The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-01-31
CAN'T Be FOUND
The Mysterious Disappearance Of a
Young Weman ia New Yerk.
PRETTY and RICH Girl

| PRETTY and RICH Girl.
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Family Convinced She Had No Love,
Affair and That She Is .Alive-EV-
erything That Money Can Do and
Brains Suggest Have Been Dome
in Hunt.
Seven weeks ago last Monday Dor
| othy H. c.. Arnold, the beautiful
daughter Of Francis R. Arnold, q.
millionaire Importer Of perfumes in.
New York, aad a niece Of the late.
Rufus H. Peckham, Associate Justice
Of the United States Supreme Court,
bought a novel at Brentano's, in
Fifth avenue, that city.
From that moment no news Of her
has reached .ner family. She disap-
peared as completely as though the
earth had swallowed her, and though
both the Pinkertons and the Central
Office detectives have searched for
her everywhere no trace has been
found.
! Miss Arnold's aged parents, her
two brothers and her sister, are
heartbroken over the mystery. They
have assured themselves in the most
positive way that no tomance att
taches to the vanishing Of Dorothy,
and they and those whom they have
consulted fear that some tragic crime
lies behind she disappearance Of the
girl. 81
For six weeks Mr.. Arnold, who is
seventy-three years old, refused to
allow. a general alarm to be sent, out
for his. daughter. He hoped against
hope that she would announce her.
self to him in some way, and he told
I his advisers that his riches were at
their helping If they would find her
without the publicity which, he
feared, might lead to unpleasant no.
toriety for the family.
But Deputy Police Commissioners
Flynn and former Assistant District
Attorney Francis P. Garvan, Mr.t
Arnold's counsel, persuaded the aged
father that the only remaining hope
lay in the publication CT the story Of
her disappearance. They also urged
the reproduction broadcast Of her
photograph. ss5.
Mr. Arnold was brought around
with difficulty. With tears in his !.
eyes he begged Mr.. Garyanet to think
Of some other way than publicity.
Money, he assured his counsel, meant
nothing: He would willingly spend
all he possessed in finding his child.
he said.
lMr. Arnold is so heartbroken over
the mystery that he has been unable
to attend to his business since the
day she left home. Mrs. Arnold,
who was Miss Samuel, Is bowed
with grief, for she was the last OF
1.-THE family to see Dorothy and speak
with her.
1T was around 1880 on the morn
ing of Dec. IL that Miss Arnold left
her home, No. 10S East Seventy
ninth street. She told her mother
she was going downtown to pick out
an evening gown for the approach
ing holiday festivities.
!. ''I'll go with you," said Mrs. Ar
mold, but her daughter, kissing Mrs.
Arnold softly, answered:
"No, mother, don't bother. II I
see anything really think want to
get I'll telephone you, and you can
come down and look It over. But
you don't feel just right, and it's no
use going to the trouble Of coming
with me. I mightn't see thing 1
want to wear"
With another kiss they parted and
from that moment Mrs. Arnold has
never seen her child. When Dor
othy did not appear home for dim
ner the family became alarmed, for
though she was twenty-five years old
and college graduate she had never
absented herself from home for a
single meal without letting her
mother, who is somewhat cf an in
valid, know just where she was go
ing to be, when she would be home
and why she wished to stay out.
John R. Arnold, a brother, ar
rived from Europe Saturday. He
knew nothing but the bare fact that
his sister was missing, and inquired
eagerly for details. 1t came out
through. counsel for tl.a family this
afternoon, that Mr.. arnold had
: broken down under the strain and Is
being kept in seclus:on with friends
out of town.
Circulars reproducing three OF
Miss Arnold's latest photographs,
and giving a minute description OF
her appearance, were mailed to ev-
cry police, town marshal and de-
tective agency In the United States
aud Canada, with the offer OF q re-
ward of $1,000 for information lead
ing to her recovery.