Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-30
WILL DRAG PARK
LAKES IN MISSING
HE|RESS SEARCH
Dorothy Arnold Was Seen in
Fifty-ninth Street Late the
Day She Disappeared.
BUFFALO POLICE LOOK
INTO CLUE in THAT CITY
Unsigned Letter Received from
Bison City Saying That Miss
Arnold Is in Hospital.

NEW YORK, Jan. 30-Preparations
are being made today to drag the lakes
in Central Park for the body of Miss
Dorothy Arnold, the missing heiress.
The police are also preparing to act
promptly upon a possible request of
Francis R. Arnold. the missing girls
father, that the two reservoirs in the
park also be dragged.
Miss Arnold's declaration to an ac-
quaintance she met on the street late
on the afternoon of the day she dis
appeared, that she intended to walk
home through the park, has given
weight to Mr.. Arnold's conviction that
his daughter met with foul play in the
park and that her body may have been
thrown in the lake.
Mr.. Arnold has contended from the
first that his daughter met foul play
while walking to her home along one
of the secluded park paths on the after
noon of December IL, and information
was brought to the father today which
gives weight to this theory
Seen in Fifty-ninth Street.
Up TO this time 1t has been supposed
that Miss Arnold was last seen on
Broadway between 1:SO and 2 o'clock
on December 12. Now, however, it de-
velops that she was In Park & Tilford's
store, in Fifty-ninth street, between
4:30 and o'clock that afternoon.
This information was given to John
8. Keith, OF counsel for the Arnold
family. by a woman who telephoned
him. The woman refused to give her
name, but her conversation was that of
a person of refinement She said MISS
Arnold went into the store when 1t was
getting dark and requested that candy
be given her and charged to her faith
er's account.
Last Seen Near Dark.
The story told by this undermined
woman is regarded as most important
Miss Arnold, several hours earlier hao
told a girl friend she met after pur-
chasing a book at Brentano's that she
was going to walk home. II was her
habit to walk through the park, and
1t Is believed by her family and friends
that she attempted to take this walk
after nightfall, that she was attacked
and murdered and her body disposed or
Almost anything can happen In Cen
tral Park after dark" said Mr. Keith
"On the night of Miss Arnold's disap-
pearance the lakes in the park froze.
Since that time the water has frozen
once or twice, but at present there IS
no ice.
Ge4 n Tip from Buffalo.
Among the letters and kilograms re-
ceived at the Arnold home was letter
from Buffalo which is regarded so i'm
portant that the police of that city
have been asked to investigate The
letter reads:
"Mr. Arnold-Thair is lady here.
She is sick In bed. She is insain. Come
and see."
The letter was not signed, but the
name of the Muffalo Hospital was
given, and the police there are investi-
eating.
In a cablegram received from Flor
ence, Italy. yesterday 1t was stated that
George S. Griscom. Mrs. Griscom and
George S. Griscom. jr. sailed from
Genoa on Saturday for New York on
the North German Lloyd steamship
Berlin. They had been in Florence
since December IS.
Among the flood of letters and re-
ports that has poured into the Arnold
home from all parts of the country
since Miss Dorothys disappearance
there are today two to which Mr.
Arnold's legal advisers attach some
weight. One from Carsonville, Mich,
is to the effect that a young woman
whose appearance comedies in many re-
spects with the description OF Miss
Arnold registered at hotel there last
Tuesday as Miss Jennie Williams, New
York. The report is that the young
woman came to Carsonville from De-
troit and remained in her room dur
ing the afternoon, leaving the town at
night. Her destination could not be
learned. The other was the one from
Buffalo referred to.