The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1911-01-30
Grief Stricken F a tn er
Makes First Detailed
Statement.
N 0 so L u TION
HAS BEEN FOUND
Family Completely in Dark as
to Why Dorothy Arnold Left
Her Home--Every Clue Fol
lowed, and All Result in
Failure - Mother Made
III by Sorrow.

Special to The Times Dispatch
New York, january 2?.--t'rancis H.
Arnold, head of the importing house Of
+, Il. Arnold & Co, whose daughter,
Dorothy, has been missing from her
home, los East Seventy ninth street,
since the afternoon of December II,
last, gave out for the first ';na mis-
afternoon the detailed story OF the
searchuthat has been made on Two con.
tincnts for his missing dauSntcr John
:. Keith, Of the law firm OF Caravan Il
Armstrong. told the story for Mr.. ar
mold. WHO. 1t was explained IS so
overwhelmed with grief. that he MAS
not able to undertake the task
Mr. Keith told how the represent
taiives Of the family had gone to
Lloyd 5. Griscom, former Ambassador
10 Italy. and from him learn5l now 10
get In touch with George s. Griscom
Jr., OF Pittsburg, a relative or his and
4 friend Of Miss Arnold, how tn, best
detectives that could be employed had
searched hospitals, retreats and Other
places: how he had appliei to tho girl
friends Of the missing girl Tor assist
ance; how theory after theor,- was set
aside through elimination. how three
other young men, besides MIR. Girls .om
had been called upon FOR Information
as to the missing girl. ,nI iinally, a
direct statement that MIS-. Arnold The
1hiSSiiS SlTt TlOlHeI, nau lett the city
two or three wcaks ago, Il woman
broken in health through worry over
her daughters fate, ana not because
as has been limited in some quarters
that she knew the whereabouts of her
daughter and had gone 10 ner side
Mr.. Keith, in giving ont the dc.ailet
history of the case, saiu that nothing
was withheld and that 10 member of
the Arnold family, th,ir inwycrs or
n y r. dnte I,
and arc still working on the case. have
the remotcst idea as to 4 single move
ment of Miss Arnold since she left
Rrcrtanos 7;cT:s@t.f1e afternoon OF Lee
cember 49,
Griscom Not Guilty.
AT tho Very start said Mr.. Keith
to the reporter, who met him at, the
Arnold home, II wish to sot straight
for once and all The connection, II
Griscom Jr.. with this l!nfor.urate
case. Miss Dorothy wa; acquainted
With George S. Grisconl, Jr.. Of Pitts
burg. There is no doubt ABOUT trat
she knew him Just as she knew many
other men whom she numbered among
her friends.
Besides, Mr.. Griscom. nc invcsti-
gated don't like that word .nvcsti-
CATION very much, think Looked up
might be better-tha friendship OF
three other men friends OF Miss Ar
mold. These four We're the only ones
whose acquaintance win Miss Dorothy
was considered wo-th invcstigating
and in each case the man was able to
prove his absolute innocence OF any
knowledge OF the disappearance of the
young woman or OF her present where
abouts II She is still alive
LAS soon as Miss Arnold disap-
peared we Immediately started an in
vestigation The GrsL thin; wn did
vas to make most thorough search
of every hospital enl al Other instr
tutions to which she mignt have been
taken had she heen iliiurci or taken
suddenly i'll. She was in none os those
places, and our next move was 10 look
into her friendships in the nope OF
finding a clue how 10 work We nrst
questioned two men here in New YORK
and they were able to prove that they
were as ignorant as we as to the man
ner OF her going away. After salts
flying ourselves that these two men
knew nothing. NC next got in ,olcn
with Miss Dorothy's girl ana young
women friends. OF whom she nad a
great many in New York 1t was
from one of these young women
friends that we learned that Mr.. Grls-
com was a friend OF Miss Dorothy
Sought Out In Europe.
I'VE learned that She had seen Inn
the latter part of last October, ana
that he had sailed for Europe Oh NO
vember 80 last. Miss ijorotav had
seen Mr.. Griscom for the last time,
our investigation showed. about .Mo
weeks before he sailed. and from what
her friends told us, and this snforma-
ton came to them from Miss Dorothy
We had every reason to believe that
the girl did not know where in Europe
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