New-York tribune., 1911-01-31
MISS ARNOLD VISITED
A TOURIST AGENCY
Inquired About Trips to Cuba and
West Indies on Day She
Disappeared.
A CLEW PROVES MISLEADING
Time of Visit to Store Near Park
Noon, Not Evening-Story OF
Mail at General Delivery
Window Confirmed.

II was learned Yesterday that young
woman answering in every particular
the description Of Miss Dorothy H. -
Arnold spent close TO half an hour IN
III. office of the RAYMOND & Whitcoinp
Tours Agency on Fifth avenue next
door to Brentano's bookstore. on the
afternoon Of December u. the day she
disappeared.
The girl asked Herbert J. Carroll. or
the steamship ticket department or that
Office about rates ana accommodation
IA various points in the West Indies. ana
though she finally went out without buy
ing any transportation she carried with
her half a dozen pamphlets descr,pins
the company's tours to Cuba. Bermuda
and the Bahamas
From the sales slips of the Park q
1'iIford store near the 5oth street snd
Fifth avenue entrance 10 Central PARK
II was established that the purchase OF
candy which Miss Arnold made there
was at or very near ~ o'clock noon,
or near , o'clock in the afternoon
Second Deputy Police Commissioners
Flynn was closeted with John S. Keith.
attorney for the Arnolds, for an hour
Yesterday afternoon. and at the end OF
the interview Mr.. Keith said that the
Central Park lake would be dragged by
,rivate detectives this morning.
Commissioner Flynn said he saw no
reason tc change the statement he made
about the case al the end Of last week
"I think that the girl IS unharmed and
will turn up he said.
The whereabouts of Mrs r. r. Arnold,
the mother of the missing girl. promised
Yesterday to become as much mystery
as is the case of her daughter. when Mr..
Keith and the other lawyers connected
with the case refused to deny that Mrs.
Arnold was the aged and heavily veiled
woman who was mentioned in Italian
dispatches as having visited George S.
Griscom, jr., I'm Florence. 10 find out
whether he could offer any explanation
for Miss Arnod's sudden disappearance.
Got Letters at General Delivery.
The dispute as to whether Miss Arnold
had received letters at the general de-
livery window Of tho postofice a fact
which had been previously denied by
Mr.. Keith and by Mr.. Arnold, the girls
father. was finally settled yesterday by
the admission of the lawyer that he had
found some envelopes in her room which
were addressed to her at the general
delivery instead Of at her home.
"These were rejected manuscripts"
Mr.. Keith explained yesterday. and she
got them there because her brother had
been twitting her because her stories
were not accepted"
The postoffice inspection division is
investigating the receipt of general de-
livery mail by the missing girl. POST
master Morgan confirmed this yesterday,
and added that the investigation so far
showed that she had received several
such letters, and as recollected by the
general delivery clerk, the letters bore
foreign stamps.
The theory of her father and of some
of her friends that Miss Arnold had been
waylaid in Central Park. which seemed
TO have been supported by the belated
testimony of the woman who told the
family she had seen the girl in the Park
& Tilford store at about 5 o'clock on
the afternoon OF December ~, was some
what exploded by the statements OF the
store employees who recollect distinctly
that her purchase OH that day was made
at or close to noon
Charles Ross. manager of the store, said
that Mr.. Keith had called there several
weeks ago, and had been satisfied by the
evidence they showed him thar the pur-
chase was made at about noon though
on Sunday the lawyer declared his belief
i'm the story told by a woman, whose
name he declined to give out, that she
had seen Miss Arnold making the candy
purchase at o'clock
The two salesgirls who look after the
candy counter said yesterday that they
knew Miss Arnold well. Their counter
faces the front door of the store. where
they see plainly every one who comes in.
1T was her habit" said one OF them
Yesterday, ito buy candy about ) O'Clock
in the afternoon, apparently when she
was on her way home. and | recollect
particularly that on the day she dsap.
peared she came in here about noon"
In addition to the girls recollection
the time of the sale was further estab.
Mshed by the sales slip. which showed BY
its number that II must have been about
Continued on third paf.