New-York tribune., 1889-10-18
MISSING FROM FIFTH-AVE.
SECRET POLICE SEARCH FOR TWO YOUNG
GIRLS.
THEY WERE LAST SEEN BY THEIR MUSIC TEACH.
Ah-THEIR FATHERS WELL KNOWN IN WALL
sTREET-MYSTERY ABOUT THE CASE.

sTREET-MYSTERY ABOUT THE CASE.
A secret search for two runaway girls of GOOD
Iamiiy was being made by the police yesterday.
Two men, who wealthy and are we'll known in
"all-st'. went to Police Headquarters at l ~. m.
ana made Inquiries TO ascertain if any accident
had happened to their daughters. They said the
eirlS lett their homes at D. m. on Wednes-
uay 10 go to the rooms of their music teacher, in
l"enty-third-st., and they had disappeared mys-
terlouSly BY request, the police refused to dvuge
the names of the families, whose hories were said
10 be IN the neghbOrhood OF Fifth-ave. and
1wenty-irst-st. The anxious fathers returned to
headquarters again before noon, and the police
returns were inspected carefully 1t seemed evil
Gent that the girls had not been arrested and had
not met with any serious accident within the
knowledge of the police. The greatest possible
secrecy regarding them maintained No
alarm describing the girls was sent out to the
precincts, for fear that the reporters would see the
alarms and learn the identity of each girl.
inspector Williams took charge of the police
search and sent Roundsman Cooper to trace the
movements of the runaways as far as possible.
The Inspector refused TO give information on the
subject except to say that the girls belonged to
wealthy and highly respectable families and were
over sixteen years old. Late in the day he said
~ 'NAp oOlu mlSoine, anu thc pohCC hiu hOI
been able to discover that they had been seen by
any acquaintances later than Wednesday after
noon. They attended school together last year
and were warm friends. As their homes are not
far apart they have been in each others company
a great deal since they ceased to attend school.
Their behavior had been irreproachable, it was
said Each had enjoyed the advantages of wealth
and refining influences since childhood.
The girls went together to take music lessons
in Twenty -thrd-st. on Wednesday afternoon, and
when they left their instructor at p. m. they
spoke of going to make "a call on another girl
friend in the city, but they did not reach their
friends homc and the police detective has not
been able to trace them beyond the house of the
music teacher in Twenty-third-st.
The families of the girls did not take alarm until
late on Wednesday evening. Each father thought
his daughter staying at the other girls house,
as evening visits had been exchanged frequently.
About midnight, however, one OF the men went TO
call for his daughter at his ncighbors house, and
then for the first time il was discovered that both
girls were missing. Excitement and dismay fol-
lowed the discovery. Carriages were called, ana
haSty but futile inquiries were made at the houses
OF other intimate friends. At length the fright
ened fathers drove Police Headquarters to make
that the girls had not been hurt or killed in
some street accident.
IL was not believed yesterday that the girls
had been abducted or had committed acts of
folly. The fathers were inclined to think, it
said, that the girls had taken a sudden notion
TO go on a short journey out of town together
and had neglected to send word to their homes.
They had money enough in their purses % de-
fray the expenses of a short trip.
At late hour last light Superintendent Murray
sent out a general alarm to all the hospitals and
hotels in this city and Brooklyn. for two girls,
sixteen years DID, both brunettes, tall and SLENDER
and both dressed in dark clothes" No names or
addresses were given, great effort being made on
the part of the police TO conceal the identity OF
tI urls