Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-27

Working on the theory that Miss
Arnold is the young woman who was
seen on a Pennsylvania ferryboat which
started from Cortlandt street at 1880
yesterday morning, In company with a
shabbily dressed man, and that she is
now in Philadelphia detectives in the
employ of Mr.. Arnold and men from
Central office hurried to that city to-
day.
That girl greatly resembling in
appearance Miss Arnold, but not
dressed as she was when she disap-
peared after purchasing a book at
Brentano's on December IL last, was
on this ferryboat with a man was told
to Garvan & Armstrong, of 40 Wall
street. the legal representatives of the
Arnold family. by a man who was on
the boat with the couple
philadelphia Clue Abandoned.
Following up this clue. detectives to-
day secured the Quaker City. Reluc-
tantly the searchers were forced to the
conclusion that the young woman seen
on the Pennsylvania ferryboat last
night was not Miss Arnold. Philadel-
phia was thoroughly ransacked, but to
no avail.
When Miss Arnold left home to go
shopping the day she disappeared she
wore totally different clothes from
those worn by the girl on the ferry.
with one exception, the muff, which
was the most expensive article she car
ried when she left home
1t was learned today that Miss Ar
mold had planned an elaborate enter
tainment to sixty of her Bryn Mawr
classmates on December Is. The en-
tertainment was to be In the form OF
tea party.
Mrs. Arnold has felt the shock OF
her daughters disappearance so keeniy
that she Is prostrated, and, to avoid
the nervous tension of the situation
at home, has gone to Lakewood or
some other resort for recuperation.
Rumors of Love Affair.
Stories are af1oat that Miss Arnold
was very friendly with a foreigner of
excellent If not noble family, and 1t Is
known that when her private desk
was searched. subsequent to her dis
appearance, a little bundle of letters
was found. indicating that she had
carried on for some time clandestine
correspondence with a man who is now
abroad.
The detectives who were employed by
the family were Immediately notified
of this discovery, and the records of
every outgoing steamer from the date
of Miss Arnold's vanishing we're care
fully searched. Moreover, the wireless
was called into service, and messages
were sent to every steamship so
equipped asking If Miss Arnold was
-
her.
Not single result followed this elab-
crate network of investigation. but at
the same time the Pinkertons were
asked to watch the man with whom
Miss Arnold had corresponded. Through
their foreign agencies this was done,
and the surveillance was carried so
far, it Is said, that the mans mail
was intercepted and examined, but
without result. This lead has been
abandoned.
1t was learned yesterday that the
father had given the police department.
more detailed explanation of the
circumstances surrounding his daugh-
ter's disappearance than he saw fit to
make public, and the rumor was that
this added information had to do with
some sort of quarrel between the miss
ing daughter and some other member
OF the family.
John S. Keith of the Garvan & Arm
strong firm, close friend of the Arnold
family. denied fatty that there had
ever been any such quarrel. and said
positively that Miss Dorothy's relations
with every member of the household
had been thoroughly amicable. There
has been absolutely no trouble in the
family" said Mr. Keith, land any story
to that effect is false. Miss Arnold was
girl OF sweet disposition. who was