The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1911-10-26
ANOTHER NEW YORK
HEIRESS HAS
VANISHED
Case Similar to That of
Dorothy Arnold
MISS FAJARDO HAD A LOVER
Young Woman's Father Had At
tempted to Break Infatuation
for Porto Rican Consul

New York, Oct. 26.-This city has
been searched day and night for eight
days by detectives of the Police De-
partment and of the two largest pri-
vate agencies in the country for
Miss Consuelo Fajardo, Porto Rican
heiress Miss Fajardo is the daugh-
ter OF Luis Fajardo of Fajardo, Ward
& Co., sugar importers having offices
in the Whitehall building Her faith
er is said by Gov. George b. Cotton
to be one of the wealthiest cotton
planters in Porto Rico. Though hav-
ing an office here, he makes his
home at Mayagilez, Porto Rica.
The young woman, who was just
past nineteen, disappeared from the
Hotel Felix-Portland, 1872 West Forty
Seventh street, on Wednesday morn
ing, October IS, as suddenly and as
strangely as Dorothy Arnold was
swallowed up in the crowds of Fifth
avenue, nearly year ago The chief
difference between the two cases is
that Miss Fajardo is known to have
had a sweetheart who was froWned
upon by her father, and the father
refuses to believe that she has been
kidnapped but asserts that she is in
hiding biding her time when she
finds herself free to marry this man.
The man is almost as prominent in
Porto Rico as the girls father though
comparatively poor According to
her father, he is Pablo Cabral, a San
10 DOMINICAN and the Consul General
for his government at Mayagilez. He
is known, however, to be at home as
the girls father, who is in daily
touch by cable with Mayagilez, has
learned, and he could not therefore
have had anything directly to do with
Miss Fajardo's sudden departure.
Mr.. Faiardo said last night at the
Office OF his counsel Moos Prince &
Nathan, 6S William street, that his
chief objection to the Dominican
Consups attentions to his daughter
was that Cabral had negro blood in
his veins. Mr.. Fajardo vowed that
he had fought this match for two
years, educating his daughter here
TO prevent her from seeing Cabral.
and that he would never give in, cost
what II might.
Mr. Fajardo described last night
the circumstances which he believes
led TO his daughters disappearance.
My daughter was brought up as
a girl In Mayaguez under the close
watch of her mother and her teachers
he said. she knew nothing of men
She received her early education at
st. Joseph's academy, Brentwood, L.
l.. until she was IA years old Some
thing over a year ago ] learned that
she was carrying on a clandestine
correspondence with Consul Cabral
who lives just across the street from
me. objected to this man.
He has nothing, earning only
about 500 a month. out of which he
must pay all his expenses, but my
chief objection Is that he has negro
blood. To break up this affair
brought my daughter to this city last
fall and put her in the Academy oil
the Sacred Heart, at 135th street anC
Convent Hill. She remained Their,
until the end OF the session, last June
Then. she begged to be taken home
saying that she cared nothing To-
Cabrai, and promising never to Sc,
him, or have anything more to d,
with him.
Il took her home and she becam,
her mothers closest companion, be
ing our only daughter. But early II
September learned that she wa
: again in communication with Cabra
and | decided to bring her back 4
New York and put her in a finishin
: school We arrived from Porto Ric
: on Monday, October 16. on the steam
/ er. San Juan. We went TO the Felis
; Portland She seemed happy, an
had her time much to herself
r Between 9 and $3.50 o'clock o
Wednesday morning. October is. ho'
! ever, as | learned later, she answe
a ed telephone call in her room an
{ In less than half an hour later bo
y rowod an umbrella from the elevate
b boy and left the hotel, saying sh
I was going out to buy a magazine Sh
I told an acquaintance In the hotel lol
by however, that she was going OF
{ to get q manicure. That Is the ,ai
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