New-York tribune., 1907-10-05
MALONEY GIRL MISSING.
THINK SHE Is HARRIED.
STANDARD Oil Mans Daughter
LeaUes Home 7cith Englishman.

Asbury Park. ~ j.: oct. Mrs. Martin Ma
loney, wife of the Standard oil man. tried this
morning TO get a special train to take her from
Spring Lake 10 New York City. where she was
to join her husband. who was travelling as fast
| as steam could carry him from ST. Louis They
were To meet and start a search for their
daughter, Miss Helen Maloney, who has been
unaccounted for since Tuesday Mrs. Maloney
said to-day that she thought her daughter had
been married. but declared she could not un-
derstand why the young woman had taken this
action. as there was no opposition
When Mrs. Maloney finally left Spring Lake
after finding that a special train would not
carry her to New York any faster she carried
with her special deliver letter addressed to
her husband and written by her daughter. Mrs
Maloney would not open the letter.
Miss Maloney. who Is a little more than
twentS-one. received gift of 10000 on her
birthday She is supposed 10 be Mrs. sam
uel Clarkson Her supposed husband is a resi-
dent Of London, and wealthy in his own right.
Mr. Maloney while his wife was fretting here
over means of keeping a teegraphc appoint
ment he made with her. was travelling from St
Louis to New York. having left President Rooso-
velt's party receiving word from his wife of
what had occurred here and at New York since
he started on Sunday to join the President
Mr.. Maloney told his wife TO meet him in
Philadelphia to-day but he must have travelled
faster than he expected. Before it was time for
Mrs Maloney to start for the Quaker city she
received word to meet him in New York,
Miss Maloney is said to have become acquaint-
ed with Mr.. Clarkson in England a few months
ago. Mr.. Clarkson came TO this country early
last summer. and he and Miss Maloney are said
to have met frequently. For some time Mr.
: ClarkSon had been member of the family
party staying the Maoney homo. at Spring
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elope not suspected. 1t is believed that
the elopement If there one. was hastily
planned after Miss Maloncy's father started to
join the Presidential party.
on Tuesday Miss Maloney went to Manhattan
to do some shopping She was accompanied by
French maid and escorted by Mr.. Clarkson
They went to several shops in New York and
then to luncheon at the Waldorf-Astori There
the maid is said to have been instructed to wait
until o'clock for Miss MaIoney's return She
waited until o'clock and then teiephoned to
Spring Lake for instructions. The maid had
meanwhile done some telephonng on her own
behalf. She traced the couple to Sherrys
1t is said at Spring Lake that Miss MaIonev
telegraphed her brother Wednesday morn
ing that she had been married Before leaving
here Mrs. Maloney to-day said this was not
true, but that what did arrive was the special
delivery letter she carried and which probably
contained a solution of the mystery.
Despite this positive denial, it is said that
there was telegram, although possibly not to
Mrs. Maloney, and that besides conveying the
information of a marriage it said further that
the bride and bridegroom were about to sail
for England. However this may be. it is now
known that Wednesday Mr.. and Mrs Louis
Carbery Ritchie. the latter sister of the miss
| ing young woman hurried here and then went
| away, taking with them two trunks of steamer
size. With them in personal charge of the bag
gage went the MalOney butler.
Mrs. Maloney said she had doubt that
Helen and Mr.. Clarkson had been married She
wanted 1t understood that it would be unfair TO
intimate that they eloped because of parental
objection to the marriage. She said that
neither she Mr. Maloney was particularly
prejudced" She said that if she and her hus-
band found their daughter they would trv TO
induce her and her husband TO return to Spring
Lake and spend their honeymoon in this country
Miss Maloney was maid of honor at the we'd
ding of her sister Margaret to Mr. Ritchie AT
Spring Lake in June. 1904. Cardinal SatoIh at
that time the Popes representative in this conn
try. officiated at this ceremony, and bestowed
the Papal benediction the married connie
Martin Maloney is Papal marquis, having had
the honor conferred on him by Pope Leo Kill