The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-30
Park Lake Froze Over the
Night Former Bryn Mawr
Student Disappeared.
MYSTERY OF MILLI0NAIRE'S
DAUGHTER IS BATTLING
Detectives and Lawyers Unable
to Learn Fate Of Pretty
Dorothy Arnold.

NEW YORK. Jan. 29.-Through John
S. Keith. of counsel for the family. the
relatives of the missing Dorothy Arnold
told In part tonight OF what they have
done in their efforts 10 find her, what
theories they have had. and how those
theories have been exhausted.
So far as new developments 60 the
family and the police are no nearer an
Idea of where the girl Is tonight than
they were the night of December 10.
when she failed to return home.
The name OF George G. Griscom. Jr.
OF Pittsburg has come into the case in
certain quarters. said Mr. Keith. "and
I want to explain Just how Miss Arnold
stands and has stood with regard TO Mr.
Griscom.
Miss Arnold knew Mr.. Griscom as
her correspondence after she disappeared.
we found his name and three other
names OF younger men in New York City
whom we thought Ii necessary to investi-
gate, just as we investigated everything
and everyone who might have the re-
motest bearing on the case.
we decided TO call on all Miss Arnold's
classmates at Bryn Mawr and other
young women who knew her well for
information OF any particular man with
whom she might have been on especially
friendly terms. Mr., Griscom was sug
gested One girl was sure Dorothy had
not heard from Mr.. Grlscom for two
on November ), 1910.
School Friends Consulted.
In those circumstances. we did the
natural thing-we went to the best
known Griscom In New York. Lloyd c.
was a distant relative whom he had not
seen in twenty years. He was able to
refer us, however. 10 an aunt in Pitts
II
Italy with his father and mother
1T happened that there were young
whom Dorothy had been very intimate
almost as sisters might be. So We sent
| a cable TO those young women, asking
them to inquire. OF Mr.. Griscom for us
| what he might know OF Dorothy and 10
send us back word by cable if he had
anything important to tell.
What he had to tell was so unin
portant that they merely wrote. Mr..
| Griscom was thereupon eliminated from
the case. No suspicion attaches 10 him
| whatever,
I'VE had no theories left concluded
Mr. Keith. 1--WE started with three
that it might be a love affair. discomfort
or ambition, or suicide. So far as we can
see the theory of a love affair is not In
dicated, We are convinced that Miss
| Arnold did not set out TO earn her own
| living. AS for suicide. only know that
| she seemed happy up TO the moment she
| left
Mr. Keith denied that the family had
any reason to believe Miss Arnold was in
| the habit OF receiving letters from abroad
at the general delivery window of the
| postoffice.
a letter to which the family attached
some Importance was received today
! from Buffalo, dated January &c, 1t had
| been written from a hospital there and
| said:
There is lady here. She is sick in
bed; She is insain Come ~ and see see t,o
country continue TO pour in.
The possibility of Miss Arnold having
been attacked in the lark was thought
by Mr., Arnold tonight to have been
woman brought 10 the house This
woman said she was positive she saw
Miss Arnold walking toward the entrance
OF Central park III the afternoon OF De-
cember -. the day she disappeared,
Mr. Keith said that tho positiveness
OF the woman had all but convinced him
that search OF the lake in Central park
might be worth while. On the night of
Miss Arnold's disappearance the lake
froze over and as 1t has remained frozen
since then a body. il in the lake, prob
ably would not be discovered.