The San Francisco call., 1906-12-28
NO TRACE OF GIRL
HAS BEEN FOUND
Police Search in Vain for
Missing frankie Gates
and Fear for Her Life
LIKE LAMONT CASE

Little fifteen -year-oId frankie Gates.
the girl who mysteriously dropped out
of sight in this city last Thursday
F. while on her way from Medford. Or,
. to Globe, Ariz. has not yet been located
and her whereabouts remain as COM
plete a mystery as if the earth had
opened and swallowed her. Every pos
sible clew has been run down carefully
by the detectives Of the police depart
ment and every one of them have
proved so far to be groundless-
Firm in the belief that the missing
girl has met with the fate of Blanche
Lamont or Nora Fuller, the police are
securing every nook and corner of this
city and Oakland to obtain trace Of
the missing girl
Telegraph descriptions sent to all the
stations between here and Globe, Ariz.,
fail TO bring response
MISSED HER TRAIN
When the girl left the home of her
grandmother. 753 Seventh avenue,
Richmond District. she had intended
taking the S-o'clock train out of
Oakland.
On that same day new timetable
went into effect on the Southern Pa
cifc Railway over which she was to
travel and by the new schedule the
train left at 1920 a. N As it was after
10 O'Clock when she got on the car
near the Chutes she could not possibly
have reached the ferry until long after
train time.
To add to the difficulty in learning
whether or not she left this city the
ticket on which she was travelling
was purchased in Medford and called
for a through passage to her destf-
nation in Arizona Her baggage,
winch was also checked at Medford.
went through and arrived in Globe on
time
The relatives of the missing girl,
feeling that they have exhausted all
means within their power to locate
her. have given up in despair and are
leaving the case to the police to solve.
The grandmother. who is well advanced
in years, was forced to take to her
bed. and the physicians have considered
her case so alarming that they have
caused her TO be Informed that her
granddaughter had been found al is
safe with the father.
The girl was an absolute stranger in
san Francisco. and so far as known
has no acqUa intances. with the eX-
ception of an uncle in Los Angeles, out
side OF her home town. kilograms
sent to Los Angeles destroy the hope
tilaI she might nave stopped Oh dl lldl
city on a visit TO her uncle.
NOT USED TO TRAVELLING
According TO an aunt, Mrs. Collins.
who lives with the girls grandmother
in this city. this was Miss Gates first
trip away from home. For three years
since her mothers death she has made
her home with her paternal grand
mother in Oregon. and it was only
after long deliberation that her grand
parent consented TO her making the
long trip on which she was embarked
alone.
The theory that her disappearance
was voluntary and pFenedita1ed is dis
credited by the fact that while here
she seemed overjoyed at joining her
father and also that the only baggage
she carried with her on leaving the
train was a small old fashioned hand
bag and a pasteboard box containing
some luncheon
The girls father, John D. Gates, is
a mining engineer, and has been en-
ployed by the Old Dominion Copper
Mining Company of Globe for the past
twenty years. A telegram from him
dated yesterday afternoon stated that
his daughter had not yet arrived or
been heard from in that city.