The sun., 1910-06-10
REPORTS OF ESTHER MEGUSON
WHITE PLAINS AND TARRI-
TOWN THINK THEY saw MN.
CoRsinrtSFs stSTy and an Ahanaioneti
TaNlrah WoFked Int the Abduction
The0Fy RSBO SAMSON Demanded.
NpparrRiiy hy One u the CraRks

TheOFy aSBO Ransom Demanded.
Apparently by One - the Crnnks
The coannued absence of Esther Near
sou. who left her home ar i07 Fast l23d
street on Monday last In look Tor work
A. a stenoGrapher, brought TO the girls
family yesterday several messages from
' persons who felt sure they had seen her.
IN rhe MearSOn letter box also was a de-
mand for ransom. but a. such letteTa are
the rule in cases II this sort the family
and police are disposed to discredit its
importance
Two reports which interested Lyon
NlearsOn the brother of Esther. who is
managing the family's end OG the search.
came from North TarrytoWn and White
Plaius Dr. Henry e Ruhl. who lives az
% Lemon avenue. White Plains, saw a girl
who appeared 10 he In a dazsd condition
as he was going 10 his train for New York
Yesterday morning She seemed 10 he
about 70 stop him He even thought shs
did speak u him once. but after booking
al her again he hurried on.
When the physician boarded his tain
he saw pictures and descriptions of
esther Mearson IN the newspApers lie
~as sufficiently convinced that the girl
he had noticed was she to telephone the
rohce when hs got 70 this civ The
ground IN White Plains Was gone over
later 10 the day by detectives. hut there
was NJ trace o., he girl
4 friend II Lyon MearsOn has been
dong a ltlle dete tive work on his own
account THIS N an followed up yester-
day IA" circumstance which seemed to
po,nt 10 TaTrytown Abraham Suchs-
wa.d. a conductor on the Ninth avenue
elevated. told E.sthers father. Joseph
Meurson that an elderly man aud q young
girl had been on his train together On
[ Tuesday afternoon and that the man had
askei hm the way to TarTytoWn
William Flynn. a conductor on the
Tarrytown and White Plains trolley line.
remembered last night that between
and O'Clock on Tuesday evening a man
apparently past ~ wearing light suit
and a hiaCk derby boarded his car AZ
Elmsiort, which IL a station on the Putnam
division. with a young girl. Ne noticed
braids This description tallies with
prior statements made about the appear
anC~ Of the pair Flynn .aid that the mau
dldn know the fare Ca TarrytOwn. where
he and The girl got Of
B John A. Van Tassell. Street COmmis-
-ioner Of North TarrytoWn, saw the two
on the following morning They were
walking along Beekman avenue. They
were also ss-n by q barber named Hen
shaw On the same street.
An abandoned taxicab which 10 known
10 nave bs'sn about a mile below Elmsfort
for AZ least two days was taken to the
police station in TarrytOwn last evening.
It. license number was seojl y. Y and Il
belonged 70 the New York Taxicab Com
paHv A man who knew has business was
able 10 Jump into the car and start Il
going 80 the inhabitants we're disposed
10 connect its odd presence with the Tarry-
town theories regarding the MearsOn girl
and her elderly companion
Capt kuhns Of the Harlem detective
bureau went ont Immediately after this
information came m. With him were two
strangers who were supposed 20 have
told him something beaTtng on the Tarry-
town theory
Cranks u all kinds continued TO visit
the Mearson fat yesterday Either Lyon
0r ms brother - al home all the time
50 that their mother will not be Obliged
To listen 10 the disquietlng IDEAS Of these
persons
The letter demanding ransom was
dated in Brooklyn on Wednesday and
was addressed 70 the parents Of the girl
u said that she was alive hut under
restraint aud wouldn't he ses free unless
sinO was paid The money was 20 he In
gold and the family was told to put u
"a a @wampnear a deserted bridge on Kent
avenue. Williamsburg Just above the
Grand street ferry 4 candle would he
found burning there az midnight on Fri
day The spectacular setting involved m
tins demand makes the police think that
t was seHs by some one who always
writes that sort oi letters when there IL
an opportunity
Fannie Msyerowitz, a Young woman
living in the same building with the Near
sons. recalled Yesterday that Esther had
related dream, of being kidnapped
which Lad occurred tO her three times
Miss MeyerowitZ said that she had advised
Esther 70 walk near the curh II she feared
men jumping out Of areaways Lyon
Mearron never heard Of this dream until
Yesterday He was sure that there was 70
imaginative nonsense IN hls sisters heal
She read good hooks. he said and when
he and his brother told her not 20 read
certain sensational stories she was will
ing 90 follow their advice