The San Francisco call., 1898-03-22
WAS SHE
 LURED TO
 THE SOUTH? Irene Lynch, the Miss ing Girl, May Yet
 Be Located. Said to Have Left on a Visit to Lucky" Bald
 wins Ran ch. Her Distracted Father Anxious to Meet the Wealthy
 Horseman.
MET AT THE RACETRACK.
Police Expected to Find the Girl Last Night, but Were Dis
 appointed.

According to the ponce irene LynCH, the fourteen-year-old daughter of Daniel Lynch, living at 524 Geary street, was not abducted as was claimed by her parents, but is enjoying life at Santa Anita Ranch, in Los An geles. The girl is said to be friend of F. J. Baldwin, otherwise known as Lucky Baldwin, and it is claimed she frequently met him at the 1ngleside race track.
 On the morning of March g Irene, who is said to be very pretty, left her home, after promising to return in a short time. She failed to appear, and since then her whereabouts has been wrapped in the deepest mystery. Her parents, fearing that something had happened to her, at once communicated with the police, with the result that Detective Anthony was instructed to find the missing girl. After thorough investigation he became convinced that Irene was stopping at Baldwin's ranch in Los Angeles, but fearing blOodshed he Tefrained from notifying her par entS.
 Somebody informed the father of the girl that she was en route to Victoria, accompanied by a male acquaintance. Lynch, who was determined to save his daughter from the disgrace which she had brought upon herself, took the first train to Seattle, after telegraph ing to the authorities at Victoria to hold her. After he had arrived at the latter place he found that Irene was not aboard the boat on which he thought she had taken passage, and he immediately returned to this city.
 Last night he and Detective Anthony went to Oakland expecting to meet Baldwin, who had telegraphed he would arrive by the Los Angeles ex- received reports to the effect that Baldwin and Miss Lynch would arrive in this city last evening. As the train pulled in the depot Anthony made a thorough search of the cars but failed to find either of the missing ones. Con- vinced that she was not on the train the detective, accompanied by the anx- iouS parent, returned to this city. After reaching here Anthony informed Chief Lees of his failure to locate the girl, and acting on his suggestion a dispatch was sent to the police of Los Angeles asking them to make a thorough inves- tigation.
 Anthony, while refusing to admit that Baldwin took the girl to his ranch, says that it is not unlikely he will be able to show in a short time that she was with him a short time before her disappearance.
 Several days after her disappearance Baldwin left this city to visit his ranch in the southern part of the State. The missing girl suddenly disappeared on the preceding Wednesday and accord ing to the police she bought a ticket for Los Angeles. This fact was not discovered until her father had gone to Seattle expecting to find his erring daughter en route to the Klondike
 Mrs. Lynch, the mother of the miss ing girl, refuses to believe that her daughter was abducted by the aged millionaire, but says that if she has been enticed away and betrayed she will leave no stone unturned and at the first opportunity will kill the guilty one
 My Irene was always a good girl, and don't think that she would volun- tarily leave home to accompany any man. She had but few male ac- quaintances, and the few young men that she did know always came to the house when they wanted to see her. Her whole time was occupied with her musical studies, and even if she had a rowing disposition and a desire to run away from home she showed no evi- dences of it at home, because she seemed to love home in preference to the pageantry of the world
 That Irene was in the habit of mak- ing visits to BaldWin'S home and was seen several times returning from his mansion on California street as late as 10 o'clock in the evening is an untruth, as she was never out at such a late hour unless she was accompanied either by me or her brother. She could not possibly have made these visits without my knowledge, as I always waited up until long after she and her sister had retired which was usually at 9 o'clock, and there was no possible way for her leaving the house secretly after I had retired, as the two girls slept together in the same room.