New-York tribune., 1910-01-01
SEEK ELOPING PAIR
NAY HAVE BEEN PLOT
Tsco Viezcs of Disappearance
of Waiter and Mss Dcjanon.
lBy Telegraph to Tn. Tribun..] ]

tBy Telegraph to The Tribune.]
Philadelphia, Dec 81 Whether Miss Ro-
berta b. Dejanon. the sixteen-year-old
granddaughter and heir of Robert Buist,
the millionaire seed merchant. who d!sap-
peared from the BeIlevue-Stratford Hotel
yesterday morning with waiter three
times her age, Ia the victim of an extraor-
binary infatustion or the chief sufferer IN
extortion plot, is question that is
puzzlng the police.
Picked men from various detective head
quarters, with a battalion of F!nkertons.
who were set to work yesterday, searched
this city New York. Washington and Bal
timore all day to-day and tonight. GUARDS
in Fsirmount Park searched through the
snow and along the Schuylkin River, IN
belief that the girl may have killed herself
there. as she threatened to do In the last
letter which she wrote to her father before
sne left the apartment which she shared
with her father and a governess at the
Bellevue.
No trace of the gir! or Frederick Cohen.
the waiter. was found by the police, who
stood aghast to-day at a series Of revela-
ticns made by Mrs. Julia Cohen. wife OF
the missing waiter, who was left destitute.
Letters displayed by Mrs. Cohen indi-
cate a friendliness of several months stand
ing, and even claudestine meetings. between
her husband and Miss De Janon.
OF those letters, their usual phraseology
and microscopic investigation of Cohen's
past record left the police under the I'M
preston tonight that the waiter, all the
while he vas posing as an humble friend of
the Buist family. was Matching a plot TO
kdnap the girl in order to obtain from her
wealthy grandfather large reward for her
roxII he iotn Ives do r
Cohen of any knowledge of this alleged
scheme.
Robert BUST grandfather of the girl sit
ting In his apartments at the Bellows to-
night. with telephone at his elbow and
almost on the verge of collapse from a long
period of anxiety, bitterly denied report
that he had virtually cast off and disinher-
tied his granddaughter.
Il shall keep Up the Search he said
sadly. AS long as I have dollar to pay
detectives and now or at any time she shall
have the same devotion from me that she
has always had. I had made Roberta my
ward and she was to have been my heir.
And I think she needs me more now than
ever she did before.
Cohen, if 1t is shown that he took the
child away. shall receive the greatest pun
ishment that I can get for him.
unusual beauty, is the daughter Of Ferdi-
She is of medium height and slender build.
and is a pronounced brunette.
Cohen is forty-fve years old. short. slight
and partly bald. He was born in Vienna,
Austria. He is also known under the
names Of Ferdinand Cook Ferdinand Wood
and Ferdinand Seville.
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The wife of Cohen made the statement
to-day that she believed her husband and
the young heiress left the city together and
produced letters TO strengthen her belief.
The theory, based on letters sent 10 her
relatives by the girl. that she contemplated
suicide, Is secuted by the deserted wife.
That the girl was infatuated with Cohen
or had partly filial. .love for him is ind-
Gated by her letters to him, which Mrs.
Cohen has in her possession. Miss De-
janon addressed several of these mlssives
to ''My Dear Papa" as well as My Dsr-
ling Fred" and signed herself Your Low
ing Daughter or "Your Ancctonate
Daughter
In one OF the letters she said she knc,s
she could not marry Cohen and that shs
would lose her fortune. but that she Hcula
not be hfsppy until she was undqF his pro
lection.
Miss Dejanon is said To have inherited
$4,000 I'm money and jewels from her
mother but she WAS 0St se get this until
she was twenty-orc years Ct age. AS heir
10 her grandfatne. sGc Nould inherit $40
900 90. "Howtser.' she writes, II care
nothing fer n,epes,
MY hvslaA& had been employed at the
Bellevue siratfora for six months" said
Mrs Cohen to-day. when in the latter
aa.t of october the Dsjanons came there
from rhe White Mountains A few nights
aftcr they arrived I dreamed that a girl
etVod at the side OF my bed ana sneered
at me.
II awoke screaming. and when my hus-
band asked me what was the matter ] said,
4 dreamed you cloped.' Nonsense he re-
piled. He seenled worried after that, and
he acted so strangely that got suspicious.
and one day I went 10 the Bellevue sni
waited in the corridor until Miss Dslsnon
came out Of her room. Sure enough. sss
was the girl OF my dream. eoala set
mistake her
Not long after that Fred confessed -
me that my dream was trae, fss as ihs
giri was concerned. and satd; SHE Is ttA
most beautiful girl 1 ever aaw. Hzr eYes
fascinate me ! stand Set~ssa tSse anf
duty. She wants nss 90 tska AeF swsv
Continually myshasbana ssiked ~ Miss
Dej8non. and last Tuesday niKbt ns et.ka
me by shouting, nay hgslD s. Aiisaies sf'
I'm all atsre. Roberta wants 30 o. fs
with heg.
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