Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1911-01-28
Mystery Of Missing Heir
eSs Near Solution.
SleuthS Called OIL.
SHE HAD SECRET LOVE
AFFAIR, FRIENDS ADMIT
Family Insists That She Never
Left Home Voluntarily.
Romance Secuted.

NEW YORK, Jan. ss.--Firm IN the
belief that Miss Dorothy H. C. Arnold
Is alive and will return to the home OF
her millionaire father, Francis r.
Arnold, 10S East Seventy-ninth street.
perhaps today. certainly within few
days, Deputy Commissioner Flynn has
withdrawn from the case practically
and the city detectives are no longer
actively engaged in searching for tho
heiress. missing for forty-seven days.
Just what Commissioner Flynn bases
this belief on he will not say. but il
Is known that clues discovered by
central Office men lead TO the com
clusion that the young woman had a
love affair. which she kept secret not
only from her family, but from her
most intimate friends.
Scout story OF RANSOM.
Both the police and the lawyers
directing the search scout the theory
that Miss Arnold is held for ram
som. John s. Keith, Of Mr.. Arnold's
legal advisers, asserted his belief to-
day that the letters were written by
blackmailers. II they were taken seri-
ously, he said. the searohers would
face the untenable theory that Miss
Arnold was held for ransom by four
different persons or more. Mr.. Keith
was disinclined also to credit the re-
puted theory of the police that Miss
Arnold would return home shortly.
There were no fresh clues In the case
he said, nor was there anything upon
which to base such a theory, so far as
he knew.
The trip of John Arnold. the missing
girls brother, to Europe, which was
made soon after Miss Arnold disap-
peared, had nothing to do with the
search. Mr.. Keith declared.
The young man went abroad in the
interest of his fathers business, the
In their Investigations, carried on
since December II, the day Miss Ar
mold disappeared, detectives made the
discovery that Miss Dorothy had been
receiving letters at the general de-
livery window of the postoffice This
to the mind of the detectives and the
deputy commissioner indicated that She
had some kind of clandestine corre-
spondence.
Told of C1andestine Corrsspondence.
When Mr.. Arnold, the father, was
asked about this he admitted such u
thing was possible. but said 1t was
highly improbable. Mr.. Arnold holds to
the belief that his daughter is dead.
that she was attacked in the park on
the afternoon of December IL, after she
had started to walk home from DOWN
town stores. Nothing can convince
him or his wife or other members OF
the household that she went volun-
tarily from home.
Up to today 1t was generally sup
posed Miss Arnold was last seen after
she bought book at Brentano's. when
she spoke to a girl friend. Now 1t 10
learned, however, that girl friend ana
the friends mother encountered her
later on Broadway and she told them
she had been in Macy's. The girl friend
asked her what she wanted for Christ
mas and Miss Arnold replied, laughing:
why book, of course"
In his argument that his daughter
was attacked in the park. Mr.. Arnold
said:
1T was my daughters habit to wsik
started UP that walk between East
drive and Fifth avenue. which is dark
and unfrequented early on a winters
afternoon, or she might have taken
the walk by the reserv Dir. There 1t
would have been an oasy matter to ct
tack her. She might have heen gagged
--atrocious things do happen. II
Impossible, Say Police. t
1.-THE police say such a thing would
be impossible. They won't admit tsey
were so lax in patrolling the park"
There was an unconfrmed story at
police headquarters this morning ,hst
Miss Arnold had neen seen in New
York within the last if.aen days. Just
where this information came from the
police were guarding The same in
formant told the police that when Mss
Arnold fled from home she was not
alone.
John s. Keith and Garvan & Arn-
strong, counsel for the Arnold family
do not agree with Commissioner Flynn
and his men that Miss Arnold had some
secret attachment and was prompted
by a romance to leave home. They
believe the girl either IS dead, suffer
ing from aphasia or held prisoner for