The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-07-14
DIDN'T
SEEK THE MISSING
MISS AS PAST|ME
Jack Warde Needed the Money
and EVENING STARS Fifty
Came in Handy.

After eluding the s~hrewdest profess
sional and amateur detectives in New
Jersey for twelve days, the Missing
Miss was captured by a clever anna
teur. Jack Warde, in front Of Hahne's
store.
Jack Warde was at one time a pro-
~fessional pugilist, and for a long time
held the bantam weight championship
of the world. He now lives at % Nc
Whorter street, in the Ironbound sec
ton, with his wife. They have one
child.
The $50 in gold which THE EVE
MING STAR gave him for finding the
Missing Miss came in mighty handy.
IF I had not found her l would have
had to walk home" Warde said, when
he got the money. Like many others
l have been out Of work this summer.
| did not look for the Missing Miss for
fun; 1t was necessity with me; l needed
the money-my little family needed it.
when she said she would be in the
Ironbound district last Friday l started
out to look for her. l was at the Cellu-
loid Works, with the crowd, and l saw
a woman in a pink Bingham dress. but
then / did not realize she was he
Missing Miss. But on Saturday, when
she wrote in the paper that she had
worn such a dress and a hat with a
brown veil over 1t l was certain that
l would know her again.
warde Took No chances.
II determined to get an early copy of
Yesterdays paper to see where she
would be. In the meantime l wrote out
the exact words which had to be adj
dressed to her on a piece or white
paper. These l studied until l could
say them backwards. Then, when the
first edition of the paper was printed
Yesterday l was in front of THE EVE
MING STAR office, and got one of the
first copies sold. 1 quickly saw that she
said she would start at Hahne's store
soon after 2 o'clock and would work
her way up Broad street to the -Four
Corners.
We'll, l hurried down to Hahne's, and
at about a quarter after 2 ! saw her
She was hurrying out of the store. AL
though she was wearing q brown dress
recognized her instantly, I was GER
tain. While waiting for her to appear
l had pasted the slip of paper with the
formula of words on the newspaper
and this paper 1 drew from my pocket
and, while looking at the words. l went
up to her and started to read the
words.
"Of course, I was excited, and ]
would not trust my memory. She turned
to look In a show window while | was
speaking, but I stuck right by her until
I had finished. Then she said: Come
along. You WIN
"I have had some pretty tough con-
tests In my time, but this was the
toughest, as it took real study. had
to plan the whole thing out"
Many Mixed Up Magic Words.
A few persons have complained that
they previously captured the Missing
Miss and that she denied her identity
These persons were mistaken. The
Missing Miss made daily reports to
THE EVENING STAR office. and on
her travels through the city she has
been always within earshot of a COM
petent male escort. The Missing Miss
and this escort did not know a soul IN
Newark. They were from New Yorl,
and had 40 friends. or even acquaint
ances here. They had no object in de-
ceiving anyone.
The instructions to the Missing Miss
were that she was to award the prize
to absolutely the first person who conn
piled with all of the regulations set
forth. Her escort heard everything
spoken to her. In every instance, ex-
cept a few. where the persons did no
have the right paper, or had no paper,
or where it was a boy under 16, every
lperson who ~accosteb the Missing Miss,