The San Francisco call., 1908-11-06
EDNA CLARK MAY
Be IN San JOSE
Girl Answering Her Description
Seen at AIvis0 With q
Young Man
mysterious johnson" Fails to
Telephone to Woman's
Mother
Numerous clews. none of them lead

4NhiliClOuS iCicWS. llOhC VI eAA~-At
ing to any material development
marked another unsuccessful days $
! search for Edna Clark, the missing
Alameda art student, yesterday. me
/ ory after theory was advanced, worked
! out and proved worthless. The local
police took a hand in the affair, but
! without success. The mystery yester-
day remained as deep as it was on the
day of the girls disappearance-im
! penetrable. absolute.
| The most stable clew came from San
Jose, where a young woman answering
the description of Miss Clark was seen
at the Alviso hotel at dinner last night.
She was accompanied by a young man
and both were riding bicycles. At the
conclusion of the meal they started in
the direction of San Jose, distance Of
about eight miles from the Alviso hotel,
and then disappeared. The. police and
the sheriffs department were notified
of the case and Immediately started a
hunt throughout the town, searching
the hotels and rooming houses, but UP
to a late hour last night had not sue
ceeded in finding the pair.
The theory that the girl might have
gone to Niagara Falls, n. Y, and there
entered training school for nurses
proved to be without foundation, tele-
graphic dispatches from that point
stating no such person was to be found
| there.
Another clew led to San Rafael,
Larkspur and Santa Rosa 1t had been
reported at police headquarters that \
woman resembling Miss Clark had
crossed to Tiburon October 20, state
ments being made by the ferry boat
deckhands. These reports -were. given
additional significance when Lynden
Clark of San Rafael told Captain Kelly
of the San Francisco police that he had
seen the girl crossing to Tiburon on
| October 20. the date of MISS Clark's S
disappearance, and that he had accom-
panied her on the train. He said the
fact was impressed on his mind by the
fact of the girl sitting near him on the
train and created a mild interest by
informing the conductor that she had
lost her ticket to Stnta Rosa, where
she was going. She paid her fare again
and shortly afterward discovered the
missing ticket and wanted the conduc-
tor to refund the money paid by her.
NOT IN HOSPITAL
Still another clew was that Miss
Clark was patient at st. Luke's hos
pital in this city. Detectives Gallagher
and Moltke were detailed to investi-
gate but discovered that the patient,
though resembling the missing girl to
large extent, was not her. Another
story was that Miss Clark was living in
San Rafael with a family by the name
of Clark, but this also proved to be
without any stability.
The mysterious Johnson who called
up Mrs. A. E. Mack, mother of the miss
ing Edna Clark, at the Clark home in
/ Alameda Wednesday afternoon and told
Mrs. S. Bruce Wright, who answered
the telephone, that he had a personal
message from Miss Clark to deliver to
! her mother, and who said, when in
formed that Mrs. Mack was not at
| home. that he would call Thursday be-
Tween noon and 1870, did not put in an
appearance. Mrs. Mack waited patient
/ ly for the unknown Johnson" hoping
against hope that he might know some
thing of the missing young woman, but
she was sorely disappointed.
"a CRUEL FAKER"
Il believe now that the sender OF
that telephone message was a cruel
| faker," said Mrs Mack yesterday. u
had hoped that there was something
true in what he said over the phone tc
Mrs. Wright, but nothing has come OF
1t. We have received absolutely no new
clew today that brings us any nearer tc
| finding Edna than we were on the frs
day after her disappearance.
Mr.. Yates telephoned to me that the
! search Thursday had brought nothing
new to light. Most of my information
regarding the search for Edna is gained
from the newspapers. God knows. If
knew anything that would tend to clear
up this mystery and end the suspenst
l would tell it,
1T has been suggested to us agar
that Edna might be in hospital in one
of the cities about the bay. We hat
every hospital and sanitarium in Sal
/ Francisco and Oakland searched on th
! second and third days after Edna's dis
appearance, but we found no trace O
her. / have heard that the San Fran
cisco police had a theory that Edn;
was with relatives in or near Larkspur
but we have no relatives there"
The various clews were taken up onl.
to be discarded on an investigation
| The girls disappearance has, up to th
present, been complete. The detective
are nonplused, the relatives an,
friends at their wits end and thu
search today is exactly where it wa.
at the commencement. Unless add
tional clews are forthcoming, the de
tectives will have to content themselve
| with working over the old trails in tn
faint hope that some chance informa
tion will help them clear the myster,
and find fha ri