Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-02
SEEK GIRL HE|RESS
Police Think Miss De Jan0n Is
in Reading.
CONDUCTOR GIVES CLUE
Saw Young Woman and Her Al
legged Abductor on Train.
EXTORTI0N PLOT UNEARTHED
Cohen, the Waiter Supposed to Have
Run Away With Girl, Boosted of
Her Attachment for Him.
EXTORTION PLOT UNEARTHED

Special Dispatch to The Star.
PHILADELPHIA, Pa, January DE
tectives from here are securing Reading,
where it is believed that Miss Roberta
De Janon, who, it is thought, has been
abducted by Ferdinand or Frederick
Cohen, a waiter at the Bellevue Stratford
is at present. Cohen, it is thought, Is
still with the missing heiress. Capt. Gal
lagher has given the detectives orders to
search every hotel, boarding house and
lodging house In Reading, and the police
are of the belief that the waiter and his
victim will be found before another day
has elapsed.
The clue to the probable whereabouts
Of Miss De Janon and Cohen was given
by Bernard Campbell. conductor in the
service of the Philadelphia and Reading
railway, it Is understood. Campbell told
the detectives that Wednesday night a
man and girl, closely resembling Miss
De Janon and Cohen, took the 6:56 o'clock
express out from the terminal.
The girl, Campbell asserted, was attired
in mourning, and was slight in build.
With her she carried q small fox terrier.
They got off the train at Reading.
Saw Man and Girl.
Edward Graver. a brakeman on the
train of which Campbell is conductor,
said this afternoon that he had noticed
man, a girl and fox terrier On the
6:o6 o'clock express Wednesday evening
They were not in my COACH said
Graver. They were in the part of the
train over which thu conductor takes en-
tire charge. But when 1 had taken all
my tickets l went into the conductor 8
coach to give them to him.
On one OF the rear seats sat a man
with girl and small terrier. no.
ticed them because they had the dog
with them. 1t Is not permissible, usu-
ally, to take dogs into passenger
coaches, but the terrier was SO small
that his presence did not make much
difference. / did not look at the man
and his companion closely enough to
be able to describe their appearance
now
The case has been further complicated
by the mysterious disappearance of
Mrs. Cohen. wife of the waiter who has
eloped with Miss De Janon. Last night
street. saying she was going to New
York
Mrs. Cohen Disappears.
At the Christian street house it was
learned this afternoon that when Mrs.
Cohen left she had no more than a few
small coins in her pocketbook, and her
friends do not think she can have gone
to New York.
There is a theory. however. that she
knows where her husband is and that
after obtaining more money through some
means left this city to join him.
Developments in the disappearance OF
Miss De Janon and Cohen seem to indi-
cafe that the girl was the victim OF an
extortion plot devised by the man.
Neighbors of the Cohens, who boarded
at 1913 Christian street, said today that
both the waiter and his wife joked about
Miss De Janon's attachment to him and
he is said to have remarked that 1t might
be O profitable scheme to take her away
and hold her for reward.
Boosted Of His Conquest.
This remark is said to have been made
to Mr.. and Mrs. John Dawson. who con-
duct the boarding house where the Cohens
live. If he carried out his MAN ha rack.