The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-08-13
FLORETTA WHALEY
 MAY COME HOME Grandmother Ready and Anx- ious to Receive
 Her.
WHEREABOUTS UNKNOWN
Report That Girl Who Eloped With Cooke is in Canada
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New York, Aug 12.-"I am still look ing for my granddaughter" said Mrs. s. Whaley at her Hampstead, L. l., home this morning, T wish Floretta would write to me- She will find her home still open to her if she will re- turn. have heard nothing from her since she went away"
 FIoretta Whaley. of whom Mrs. Whaley is so anxious to receive tid- irgs, Is the 17~year-old school girl who on April 29 last fled from Hampstead with the rector of St. Georges Protes- tant Episcopal church, the Rev. Jere Rhode Cooke. From the time the pair disappeared there has been no trace found of either of the elopers and gradually the community was forget ting the incident. Interest was revived in it to-day by the published announce ment that friends of the girl had heard that she was in an institution in Canada, and that Cooke was not with her.
 There is no evidence to back up these statements. As far as can be aseertained there was rumor to that effect in Hempstead, but it lacks any sort of verifieation. Mrs. Whaley, the grandmother of the girl, expressed her anxiety to find Cooke this morning. She desires to prosecute him to the full extent of the law
 Miss Aubrey Townsend, a friend of she missing girl, said that she had heard tlat Floretta was in some sort Of an institution and that Cooke had lef. her, lut when questioned she de- clared that she could give no authority for the belief. Tn the village the be- lief was general that the grandmother of Flcretta was In correspondence with A her. but Mrs. Whaley immediately put sAese reports at rest
 Florettas whereabouts Is unknown to her, but welcome awaits the er- ring girl If she will return to the old AlOlllC. NpOhC W dS uDl1OShCh Dy HlS bishop soon after his disappearance.
 The church, of which August Bel mont is q vestryman, has decided to raise the salary of the new incumbent on the theory that perhaps Cooke, who received s1,500 a year, did not receive enough. August Belmont, in urging that the salary be raised, told some If the Troresting ladies of the congrega- ton that they could economize in many small ways on their trips to the Long Island beaches and on other small expenditures. Belmont's advice about small economies have caused some mild amusement.
 Hartford, Aug. 12.-Rienzi A, Clarke of Hartford, father of Mrs. Cooke, when as'red if he had heard anything of either of the couple, said he had not. He was surprised to learn that Miss Whaley had been found, the news al that time not having been contra dicted He said he thought Cooke would desert her after their supply of nl,ney was exhausted, and seemed to think the girl was fortunate to be rid of tho fellow He said Cooke could dG rctiing but paint and preach, and now that the latter vocation has been deserted he would not be able to earn very high living with the paint brush.
 Mrs. Cooke, who makes her home with her father at No 521 Prospect avenue, has heard nothing of Miss Whaley from Long Island Later in the summer Mrs. Cooke expects to go to Hampstead to visit with friends in her husbands former parish.