New-York tribune., 1910-01-03
FIND ELOPING PAIR?
Trail TO LANCASTER.
Detectives Delay Arrest, Fear
ing Effect on Mss Deianon.
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Philadelphia, Jan. 2.-Detectves who have
been on the trail of Miss Roberta Buist
Dejanon, the sixteen-year-old granddaueh-
ter OF Robert Buist. the millionaire seed
merchant of this city, and Frederick Cohen,
the middle-aged waiter with whom she dis
appeared from the Bellevue Stratford on
Wednesday of last week. expect to arrest
them early in the morning at Lancaster,
Penn.
Following a dramatic chase. which oecu-
pied the day and lasted into the night, the
detectives definitely found the whereabouts
of three persons they had followed The
girls father who was with the searchers.
Mr.. Buist and the detectives say that the
descriptions of two of them tally with those
of the missing girl and the waiter The
third member of the party is woman,
whose identity, when disclosed they say,
will create a sensation.
Ferdinand Dejanon, the girls father, who
accompanied the Philadelphia detectives on
the chase, left Lancaster at a late hour
tonight, so as not to inf1ict on his daugh-
ter the pain of his presence at her arrest.
FEAR RASH ACT BY GIRL
After two days of heartbreaking hurry
from place to place in the outlying neigh
borhood of Lancaster, the persons be-
lieved to be the waiter, the girl and their
mysterious companion got off trolley car
in Centre Square at 1870 o'clock this after
noon and sought accommodations in a
small apartment house. The police were
watching the place up TO midnight tonight
and delaying their arrests until they formu-
lated plan that would avert the danger
of any rash act on the girls part.
Mr. Dejanon, with Detectives Emmanuel
and Scanlon, of Captain Gallaghers staff,
and Howard Earle, a close friend of Mr..
Buist. were in the party that found the
persons believed to he Miss Dejanon and
Cohen and their companion.
Mr.. Dejanon said tonight that he was
now certain the girl was temporarily de-
ranged. and in an interview went over the
circumstances attending her mothers re-
cent illness and death as an illustration of
the trying happenings that led up to her
extraordinary action The girl, he said,
was always lonely, and virtually passed her
time without companionship. The death of
her mother left her bereft, and after the
funeral, a month ago. she expressed her
desire to die.
The pursuit began early this morning in
Atglen. a lonely little town of fewer than
five hundred inhabitants, lying southeast of
Lancaster, and it led from one village to
another along trolley line leading to Lam
caster. over which two persons answering
to the descriptions of Miss Dejanon and
Cohen had fed only a few hours earlier
With the two was a woman described as
about thrty-five years old. who does not
answer the description of Cohen's wife or
of any woman known to Mr.. Buist or the
members of his family.
THE MYSTERIOUS WOMAN
Detailed information received by the de-
tectives here carly this morning left them
positive that Cohen, Miss Dejanon and a
woman who may be one of many whose
acquaintance he made during an adventur-
Gus career, reached Atglen about 3 o'clock
on Friday afternoon. and departed in hur-
ry the next morning when incoming news
papers brought stories of the elopement
and pictures of the missing girl and her
companion. Detectives Emanuel and Scan
lon, of Captain Gallagher's force. accom-
Ianied by Ferdinand Dejanon, the father of
the girl and Howard Earle of Doylestown.
a personal friend of Mr.. Buist. left town
on the first train for Atglen. So positive
were they that the chase would end success
fully that they took extra clothing along
for Miss Dejanon
The last words spoken by Mr.. Buist to
the members of the party before they left
Philadelphia was a message of forgiveness
for his grandchild. The aged millionaire
sent for his own heavy fur-lined coat and
told Mr.. Earle to carry il with him because
the girl might be cold.
Beginning at Atglen later in the day the
chase along the little travelled trolley line
was dramatic in the extreme until it was
lost half way to Lancaster. taken up again
at Williamstown and leading finally to Vim
tage, where there is only one hotel. The
missing couple seemed all the time TO be
only a few hours away
They were traced from Atglen to Gap. a
few miles away. by trolley, then to Will
Jamestown. where false tip sent the party
in hurry to Lancaster. Here the police.
after fruitless search that lasted far into
the night, seemingly disproveG that the
three had sought refuge there. The trail
was taken mp again later in Williamstown,
and was found to lead straight to Vintage,
just about two miles away by trolley.
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