The evening world., 1911-03-07
EYES AGAIN TURN
T0PHILADElPH|A
IN ARNOLD CASE
Two Men Assert They Saw
Dorothy Several Weeks After
Her Reported Disappearance.
FATHER DENIES THIS.
Says Reports Were Sifted
Long Ago and Found to
Be Untrue.
FATHER DENIES THIS.

eistent or the early theories in the
Dorothy Arnold mystery-the belief
ina the missing society girl hid her
SELF in or near NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
renewed color of FEASIBILITY to-day
through the statements of two men
VINO profess to have known Miss Arm
Old when she attended college.
Or. Edward smythe, a young dentist
81 iansdowne. Pa, and the son Of
Charles Smythe, a prominent Philadel-
phia lawyer. Is quoted as laying that
ne knew Dorothy Arnold well, having
met her when she was a Bryn Mawr
junior and a guest at the home OF
susanna Cooper. daughter of the late
Representative Thomas Cooper, in
Media, a Philadelphia suburb. Some
time late In January OF this year, about
the 18th. he thinks 1t was, Dr. Smyt.
says he met Miss Arnold walking
through the Broad street station in
Philadelphia. This was a month and a
half after her flight from her home here
and a few days before the news OF her
Disappearance was given out 70 the
newspapers. DR.. Smyth describes Miss
Arnold as being dressed in travelling
garb. A negro porter was carrying her
hand baggage. lie says she looked we'll
and happy and told him she was on her
way to visit friends in South F.ftieth
street. Philadelphia.
Shook Hands With Her, He Saws.
The other witness, DR.. Frank Davis,
also OF Lansdowne, asserts he met Miss
Arnold at Miss Cooper's home several
years ago. lie Is reported to have
Etdtsj that on Ian % tbwaa Ja,c a s,os
her supposed meeting with DR.. Smythe.
he saw her walking alone on South
Fitfieth street and went UP to her and
greeted her.
SAe shook hands with me-" he con-
tnued. and l kept pace with her for a
snort distance wAile we MATED to-
Gether. She seemed to be in splendid
health and good spirits and told me. l
remember. that she was stopping with
SDine friends in the nelghborhoUd but
did not give the names or the address
OF her hosts. A few lays afterward |
was surprised to read that she was
missing from her home and had been
missing since Dec. L."
nut right mere, when the clue seems
strongest, It is broken abruptly by more
OF the contradictions and denlals that
have figured so much In this Arnold
case. When a reporter for the Evening
World saw the father. Francis r.
Arnold, this morning at his home, No.
108 East Seventy-ninth street, he said
his latest investigations had convinced
him his daughter was never the guest
OF Miss Cooper while a student in Bryu
MIwr. or at any other time and that
she never knew DR.. Smyth or Or.
Davis. This claim vas IN a measure
confirmed by Miss Arnold's chum, Miss
Elsie Henry of No. Il East F~orty-ninth
street, who said with emphasis she
knew positively that Miss Arnold shared
In no nelghborhood and suburban social
activities during her school days, and
therefore could not have met any young
mon at the house parties OF Represen-
tative CoOper's daughter.
O'Mara Runs Down Clue.
From another source 1t was learned
that the lawyers of the Arnold family.
Garvan, Armstrong & Keith, aided per-
sonaily by Juhn Arnold, the older
brother Of the young woman. ~investi-
gated the Smyth story more thar a
month ago and seemingly convinced
themselves 1t could not he true. Roger
O'Mara. the plttshurg detective, work
ing under the direction of George y.
GrisCom ir., Miss Arnold's sutton, is also
SAID TO ave inquired into the repor.
that she stopped for q time during jan
uary at a house IN Fiftieth street. Phila-
delphia. but without results. so far as is
known.