing. But of
the lost children picked up in the streets of
New York many go to the almshouse or
Biackwells island. OF the young girls who
are reported missing, a majority go too to
slack ellis island, but under different cir
clInstaacsS
Many of the persons missing turn up at
the morgue, and in q majority of cases their
bodies are not identified. There is a pecu-
lar eddy on the Brooklyn side OF the East
river just below the navy yard wall. Here
lie tides meet and the body of a mau
drowned at ten miles on either side of IT'S
point viii eventually come to the surface
Gere. Boats prowl around here night and
day waiting for bodies, and usually they
are taken to the New York morgue. But
they are rarely identified. 1t is on record
that g Grand Master Mason of high degree
is among those who have been missing" :"
He buried in Potter's Field, and al
though this much was ascersained after
long Investigation, it is still uncertain as to
wbsther or not IL Was the bones Of the
Grand Master that were rescued from Pot
terS Field.
Bat the police of New York can not be
accused Of being careless III the mqtter of
looking after persons reported missing. 1t
is not easy TO find persons who, for some
reason, want to keep out of TIE way. Inspec-
tor Byrnes knows this, and since tue Begin
ning OF the Whitechapel murders the Lon
don police, Scotland yard and all, have been
Obliged to sdmit it.
Tie New y ork police, through the bureau
described, work about as intelliyently as it is
possible to- Wherever it is possible to get
photographs of missing pers ms they are
held and by their means many persons have
been found in the morgue on in some city
i.sttution
It was but few weeks ago that woman
came hunting for a missing husband. She
found him through the efforts of Tie police.
When she found him he was living very
comfortably with another wife.
Don't disturb him. said wife No. 1,
who was indeed hard-hearted woman.
81 don't want him. But hold his life in
surance policies and want to keep my eye
on him."
So that man is not so much missing
from his wife as he wants to be or thinks he
But there are missing men and missing
men. Some are missing because of their
crime and are likely to remain SO for some
time. There is Billy Maloney, John Keenan,,
Aldertuen Sayles and Dempsey, John c.
Emo, who tried to get into high society i'll
Canads and failed Lawyer Foster, the
cutest New York thief of consequence, and
host of others. This class of persons
W no are reported missing are doing very
well.
OF the unfortunate men who shoot them
selves in cheap hotels, and yet are asked
for long after they have reached PotteI's
Field, little need be said. OF the unfortu-
nate women who nightly jump from some
of the wharves to float out into the tide,
nothing need be said. They are missing and
that is all ttV
1t is computed that out Of the 10, 900 per-
sons reported each year an itemized list
would be something like this:
Lost children ......... ................5,oOO
Police prisoners mo friends in COURT ..2, 800
Young girls missing ........1, 800
Miscellaneous mot found, etc.. 200
10000
Some of the missing persons are not much
missed. Some Of them were never very
useful to themselves or anyone else, bit
what au amount of comedy aud tragedy
there must be in the experiences Of the
10000 persons who involuntarily, tempo
rariDy, or voluntarily drop out of sight and
become missing"
The sergeant at police headquarters is
philosopher.
Just you wait" he said. "When Ga
brie blows his horn they'll be there, every
one"
This, no doubt. is true. In the meantime
we will have to wait