The San Francisco call., 1908-11-12

of the clergyman with young girls of
his congregation came to light yester-
day. prominent woman member of
the church declared positively that
Young was in the habit of teIephoning
to young girl parishioners and invit-
ing them to his study One of the
girls who was said frequently to receive
telephone messages from the rector is
Miss Rose Nodder, the 19 year old
daughter of w. ]. Nodder of 1925 Broad
way.
WOULD PHONE GIRL
Miss Nodder is a handsome. ma
tured girl for her age. When she was
questioned yesterday she said at first
that she was not active in church
work, but simply attended services on
Sundays. When asked concerning the
telephone messages she replied that
Rev Payson Young would frequently
ring her up to confer over some ques-
tion of church activity fair.
musicale or some other such benefcent
enterprise She said she never was
alone with him in his study, save on
two or three occasions, and that then
the door was always open. Never, de-
clared Miss Nodder, did her rector con-
duct himself other than as a gentle
man should, but she did not rank his
Miss Nodder did not know Miss Clark
nor do any of the congregation seem
to be acquainted with the missing art
student, whose leisure noontimes were
spent in the study of their pastor.
According to Professor Bona, Rev.
Joseph Vincent, the Polish clergyman
against whom Rev. Payson Young at
first tried to direct suspicion in the
Clark case, is homeward bound with
the fell purpose of shooting Young for
the vituperation. Professor Bona sent
word to Mascagni. the famous composer,
to pay Vincent 1000 francs and he says
that the money has been delivered and
Vincent is returning to San Francisco
to clear his reputation.
BONA is wRoTH
Bona is exceedingly wroth at Young
He declares that Young outraged his
hospitality and that he was in the
habit of entertaining women in the
study of the church and asking the
professor to send over bottles of wine.
When Edna Clark first disappeared it
was thought that she had gone east
to join relatives. That hope was de-
stroyed yesterday by the receipt of
letters from F. H. Clark, an uncle,
living in Toledo, O.. and Cassius Rede-
we'll. cousin, living in Phoenix, Ariz
r. H. clark wrote 10 Mrs Clark, Ed
mas grandmother, saying that the girl
had not appeared at his home. and
Redewell wrote to the same effect from
Phoenix.
A. E. Yates of Alameda, uncle of the
missing girl, said positively yesterday
that she had not been located. Mrs.
Anita Y. Marks the mother left her
home yesterday and went into seclu-
sion at the house OF a friend.
An anonymous letter has been re-
ceived by The Call from Willows. Cal,
in which the writer says he saw
girl he believed to be Edna Clark on
train No. IA that left San Francisco at
2:20 p. M. October 80. The girl was
with a man and was described as be-
ing very Hspoony." This train was the
through Portland passenger. Little at
tention has been paid to the letter by
the friends of the missing girl.
Mrs. Bruce Wright, wife of the at
torney who lived with Edna Clark,s
family. is reported to have said yes
terday that she and her husband took
Rev. Payson Young to task on the Fri
day following the disappearance of the
girl. She is reported to have stated
that Young admitted at that time that
he kissed the girl but that there was
no engagement between them