New-York tribune., 1910-01-04
SEEK GIRL HERE
POLICE SPREAD NET.
Hint That Miss Deianon and
Waiter .1re IN Citg.

with the Philadelphia police haffled by
;he disappearance o. Miss Roberta B. De-
sanoa from that city a week ago, New
YORK eetectives began close search of
West Side and Tenderloin apartment houses
yesterday In an effort to trace the girl, who
is alleged 20 have eloped withe or to have
been abducted by Ferdinand Cohen, a mid
Ole aged waiter in the Bellevue-Stratford
Hotel, Pliizdelphia. where Miss Dejanon
and her grandfather, Robert BUST lived
The police are In possession OF a war
rant from, ftila delnfia charging Cohen with
abduction, and according 70 reports re-
cefrea from that city last night, the man is
in hiding IN boarding house or an apart
ngent house west OF Broadway. 4 general
alarm was sent 20 all station houses and a
description OF Cohen has been given 20 all
policemen.
Mrss Julia Cohen, the wife of the waiter,
was at Police Headquarters yesterday. but
was unable. 70 give any clews OF value TO
she detectives who are hunting for her hus-
hard The woman gave the police a num-
her OF addresses. which were Gt once investi-
gated but they failed 70 show that Cohen
end Miss pe:anon were II the city. The
search which is now being made extends
through ali boroughs and is particularly
close in afsahattan-
While a general description of the man
snd the girl has been given 10 the police
Mrs Cohen ss.c yesterday trss they were
disguised beyond recognition. Cohen, she
said had taken TO wearing u1ustacbe, and
.1e girl had q wig, which Mrs. Cohen de-
scrihed as being blond in color aud OF heavy
hair.
Mrs Cohen appeared at Police Head
quarters after she had made a search OF
hoerding houses ard hotels In an effort to
find her husband. She was unable TO make
any statement until she was treated by
several physicians. The search had led her
from the lower East Side to Harlem, and
according TO the police, she was unable to
roe II the cars at any time during the
futile search
When Mrs. Cohen had eeen revived she
said that she was the widow of Charles
Muscher, who died in Cincinnati. leaving
her $4,000. shortly after his death Mrs
Cohen met the waiter. who was at that
time employed In Cincinnati hotel. They
were married and lived together for four
teen Years, during which they acquired
properly ip Dustin, Tex. Cohen, according
tc his wife. proposedf 2 divorce several
months sso. but she refused ts consider tl.s
plan.
Mrs. Cohen was asyious TO get the sig
nature of her husband 10 the Texas prop
eTty deed She asdsd her request to find
ths missing waiter TO the order sent cut
by the Philadelphia aHiherities. Shs de-
scripe6 her husband IS being forty-four
wears old, l7S pauBds in weight, feet 9
inches tall, with dark brown eyes, dark
brown hair thresaed with gray and d
scar on the right side oc MS face. The
man was dressed ia dark suit of clothes
when last seen by her
After Mrs. Cohen had described her hus-
band she was taken 10 Philadelphia bs
Defective Lyon. who IS among the men
assigned 60 search fer Miss pejaHen. AIRS.
Cohen also told the police Of number
Of letters which were left In her house bs
, Cohen.
Ferdinand Dejanon, the father of the
saissins girl. returned to Philadelphia from
Lancaster, Penn. yesterday. He hurried
there when II was reported that hts dssgh-
Ter had been found in a hotel near the
place This report Was unfounded. Mr De-
sznen reached New York last night and
began ar tne-pendeat hunt for his daughter.