Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-08-17
NOTHING BUT \ LETTER
And It Gives No Clew of the
 Missing Miss Clark.
POLICE NOT ASKED TO FIND HER.

 The Mystery of the Case Grows Deeper as the Days Go By-why Should It Be That No Relative of Hers Should Seek the As. distance of the Police Ohicials?
 NEW YORK, Aug. 1.-The only devel- opment in the case of the disappearance of Miss Lucretia Clark was the appearance of a man with a letter written by the won- an on the day she disappeared.
 The most remarkable feature of the case, even at this late day, is the fact that while the relatives and friends of Miss Clark, who are rich and influential, say they have searched the hospitals and oth- CT institutions of this city for her with the aid of the police, the police up to last mid night declared that they had not even TO- ceived a description of the missing wom- an, let alone request to make search for her.
 Acting Chief Conlin, who has become interested in the case, although he has no official right to be interested, overhauled the entire headquarters machinery yestcr- day and found there had been no applica- tion for police search.
 Now, what can we do?'' asked the act ing chief. "This woman is of age. What right have we to make search for herf Suppose we did start out tomorrow to go through the institutions, and then suppose she put in an appearance here and asked us by whose authority we sent out police men to look for her, what could we sayf In what position would we stand? So far as the police department is concerned, if any blood relative of Miss Clark will come to us now and ask us to make search fol her we shall be delighted to do so, but without a description of the missing wom- an and without proper authority to go ahead how can we do so?''
 Yet the relatives of Miss Clark in Syra- cuse and her friends in Plainfleld insist that they have got the machinery of the New York police department in operation to find her.
 The Police Not Sought.
 After a careful inquiry, starting with Acting Chief Conlin, going through the detective bureau and down ino the bureau of information, it can be stated as a fact that the services of the police of New York were only called into acquisition on one occasion, and that was when Garrett O Packer, furniture dealer of Plainfield called at headquarters on Sunday, saw Sergeant Barry, spoke to him of tho case was told by the sergeant that genera alarm would cause publicity, and there upon left, saying that he would continue the search privately.
 Captain Max Schmittberger of the Ire mont police station received some infor l nation yesterday which he believes will throw some slight light upon the disap | pearance of Miss Lucretia Clark of Plain l field, N. J.
 During the day Louis Fennebrcsse, whC lives at 1923 Anthony avenue in Fremont 1 went to the captain and showed him let 1 ter which he had received from Miss Clarl l and which she wrote on the very day O her disappearance.
 l MT. FennCbresse said that ho had me Miss Clark by appointment at tho Kello! educational bureau, 61 East Ninth street on July 3l. She explained to him that sh 1 was about to open school in Plainfielt and was in search of professor of Frencl l language. Mir. Fennebrcsse, who is a pri l vate teacher, made an arrangement to g | to the new school on certain days of eacl l week.
 On Aug. 9, the day that Miss Clark dis | appeared, sho wrote the letter that wa shown to Captain Schmittbergcr l merely said that she had decided to get | female teacher for her classes, and tha she would net require the services of MI | Fennebresse. The writing of this letter | Captain Schmittberger thought, wOul seem to show that Miss Clark had not i'll tended to go away and had not gOIe 0 her own volition. The letter was sent t | Acting Chief COnlin.