Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-12-10
SMYRNA GIRL MISSING.
Thought to Have Been Lured Away
from Home by Boston Woman.

According TO dispatches published in
Boston papers Blanche Garrison, aged
10 years, of Smyrna Mills, has disap-
peared and is believed to be in that city
where her father, the police and detec-
tives are now on the search for her
Here is the story of the case as told
in the Boston Post:
Miss Blanche Garrison. pretty,
vivacous young woman of 10 years and
the Only child of wealthy farmer of
AroostoOk county, Me-, disappeared
from Bangor while shopping with her
aunt on the morning of Nov. %, and is
supposed to have been lured to Boston,
Notwithstanding the fact that all efforts
to locate her in this city have failed
up to date.
The father has worked with a squad
of special police officers and with sew
eral private detectives, tracing her to
Boston. where. it is asserted, she ar
rived on the 8 o'clock express on the
evening of her disappearance.
The belief that the girl was lured
away from home is based on several
incidents. The aunt and niece live on
the old Kent road, about u miles from
Smyrna Mills, and often went down to
Bangor on shopping excursions. On
one OF these trips the girl got acquaint-
ed with q finc-loOkinE, stylishly-dress-
ed, elderly woman, who secured a
promise from Blanche to call on her
every time she visited Bangor. They
became so intimate that they CORE
sprnded regularly every week.
Miss Garrison Ipn1 ri mpDt
store shopping with her aunt, when, in
tentionally or otherwise, the two women
became separated. About an hour be
fore Miss GarriSonS disappearance was
woman, who, it is safe to assert, went
with her. for Il couple answering their
description rode on the train which left
Bangor about midday and reached Bos-
ton at the time already mentioned.
Upon investigation by the private de-
tectives. a couple answering the descrip-
ton of the two women took lunch in the
restaurant in the Portland depot and the
same persons hired coupe in front Of
the CaUseway street depot and rode to
Bowdoin square.
Beyond a dress suit case which the
elderly woman carried, the pair had no
nothing about where they went. The
register Of all the hotels in the vicinity
of BowdOin square fail to throw any
light on the actions of the women on the
night of their arrival in this city.
The girls father is confident that she
is detained in some place and that her
elderly companion is responsible for her
detention. Miss Garrison had about $50
on her when she deserted her aunt.
The missing girl is ii very attractive
brunette, plump. with Il finely moulded
face. dimpled. rosy cheeks and luxuriant.
flowing black hair. She is 10 years old
feet. inches tall. has dark eyes and
weighs about 125 pounds
She wore a black astrackhan coat and
mum and a black hat with ostrich tips
The father believes that his daughter
would inform him Of her whereabouts If
she was able. 1t is his firm conviction
that she was under some kind of "A spell
when she left Bangor with the unknown
woman and that she is now under some
influence she cannot resist, if. indeed she
is not a prisoner.
THE father is determined to keep up
the search until his daughter is found. ,