Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1911-02-01
BELIEVE ARNOLD
 GIRL IS DEAD Detectives Employed on the Case Have Been Discharg- ed and All Coincide.
MOTHER IS IN EUROPE
Went There to Interview George GriscOm, Who Wrote Her
 Daughter Letters.
International News Special

New York, Jan. 31.---Several relai tives of Miss Dorothy Arnold, the missing heiress, and the attorneys who have been assisting in the worldwide aearcn fer her, cast aside all theories of her disappearance this afternoon and came out flatly with the announcement that they believed the girl was dead. Those of the fam fly who have heretofore refused to adopt the view of Francis R, Arnold, the girls father, that she was mur4 dered, united in statement for the press that they had too reached the conclusion held by the millionaire i'm porter ever since his daughters dis appearance on December 12. They deny tE2t they have been influenced by any new developments.
 Frank P. Garvin, counsel to the Ar holds, made a supplementary state- ment to the press in which he re- tracted all previous statements and admitted that Mrs. Arnold, the girls mother, accompanied eher son, john w. Arnold, when he started for Italy January ,, to interview George Gris- com Jr. He added that letters from Griscom were found in Dorothy's desk the day after her disappearance and detectives were immediately put to work tracing his movements in Europe. Mrs. Arnold was not satis
 flied with Griscom's statements f7 Italy that he knew nothing about the case and accordingly took ship to Havre for personal interview. He refused to divulge the present whert- abouts of Mrs. Arnold, further than to say Chat she was still in Europe This statement seems to solve the mystery surrounding the identity of the yelled woman who paid George s Griscom a visit at a hotel in Floc- ence two weeks ago.
 The lawyer said today that all the detectives engaged in the search had been discharged on the theory that the girl was no longer alive. This action was taken apparently in the face of the fact that every move of the girl on the day of her disappearance indicated that she was about to take a tourney It has been established that a girl, resembling her in every feature, inquired about the sailing time of steamships at an office next to Brento's book store, where she pur- chased a novel.
 Dorothy Arnold in Italy.
 Florence, Italy, Jan. 31.-A yelled woman who called upon George Gris- com Jr., of Pittsburg, early in Decem- Der is believed to have been Miss Dorothy Arnold daughter of the New York millionaire importer who dis appeared from her home there on De- cember 12.
 2 The young woman visited the An gelo American Hotel here sometime after December 15. As nearly as the clerks can recall, day before she called a pretty young woman visited the hotel and asked if Griscom was registered there.
 Griscom had come to the hotel on November 21 with his parents. When the clerk informed the young woman that. Griseom had room at the ho- tel she expressed her thanks fer the irformation and left.
 T'ee next day the same young wo- n1an was back et the hotel. thi. time with the ycurg woman " airing the we'll. They asked for the Griscom opartments and We saken up to 1t. --er s-77-e fi--r tsn-e was an earnest talk between Griscom and the two. What was the nature of the talk, the clerks at the hotel do not know. From