The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-23
GIRL OF tS STIRS UP A TOWN
LOST IN 4 WHITE DRESS, COMES
NOME AL IN RED.
Found. After Many Alarms. Buying ThInEs
In a POuEhk eepsle store and ship
ped hack 10 FIshkIn -YOUng Man
shOwered Meanwhile with kilograms.

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Vivian Langdon, the thirteen-year-old
daughter of Charles II. L~angdon, a New
York business man who has a large country
place near Fishkill, returned 20 her HON
yesterday afternoon after having stirred
up the village greatly. She went away on
Wednesday evening wearing a simple white
Krock and q long tan raincoat. She re-
turned In a red tailor made suit with hat
and gloves to match.
When she went away a negro servant,
Iottie Jenkins, 2i years old, also went away,
and a diamond ring belonging TO Mrs.
Iangdon and sos in cash disappeared.
Mrs. Langdon had gone 10 the village
early Wednesday afternoon. leaving Vivian
and her three little brothers at home in
charge of the servants. Mr.. Iangdon was
in Washington on business. When Mrs.
Iangdon got home, shortly after 9 O'Clock.
she asked for her daughter and then for
Lottie. Neither was TO be u about the
house. Going to her room Mrs. Langdon
found that a small jewel case in her dresser
had been opened and that the money and a
ring we're gone.
Mrs. Langdon t~elephoned to Chief az
Police Mara of Fishkill Landing. he soon
learned that the girl and the negress had
taken a trolley car to Fishkill Landing, and
bought tickets at the New York Central
station, and the station agent thought they
had got tickets for New York. Chief Mara
notified the New York police to looii ont for
the pair.
Mrs. Langdon spent a ~sleepless night.
About noon she got a telephone call from
Poughkeapsie. A Miss Clapp, who is en-
ployed in the dry goods store OF IIuckey,
PIatt 4 Co. there, informed Mrs. Langdon
that Vivian was with her. The daughter
then talked to her mother and said she
would explain all. Mrs Langdon asked
Miss Clapp, who knows the family, to bring
Vivian home, and il was done. Chief Mara
met the train and questioned the girl briefly.
She said that she had gone with the negro
servant just as a prank, and that they had
missed the last train out OF Poughkeepsie on
Wednesday night.
Miss Langdon went to the Morgan House
at Poughkeepsie and put up for the night.
The Jenkins girl went to a house in the
negro quarter yesterday morning. The
two set out to do some shopping and Wis
tied the Luckey, Platt 4 Co. store. Miss
Langdon. or the negress for her, first bought
a hat, then gloves, and finally the red tailor
made suit. This took about all OF the
cash, and then the diamond ring was
pawned,
The Jenkins girl, who had on one of Mrs.
Langdon's silk dresses, decided that she
wanted a cloak and went to the top floor OF
the store to try one on. While she was there.
the Langdon girl was recognized. She
admitted to Miss Clapp that she had started
out 70 go TO New York, but said that she
had thought better of it and was willing 10
go home. Miss Clapp in her hurry to get
the girl home forgot about the negress.
Chief Mara telephoned to Chief McCabe
Of the Poughkeepsie police to arrest her.
Detective MCGOWAN found her some miles
down the road toward Fishkill. The
negress said that when she lost Vivian
Langdon she had started to walk back to
Fishkill. She had only 50 cents. She says
she did not take the money or the ring,
but that Vivian took them herself and sug-
gested a trip to Poughkeepsie and then TO
New York. Vivian told Chief Mara that
she never had the money or the ring, but
that Lottie Jenkins had both all the time.
Chief Mara asked the Poughkeepsie police
to hold the negro girl.
A New York end OF the story came ont
last night through one of the four Lowther
brothers, who have all become acquainted
with the Langdons while at their sisters
summer place in Fishkill. John Iowther
is the editor Of a trade journal in West
Twenty-third street and rooms in Hartley
Hall, Columbia University. When Vivian
disappeared on Wednesday Mrs. 'Iangdon.
remembering that her daughter had a fancy
for John, sent a telegram to John asking
him II he knew anything Of Vivisn's where
abouts.
John telegraphed back that he didn't
and went on about his business. When
he came down from his room yesterday
morning he found a telegram waiting for
him dated Poughkeepsie and saying Meet
me at the West Twenty-third street ferry
late this morning"
While puzzling over the telegram. which
was signed with q name he had never heard.
he received another. signed with still another
name and asking him to meet the writer
and another woman az the Grand Central.
Still another telegram came appointing
another place Of meeting. o h surmised
that the kilograms came from Vivian or
some friend Of hers. He waited some time
for some explanation and then took a train
Yesterday afternoon for Fishkill to show
the kilograms TO Mrs. Langdon. Another
telegram was waiting for him at Hartley
Hall last night.