The San Francisco call., 1908-11-14
TO HEAR
FROM EDNA CLARK
Oakland Police on Trail That
May Result in Locating
Missing Girl

After a fortnight of lethargy the
Oakland police force began yesterday
to exert itself with unusual activity in
the case Of Edna Clark, the Alameda
art student. who for II days has been
missing from her home Police probes
started yesterday to reach into the
abyss of mystery into which the girl
disappeared. Every person involved
in the case was watched vigilantly, and
so keen did the quest become that the
Oakland detective force predicted last
evening that important clews would be
followed today to possible success. Two
facts appeared yesterday to encourage
the police and the distressed family.
Two men were in consultation with
Captain Petersen of the Oakland police
yesterday and they gave him important
information regarding the whereabouts
Of Edna Clark on October 2S. the day
after she left her home. The police
also learned the character of certain
pictures which were in the girls album
and which contained writing.
The prognostications of members of
the family and those who have been
following the mystery of the missing
girl, sound like the occult mutterings
of clairvoyants. A new and uncanny
development is to come about today, a
wheel within a wheel, mystery within
a mystery, that viii be solved simulta-
neousIy with the delivery of Edna
Clark. sound and well, 10 her relatives
Word was reported to have been re-
ceived by a San Francisco friend of the
missing girl which, it is believed, will
lead TO the first definite word regarding
Edna Clark.
Mrs. Anita Mack, mother of the Clark
girl, and Police Captain Petersen of
Oakland were emphatic in their state
ments last night that they have no
word of the missing girl. The mother
has no clew. Petersen was reticent.
Last night he did not know where Mrs.
Mack now is, but he will learn this
morning.
The girls family are ready with
definite assurance that Edna Clark is
not in hospital nor sanitarium. They
state that the health of the girl was
normal in every way. Mrs. Mack prided
herself, the family say, on her assid-
uous regard for her daughters physi-
cal condition.
More occultIy, the family friends de-
clare, that when the Clark mystery is
solved it will be found that a deeper
stratagem than is now generally sus-
pected viii be found to be behind the
strange case.
But all that is rambling speculation.
That an espionage is kept on the
friends of Edna Clark most interested
is known. One young woman friend of
Edna Clark said yesterday that several
letters which she was sure had been
sent her had not been received. Mem
bers of the girls family have been
shadowed for the past seven days. One
of the shadowers has represented him
self as being a secret service man.
Rev. Payson Young still remains in
seclusion at the Oakland lodgings to
which he retired Immediately after
admitting that he had kissed and en-
braced Edna Clark in his study He
pretends to be ILL., but the police be-
lieve that he is shamming.
From his safe chamber yesterday he
sent out a statement in effect that he
never did kiss Edna Clark and that the
account of his unclerical conduct as
published in The Call, was false That
statement does not carry any weight
It is recalled that not only did Young
reluctantly confess his reprehensabIe
conduct to The Call, but he had pre-
viously told the same story to A. E.
Yates, Mrs. A. Z. Yates, Miss Edna
Reynolds and Bruce Wright, the attor-
ney Young's disregard for the truth
Clark disappeared. But however close
ly he may have been connected with
the first movements of Edna Clark
after she left home, it is thought that
at the present time he does not know
positively where she is.
Young is thought by some to be pre-
pairing his defense to bring before the
ecclesiastical court of the Episcopal
church. Rev. David Evans. recorder
of the court of inquiry, said last even
ing that as yet no affidavits had been
filed against Young.
In speculating on the possible where
abouts of Edna Clark the police are
Investigating the fact that a short
time before the girl left her home she
had said that she wanted to visit a
place about which she had been read
ing for the last two years.
1t was learned yesterday that on the
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