The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-02-25
VAIN SEARCH FOR MARY FLYNN
BRITISH CONSUL-GENERAL ASKS
THE POLICE TO FIND HEN.
Private Detectives Hired by the Firm
Whose Confidential Clerk She was
Seen In whitehall street nj the
Rush Hour Week Ago, Then vanished.


Seen In whitehall street nj the
Rush Hour Week Ago. Then Vanished.
Sir Percy Sanderson. the British Consul
General at this port called the attention
OF Police Commissioners McAdoo yester
day to the disappearance Of Mary Flynn
from the sight of her relatives friends and
employers last Friday afternoon. Miss
Flynn's home was at 796 Macon street,
Brooklyn. where she lived with her par
ents She YVES employed as a stenographer
and confidential clerk by f. o. jacobson
4 Co., leather merchants, at Stone street.
Miss Flynn is 20 years old, bright and good
to look at.
She was in charge of the payment of
the Jacobson employees. Last Friday. be-
fore o'clock. she distributed the weekly
wages. but did not take her own weeks
payment, s25 She remarked that she
had $50 in her pocketbook, more than
she would need for a week She left
the office after telephoning to Blanche
Miller. in the British consular Office, who
lived near her in Brooklyn, that they would
meet usual at the Wall Street ferry.
Earlier in the day Miss Flynn had told her
parents that she might spend the night at
the home OF her aunt. Miss Jane Flynn,
at 81 West Fifth-seventh street. She did
not go to her aunt's house, but did tele
phone to another relative that she WINS not
going to stay in New York. but was going
home to Brooklyn, because she was not
feeling very well
Between and $50 O'Clock that evening
Mr.. Bakesly, attorney for the jacobson
firm says he met Miss Flynn in Whitehall
street coming away from the ferry. He
says he stopped her and asked if Mr.. Jacob
son was in the Office and she said that
she thought not as she had left the office
some time before and Mr.. jacobson was
then ready to go.
Since then. so far as her family and friends
have been able to learn, no ono who knew
Miss Flynn has seen her Mr. Biakesly
says that when he saw the girl she was
corning up Whitehall street toward Jacob
sons Office and was not going toward the
Wall street ferry
Sir Percy Sander4on's interest in the
case was aroused by the grief and bewilder-
ment OF his stenosrapher Miss Miller.
1t was Miss Miler's custom 10 meet Miss
Flynn on the New York side of the Wall
street ferry "a soon after o'clock in the
evening AZ was pTdcttCdnle AllaS hIi'ei -
very sure that Mr. Blakesly i wrong
about the day on which he says he spoke
to Mis- Flynn, She says Miss Flynn was
talking to her on the telephone at the mo-
ment on Friday when Mr.. Bakesly thinks
he saw her
Miss Flynn was the most trusted en-
ploype at Jacobson's She had the power
of attorney of the firm to sign checks. ON
her desk vert. found "A number of checks
and other papers which We're 10 be attended
to the first thing Saturday morning There
is no evidence in the Affairs OF the once
that there was the slightest reconciliation
about the girls disappearance. John
Flynn the girls father Is an election di-trlc'
captain in Brooklyn. and has used an the
he has TO get the polcc there
10 find his daughter He said yesterday
that he was sure the girl had been way
laid and killed She was too big to have
been kidnapped without making such a
as would have attracted at |
tention
Miss Flynn was much in the company OF
q young man; his name Is withheld by the
fumilY hut he has been most prominent IN .
the search for the girl Sncr Sunday last
he has given up hl1 employment To search /
the CITY hospitals and sstnitnnums Tor her.
jacobson { Co. have hired private detect.
ives TO hunt for the girl. II Wa gathered 4
from these men yesterday that they thought /
there had been some sort of q quarrel In the
Flynn family. but neither Mr.. Flynn nor (
the girls mother would admit that there
wns the slightest unpleasantnes7 IN the (
family relations
The problem of finding Mary Flynn. 80 |
far ps the police are concerned, ends with [
finding that no harm came 90 the girl IN I
the streets between Stone street and the
Wall Street ferry Late at night or early
in the morning the streets along the East
River below the Bridge are lonely and dark.
fl scenes for almost any deed Of darkness
and violence But at the time when Mary
Flynn started home and for an hour there
after these streets are crowded with men
and women making their way from down
town Offices 10 the ferries.
1t il regarded n impossible by the police |
that the girl could have come 10 any harm |
unless she had been lured into some building, |
and from their information as to her habits
and general conduct they are unable 10 |
understand how she could have been 50 |
lured The police believe that unless the
family is altogether wrong n to the general
conditions of the life she led she must have |
been taken suddenly III and wandered away
and will not be found until she RECEIVERS her