New-York tribune., 1911-01-31


that the woman who told the family Of
the ; o'clock purchase must have seen
her on some day before December j..
Mr.. Carroll. Of tho Raymond & Whit
comb agency. said that he had not been
approached on the case any oi the
lawyers or detectives hired 10y the Arnold
family. He did not know Miss Arnold
and so far as he knew she had never
been in the Office before
Visit to Ticket Agency.
when saw tire picture ~ Miss
Arnold in the papers, he said,
thought to myself Why. I've seen that
Girl before: then I recalled that in the
early part Of December ! was at work
ono dav at the Information desk. in the
absence OF the reCullr man. and that OH
fhat dav q giri canc IL ana mace eN-
r:.astive inquiries about cruise 10 th'
West Indies.
II took particular notice of her because
she was beautiful and striking. and had
black muT with white points ana
noted with some surprise that She "a"
No corresponding neck fur ON. l'
seemed rather strange that girl shouiu
wear such an apparently eXpensiN" lu'-
niece md not have the complete SET
Tho dav I worked on the information
desk was December T.. looked up
that point after ! had noted MISS At
nold.s picture in the newspapers out As
she didn't buy any transportation J dis
missed the affair from my mind as OF
no consequence"
Mr.. Carroll added that when tho
Young woman left the Office she took
naIf a dozen pamphlets descriptive OF
the company's cruises in the West In
dies and of various hotels in Cuba and
Bermuda.
Mr.. Keith was averse to being asked
IN anv way about the movements OF
Mrs. Arnold, the missing girls mother
/ since the disappearance Of her daughter.
He refused 10 deny the report that she
/ had gone 10 Europe with John W. Ar
mold TO see Mr.. Griscom. adding that Mr..
Arnold, the girls father. did not want
Mr.. Griscd&'s name mentioned. because
/ he feared a lawsuit.
/ The father still clings to tho theory
I that his daughter was wayaid and muir
dered while walking home through Cen
tral Park late in the afternoon or De
cenber l.. and insists that he never ex-
| poets 70 see her alive again.
Both Mr.. Arnold and Mr.. Keith af-
/ fected 10 believe absolutely the story Of
the woman who telephoned them on
/ Sunday that che had seen Miss Dorothy
[ in the Park & Tilford store at > o'clock
| in the afternoon, though they had the
! report Of the store manager that the
! purchase Of candy was made at noon.
Friend Sure OF Girls Death.
Miss Elizabeth Henry the girl whose
name appeared SO frequently in Miss
/ Arnolds date book likewise took mp
the woman's story as proof that the
missing girl was homeward bound at
that hour. and conveniently near the en-
/ trance to Central Park
This makes IL all the more certain in
my mind" said Miss Henry yesterdaY.
that she walked toward her home
/ through Central Park. and in the dark
ness was attacked there. Perhaps she
/ sat down 10 rest on a. bench there. ard
was chloroformed there and her body
| thrown int, the lake
| Mr.. Arnold was equally insistent on
! that theory, and even when ii was ex-
! planned to him that the park lake was
frozen on December l., he advanced the
ides that the men who killed his daugh-
ter might have chopped a hole in the
/ ice md concealed her body in that way.
There was no skating in Central Park
until December II. or five days after the
! disappearance OF Mss Arnold but Off
cials Of the Park Department said yes
bility that there could be any truth in
the theory that her body was under
! the ice
As early as December 10 the tempera e.
ture was Il degrees. On the 11th it was
I 20. and from that time until tie 18th il
/ was never above 10 degrees. On Deem
/ Der 12. the officials say. the ice was at
/ least three inches thick. and far too heavy
/ for her 10 have broken through had shs
| fallen. The depth OF the water around
the edges Of the park lake is not more
I than foot or two, and for DAYS. both
( before and after December 12. guards and
1 scrapors were az work every dav re-
spectively keeping would-be skaters of
/ the ice and preparing fl for them at d
/ later date.
/ Mr.. Keith said late yesterday that the
story that Miss Arnold was in a Buffalo
/ hospital had been Investigated and found
10 be grouudless.
The private detectives employed by
( the lawyers on the case. it was learned.
have been confning their recent efforts
to a careful search Of all the hospitals
and private medical institutions they
could reach in Philadelphia Washing
ton and Boston.
one Of the missing girls friends who
asked that her name he kept ont Of the
story. explained that the fact that Miss
Arnold went away without much money
did not necessarily prohibit her from
taking any trip that she might have
contemplated.
Dorothy vas well known and we'll
liked al Brvn Mawr" explained her
friend. mot only by her own classmates
but by All those who were with her in
college. and II she called upor any one
Of. say. two hundred girls that knew