The Mathews journal. (Mathews C.H. [Court House]) 1903-1937, 1911-03-02
GIRL IN RICHMOND
NOT MISS ARNOLD

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Though the police are frank 10
admit that there rs something i'm
tho ruuOr that Dorothy Arnold,
the missing New York heircSS. Is
in this city, which they do not un-
Sierstand, they are inclined TO look
nEson the runor with "A kind of 10
-Cosc SkcptiCisIn. I'm other words,
allc police do not believe that Miss
Arnold Is here. No one connected
with the Police Department has
received a word of official infOr-
NATION: no kilograms have been
received nor any long distance
nlessageS. and Major Werner,
chief OF the department, believes
that the New York police would
have communicated with him
kong before now IL they had any
reason To believe that the miss
ing girl had come TO Richmond.
BUT for the last two or three days
strange letters and kilograms. sup
posed to have been sent by George
8. Griscom, whose name has been in
timately associated with that of Miss
Arnold. have been received here. All
the letters were addressed to post
office box 42I. and some Of them bore
the additional address Mrs. a. )
Bradley
A ]. Bradley is well known here
being secretary Of the Bradley Con-
structiOn. lie is unmarried. but his
private box at the city postoffice is
No. AL.
Above is a telegram received by Mr..
Bradley for the mysterious Mrs. A.
J. Bradley" this morning. II was un-
signed BAT " as probably sent by the
same man who has sent all the others.
According TO the request. Mr.. Bradley
went Immediately to the Jefferson Ho-
tel He knew nothing OF the Dorothy
Arnold rumor at that time. Reaching
the hotel shortly after 10 o'clock. he
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told by the clerk that no such person
was at the hotel.
When l walked into the hotel.
said Mr.. Bradley. the clerk asked me
81 1 had come TO meet Dorothy.
did not know what Dorothy he was
talking about. and I asked him what
he meant He said Dorothy Arnold.
or course. Haven't YOU heard that
she was in Richmond? Haven't Ycu
seen the morning paper: no. Then
look IL up. said the clerk"
The clerk then told me that IL
had been reported that the Arnold
girl had come to Richmond. and that
everyone thought that her friends
were sending her mail and telegra ms
IN my care. or course, the whole
thing is absurd. / have never seen the
girl nor any member Of her lamtiy.
When seen later by a represen tative
OF The Journal. Mr.. Bradley declared
that he was completely mystihed. He
Dorothy Arnold. and knew nothing OF
the -. A.. Truesdale." whom he was
tO~meet at the Jefferson this morning.
A< Bradley is inclined 20 believe
that Me telegram was intended for
someonSI else. Sometime ago there was
a Mrs. SradIey living here. ne said
whose maiA was constantly getting in
his box. re said he did not know
where this Mrs. Bradley had gone. AS
well as he could remember he thought
Fifth Street. The City Directory does
not show any person OF that name now
living on Fifth Street.
Not willing to take any chances
however, the police have called at al
the homes and establishments az
take refuge In only one place did
they find a girl who answered any de-
scrtption OF the missing heiress. But
after comparing this girl with pic
lures OF Miss Arnold IL was soon seen
that the clew was erroneous.
Message From New York
This girl gives her name as Flor
ence Garrabrandt. She says her peo-
pie live at Brookdale, y. J. The Eve
ming Journal early this morning re
cctved message from New York TO
the effect that a MT. Garrabrandt. OF
Brookdaie. " J.. had sent his daugh-
ter TO Richmond last December. His
daughter. Mr.. Garrabrandt said. had
been accompanied by her mother
The girl knew nothing. of course
Of the Information received by The
Evening Journal. nor did she know
anything about the current rumor that
Miss Arnold was thought 10 be here.
When she was seen by representa-
tive OF The Journal this morning she
freely admitted her Identity and gave
precisely the Information which The
Journal had received in the New York
telegram.
Reported nt Pine Bluff.
At one OF the homes visited by The
Journal representative IL was learned
that II handsomely dressed woman ac-
cOmpanied by young man about
week. They appeared to be wealthy
enc showed every evidence OF culture
their naes but saiS t d1e nGi lived g'Yi s
Pittssurg. For the last two months
the woman said. they had been at Pine
The mother wanted TO have a very
dangerous operation performed on her
daughter. The matron OF the home re-
fused TO allow IL in her home She
said that the girl had only one chance
In Eve hundred OF recovering from
such an operation. and she would not
Both mother and daughter then LETT.
saying they were going back to Pine
Bluh. They said they expected to re-
turn to Richmond. and in that event
would stop at that particular home"
Queer Case.
With the exception Of New York.
Miss Arnold is as likely TO be in
Richmond AS in any other place
Again. the idea. or statement. that
she may be here isn't altogether il
logical, as she has been reported 10
be IN about every other place in
America or Europe.
Dorothy Arnold disappeared from
her home, on West SeVenty-ninth
5treeh New York city, on December
IT was in the morning
~ s,c sano Sha was seen twice
time on~\f1fth Ave
ne. walking downtown. tS%ard Fiji
ieth Street. IT has been leakned that
he stopped once between those two
ross streets. and at Brentano's bought
book.