New-York tribune., 1897-07-31
LIVED A MONTH IN A PARK CAVE.
THE ARSENAL POLICE GATHER IN WILD
GIRL"

cus,a crumet the hfteen-year-old girl who dis
appeared from her home a month ago. and FOR
whom a general alarm was sent out was captured
I'm Central Park by the police last night. Sne heh
s,ont in a cave in the Park for several weeks.
81 sic lived with her parents at No $50 East sew
ntv-frst-st and left her home In most myste-
rious manner Her father and mother hunted high
and low for her without success. and hially re-
ported her disappearance TO the police. ana gen
eral alarm was sent out from Headquarters IN
some manner Susie's parents yesterday got word
that she had been in Central Park. In com
pany with a young man known as John Meyers
and they called on Captain Collins. OF the Arsenal
and told him what they had learned. Mrs Grumet
gave the Captain a picture Of the missing girl.
and as the men were starting for their posts last
night the picture was shown to them, and they
were instructed TO keep a sharp lookout Tor the
girl Detectives McGee and Herlich were especially
Instructed hunt for the missing girl ,,
The detectives entered the Park at Fifty ninth
ST. and Seventh-ave. and climbed TO what Is known
Tho bovs pav bali. TIE detectives suddenly saw a
girl run through the grass and hide behind a Dench
hey DST chase dse snG of n% rcck Rc
description of Susie. and they placed her under
extremely Interesting before the officers got her to
A1ens When srb a Fnfh Fer ons black har
vas hanging about her shoulders and when ps she ns
for a month. nobody doubted her. 80
At first she insisted that she was not the gral
then cypained that she had made her home in the
cave at the south end OF the old reservoir near the
northeast corner OF the large lake IT Is forty feet
deep fifteen feet wide. and considerably higher
than a tall man The entrance is as large as a
doorway and altogether 1t is quite an attractive
spot She said that in wet weather she had stayed
at the home of friend. whose address she would
nor Give She said her STEADY whose name was
John Meyers but whose address she would not
give had called her regularly.
Sergeant England said that Susie was the widest
Girl ho had over seen. The girl sent 10 the
rooms of the Gerry society last night, and an effort
will he made to-day to have her leturn 10 her
parents home. ,, ,.
Joseph Grumet Is a respectable cigarmaker. but
irrer1llar work diminished the family income, and
Mrs C;rumet tried add TO IL by taking In wash
ing Susie il is said. often threatened to run away
from home because things were not as pleasant
there as she desired them.
When Detectives McGee and Herch were re- taking
tho Girl TO the Gerry society rooms she told them
that She had spent some Of her time after leaving
hnme with George Madden, alias ''Frenchy," who
lives at No l09 West Twentyffth-st. She said
that the Young man could be found any evening In
saloon at T'werty-eighih-st and Sixth-ave. The
detectives went To the saloon and found Madden
there He did not want TO he arrested. and said
When the detectives insisted Madden fought so
dcrcoy and such a disturbance was raised that a
great crowd gathered. which blocked Sixth-aye.
/ and even stopped the streetcars for a time. The
Young man was occurred and taken to the Arsenal.
/ lie was charged with abduction and locked up In
/ the East Sixty -seyenth-st. station.