New-York tribune., 1910-01-09
MRS. COHEN TO SUE
4 FALL RIVER CLEW.
Waiter May Hare Fled to
Canada-Drop Case Here.

Philadelphia, Jan. S.-Mrs. Ferdinand
Cohen. wife of the hotel waiter who disap-
peared about the time Miss Roberta b. De-
janon reported missing, announced to-
day her intention of bringing suit for
$4,000 against Robert Buist, the grandfather
of the girl, for alleged alienation of her
husbands affections.
Mrs Cohen returned here last night from
New York and called upon Henry j. Scott,
an attorney. to-day, and instructed MIN 10
bring the suit. Mr.. Scott said he wouid
prepare the papers and institute the SUIT
next week. The action, Mr.. Scott said, VIII
be brought against Mr.. Buist as guardian
of the girl. the missing heiress being .
minor.
Before comforting with the attorney, Mrs.
Cohen discussed the case with her usual
freedom. II am going to get satisfaction
she said every one seems to think that
L am as much 10 blame in this case as any
body, No one has any sympathy for me-
Well. / will see what the court says about
it, 1 propose TO make these people sweat
for the way have been treated
An interview, said to have been given out
in New York by Ferdinand Dejanon, In
which II was intimated Mrs. Dejanon
died from poisoning, is not taken seriously
in this city, where ii Is understood she died
following an operation for tunor. Mrs
Dejanon was attended by two well known
surgeons of the University of Pennsylvania
Hospital
report here to-day was to the effect
that the missing couple had been seen in
Fall River, Mass, where IL Is believed they
went after being driven to the pier from
the Hotel Bayard in New York Sunday
evening.
S- r0la Ia
ianon arrived in Fall River on the steamer
Providence at o'clock Monday morning
Many persons who were on the boat and
about the pier at the time she arrived
identified photogra phs of the couple as like
nesses of man and a girl who were among
the passengers, Ii is said.
About noon on Monday Cohen entered
the Wilbur House and registered Fred
Cohn, New York" The girl was not with
him at the hotel and he ate a 50-cent
dinner alone. He fingered about the hotel
for awhile after dinner and then went
away. Mrs. Cohn thinks her husband may
have gone TO Canada, deserving the girl.
Although relatives OF the girl still ad-
here TO their denials, rumors that Miss De-
janon has been found and is in secluson
will not down. 1t has been noticed that the
search for Miss Deianon and Cohen is less
active than II was several days ago, which
fact has lent color to the rumors. 1t is
persstently reported that the girl is on the
farm of w. Atlee Burpee, q personal friend
of Robert Buist. but this is positively de-
MED. The farm is at Doylestown. Penn,
twenty-five miles from Philadelphia.
Timothy O'Leary, assistant superintens-
ent of police, said tonight he had no
knowledge of the whereabouts of the girl
but made the significant remark that the
newspapers had better drop the affair. An
other high police official ventured the pre-
diction that the newspapers will never get
the story of the case.
The search for Miss Roberta Deianon.
of PHILADELPHIA, and Frederick Cohen, the
with the girl, was practically ended by the
New York police yesterday. While rela-
tives of Miss Deianon have not admitted
that she has been found. the police ap-
peared satisfied that the mysterious disap-
pearancc has been solved by those interest
ed in the girl.
With the inactivity of the local detective
bureau, the private agency which was en-
gagged to find Miss Dejanon has also
dropped the case. Ferdinand Dejanon, the
father of the missing girl, left his room, at
No. 81 East 2lSt street, at 3 o'clock yester-
day morning. He had not returned to the
place last night and, while large amount
of mail had been left for him. the house
keeper said that she had been unable to
get in communication with him.
A music teacher who was acquainted with
Miss Dejanon and her mother was unable
to throw any further light on the disap-
poarance yesterday The man said that the