Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1911-02-19

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Such has been the rcsul, of New
/ YOKE search for Dorothy Arnold Of
/ los East soyonty-uinth street. And
such has been tho result Of the work
of tho police OF nearly every other
city OF the United States. FOR Dorothy
Arnolds disappearance did not long
remain q New York matter In the
"iiic, oi every chief uf police of the
country and Of Mexico and Canada
and O good many cities Of Europe
there nov is q printed folder which
bears 90, warning Missing with d
description o. the girl VINO cannot be
found
], was ou the morning Of December
2 mat Dorothy Arnold turned from
the telephone IN her home and called
60 her mother
J am going downtown" she said
~ see anything that IKE win
telephone you."
but shan not 20 with your" the
mother asked
"No you stay here Inuot tc gone
long
ucforo that Miss Arnold lad told
her mother that she did not believe
she would go down town, because II
friend with whom she had planned 70
60 shopping could not accompany her.
The mother again asked her dauRh-
ter n she should accompany her The
answer was In the negative Then the
girl left the house clad IN q shopping
dress six months old and although the
uay was Wlntry one without the fur
necKp.oCc to match the mum she car
ricd
Later IN the day the girl appeared
IN q bookstore. far below the shop
ping district bough, O. book when
from there TO % candy store and
then
Miss Arnold has not been seen since.
No tangible clew has been found
that would enable her father Francis
Arnold, the importer TO learn any
thing Of her Whereabouts, no word
mas come from her not even good
theory has been advanced to show
what has become Of the girl
In the days OF Sherlock Holmes.
when Doctor Watson would look with
astonishod cyes at his morphine. in
jecting contemporary, the other would
smile At the remarks Of marvellous"
and simply eNclaim.
IT Ii easy, my dear Watson--mere-
~ system Of deduction and elimina-
ton but Sherlock Holmes was only
character OF fiction. His cases
could be doctoTed 60 ~ the occasion in
the mind of the writer Somewhere
In the long chain Of mystery some
weak link would be constructed by the
creative hand, link that inevitably
would be discovered by the detective
This happens also many times in real
NE but now ana then, as the years
go by, there comes o case where every
link Of mystery Is equally strong and
capable Of keeping the solution Of the
case a captive. Such Il case Is the
dis6ppearance of Dorothy Arnold De
comher -, 1910
When q giri IL 20 years old, pretty.
attractive, wealthy, and Just out OF
college Il is n usual conclusion that
she either loves or Is loved And that
was The first thing that was invest!-
gated by the many detectives cm-
ployed In private by the father Of the
gil The detectives went 10 Bryn
Mawr They learned from the class
mates OF the E.rI that she was not in
love with anyone and that no one was
apparently IN love with Miss Arnold,
She knew three men. Perhaps
The detectives started AZ once on
the clcw The fact that the girl
bought a box Of candy and novel
the Rirish attributes OF a railroad trip
might indicate that She intended
travelling Travelling might mean an
c,opemUt There was am element Of
hope.
But that faded. Two Of the men
w,r, On New YORK They were inter
viowod. They accounted for every mo-
mont Of the time before and after the
disoppoaranc, OF the girl. Another
vas iu Florence Italy, with his moth
en- a brother Of Miss Arnold booked
passNg, to Italy lie returned a few
days ago The man lu Florence knew
nothing Of her whereabouts
But the detectives did learn one.
thing from those classmates Of the
girl who disappeared. rhey learned
that instead of the friend, II was Miss
Arnold herself who broke the engage.
mont TO 90 downtown the day she dis
appeared That was a discoycry-but|
10 only made things worse.
Pursuing the process OF elimination.
70 might he possible that the girl ran
away 70 90 on IN, stage Girls often
do that But Miss Arnold was not
thcaterFocT
Perhaps she might have committed
suicide perhaps she might have
thrown herself from pier into the
ocean. Hut-therc Is always that
word but In the Arnold case-Miss
Arnold was not of a gloomy disposl-
ton, she Uas healthy and normal and
happy she had had no quarrels. she
had everything fho desired there was
nothing 20 cause her to desire 20 end |
her NE
Perhaps she might have been klled |
Tor robbery Rut she only had $40 |
whom she left home. and no trace Of |
her body has been found
There Is one person IN the Arnold |
case who believes the girl is dead. |
That person is the girls father and |
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