The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-30
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ing on the case.
I'm the course of this investigation
we decided to call on all Miss Arnold s
classmates at Bryn MaWr ana otner
young women who know her well TOT
information of any particular man win
whom she might have been on specially
friendly terms. Mr.. Griscom was sug-
gested One girl was sure Dorothy hao
not heard from Mr.. Griscom for two
weeks before he went abroad he sdlleu
on November 8. 1910.
In those circumstances we did the
natural thing, we went TO tne pest
known Griscom in New York Mr.. Lloyd
C. Griscom. Lloyd Griscom said that
George Griscom was a distant relative
whom he had not seen in 20 years. he
was able to refer US, however, to an
aunt in Pittsburg and from her we
learned that George G. Griscom, Jr, was
in Florence, Italy, with his father ana
mother.
Had Friends in Florence.
ut happened that there were two
young women in Florence at that time,
with whom Dorothy had been very in
timate-almost as sisters might be- 80
we sent a cable to those young women
asking them to inquire of Mr.. Grlscom
for us what he might know of Dorothy
and to send us back word by cable if
he had anything important TO tell
What he had to tell was so unimport-
ant that they merely wrote MI Grls-
com was thereupon eliminated from the
case. No suspicion attaches to him
whatever.
1--WE have no theories left concluded
Mr. Keith. I'VE started with three
that it might be a love affair, discomfort
or ambition, or suicide. SO far as we
can see the theory of a love affair is
not indicated We are satisfied that
Miss Arnold did not set out to earn her
own living AS for suicide, we only
know that she seemed happy up to the
moment she left
Mr.. Keith denied that the family had
any reason to believe Miss Arnold was
In the habit of receiving letters from
abroad at the general delivery window
of the postomce.
A letter to which the family attached
some Importance has been received
from Buffalo. dated January 26. 1t had
been written from a hospital there. and
said:
"There is a lady here. She is sick in
bed. She is insane. Come and see.'
Griscon.s Sail for New York.
Florence, Italy, Jan 20.-The Girls
com family, George c. Griscom, Mrs
Griscom and George c. Griscom. jr-,
whose name has been brought into the
Arnold case in New York. sailed from
Genoa Saturday for New York on the
North German Lloyd steamship Ber-
lin. The family had been in Florence
as previously reported, till last Mon
day. when they left for Genoa.
Two days before the Griscoms got
here on December 16. a cablegram
was received here marked important
and CONFIDENTIAL 1t was signed
"Carvarmcon." (This is cable adj
dress for the law firm of Garvan &
Armstrong, who have been acting for
the Arnold family since Dorothy Ar
mold disappeared.)
The cablegram asked whether, the
Griscoms were staying at the Anglo
American hotel in Florence. 1t was
followed by another cablegram ad-
dressed directly to George c. Girls
com, jr.
This second cablegram was also
signed "Garvarmcon." When it was
delivered to Griscom. jr., he puzzled
for some time over the signature APP
parently unable to grasp who had sent
the cablegram. But the message it
self seemed to agitate Griscom seri-
ouSly. and after reading it again and
again he remarked to a companion:
"Arnold is making serious trouble
Last Monday, before the family left,
young man and yelled lady called
at the hotel where the Griscoms were
staying. and a long family conference
resulted. in which the visitors took
part. Before the visitors left the hotel
they seized two packages of letters in
the room of George c. Griscom, jr.,
and TOOK these letters away. w nat the
contents of the letters were or why they
were seized, is not known, nor can
the identity of the youth and the
yelled lady be ascertained.
Some Things Explained.
New York, Jan. 30.-The contents
of the Florence cablegram were made
known to John S. Keith, the attorney
who is associated with Garvin &
Armstrong and who has taken person
al charge of the mystery of Miss Ar
nolds disappearance. Mr.. Keith. who
had admitted that the family and he
had Intentionally misstated to the
newspapers the facts concerning the
Griscom episode, said that he could
offer no explanation of the reported
seizure of two packages of letters
from George S. Griscom's room. When
| asked who the youth and yelled lady
were. Mr.. Keith said they were John
w. Arnold, brother of Dorothy, and a
wiman friend of the family who hap
pened to be in Florence. Griscom s
name has been mentioned in the case
before. Mr.. Keith said the cablegram
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