The evening world., 1889-03-01
CRAClE'S GONE.
Has She Eloped or Was She Kid
mapped by q Negro
Disappearance Of q Little Girl from
Her Aunt'S School.
The Police Report hat She Has L.
wanted with n Clerk.

IounR Lhuleb, ~ OH Webt DiRutS-iouEbn
street, this morning.
The missing girl is thirteen years Of age.
She looks older because she is unusually
tall and plump for q girl Of that age.
Miss Smyth. who is her second cousin, is
about sixty years old, and has taken care Of
Oracle since the latter was left an orphan.
about eight years age
Miss Smyth went out about 4 O'Clock yes
terday afternoon. A few minutes after she
had left O big negro mounted the steps and
rang tho door bell.
Miss /. Lemel. a teacher of German en-
ployed by Miss Smyth, was in the basement.
She went up stairs to open the door, but
found that Oracle had anticipated her. hay
ing the door already open, and was talking
to the colored man.
Miss Lemel caught a good view Of the
negro's face. She says he was rather good
looking and we'll dressed, but unusually
black even for q negro.
As Miss Lemel reached the door, Oracle
said "Good-by." and slammed IL too.
Then. apparently very much agitated, she
turned to the teacher and said
oh Miss Lemel, Auntie Caroline las
she always called the spinsterl. has met with
an accident, and wants me TO Ego to her at
once"
Completely deceived by her candid man.
| ubI. nllbk htulGl, ub5lhItu uOL OIL Will uoT
outer wraps and the girl left the house.
Miss Spyth returned nome about z. 80
O'Clock last evening. She had met with no
accident, and was alarmed beyond measure
upon hearing of Gracie's disappearance.
At first she suspected that the negro had
abducted the child and sent her brother
George to Capt. Berghold, Of the West One
Hundredth street police station with inform
After some reflection. however. she changed
her mind, and when seen by an EVENING
WORLD reporter this morning she was Of the
opinion that Oracle had eloped.
=" What makes you think 30 ?" asked the
Many things that have happened within
the last few months" she said. Il never had
b eassaIb,S OF TSsn n,a Tl,n t Sr Q un %Y o ,Ss,
fault she made. the acquaintance Of a man.
Who is he ?" asked the reporter.
II will not mention his name or that of
man In this part Of town.
Last December / bad some tickets to dis
pose OF for a church fair; sent my Oracle
60 TO the business man. She did no.
He was not In, but tho young man. his
partner, was. He bought some Of the tickets,
and seemed TO become infatuated with
The idea Of them keeping company was
preposterous, and when his visits here be-
came unduly frequent and l began to sus-
poet the true state Of affairs, l forbade him
Which hardly prevented thor meetings."
suggested the reporter.
No. it only made matters worse, for I
now have reason to believe that they met fire.
quently and secretly outside"
Is this man married."
mo, / do not believe he IS. Still, he is q
base villain, He is many years older than
child alone. Oracle Is an unusually bright
and attractive girl. ! was educating her to
be q school teacher.
She is very accomplished, An excellent
musician and speaks and writes German,
French and Italian besides the English Ian
ut was stated this morning that sue was n
great heiress. and that Rho left You because
wash and ~cook-.and, in fact, made her .
regular Cinderella. Is that true W asked
The EVENING WORLD man.
Miss smyth became greatly. excited and
"She is not an heiress," she said. Her
father was my first cousin. When he died.
Oracle, her sister Sarah and their brothers
were left orphans.
~ brought them here, educated fed and
clothed them. and treated them as if they were
children Of my own blood:
7 boys are now in good situations
which / secured for them aud are boarding
downtown. Sarah left me about three years
ago to work for herself. being of an indie
pendent nature.
" 1t is not true, as alleged in a morning
paper, that she had to leave me because l
oyerworked her. Oracle was never obliged
to drudge. although she was always expected
to do her share of the household duties"
When asked who the negro was who called
for Oracle yesterday Miss Smyth said she be-
loved he was IN employee of the man that
she suspects OF clipping with the girl, and
that he was sent with a message for the girl
to leave home.
Miss Smyth communicated her new view
OF the case to the police this morning, and
Detectives Feeney and Fitzpatrick were
looking for the suspected parties, whose
names Miss Smyth had given to them, and
their address also. Miss Smyth's academy IL
situated away down near the banks of the
Hudson.
The house Is one of a row of old-fashioned
frame dwellings. She has twelve scholars
and has been at her present abode for nine
years.
Her neighbors do not all speak we'll of her,
hut this, Miss Smyth says, is due 10 un-
friendly relations that exist between her and
some of them.
A member Of the Stevens family, who live
next door. to Miss Smyth, told Policeman
: Grosjean last night that Oracle had gone into
their house and bid them good.by yesterday
r afternoon, saying she was going away for
good.
Mrs. Stevens. an unattractive looking, mid.
dle-aged woman. refused to give any addi-
tional information when the reporter called
on her this morning.
When Oracle left homo she wore a Tam
: o. Shanter cap, with n JaRsel, a plush sack
: that reached the waist, q black ulster, black
dress. with a red founce buttoned gloves
-, and overshoes.
' At noontime to-day Inspector Steers re-
Q ceiyed q communication from Capt. Berg
hold stating that he Cthe Captain was salts
ned that the girl had eloped with q clerk, and
8 had not been abducted. The Captain gave
a no names nor entered into any details.