Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-02-07
WAITS IN
VAIN To GREET
MISSING HE|REsS

one that was on the train was closely
s~crutinized.
Two. Newark society women on the
train were much embarrassed when
reporters flung questions at them and
asked when they had left Philadelphia.
When they had established their iden-
tity they left unmolested. The on
ductor of the train was asked II
Dorothy Arnold had boarded at Phila-
delphia. He answered: mo, we have
no theatrical people on this run"
NEW YORK, Feb. dorothy
Arnold has not been found. A police
report that the missing girl was on a
train which left Philadelphia at STA
this morning for this city proved to
be incorrect. Francis R. Arnold, the
girls father, and two detectives wsnt
to meet the train, but could find no
trace of Miss Arnold.
Deputy Commissioner Dougherty
practically confirmed the report that
Dorothy Arnold was found, saying,
when asked about 1t, that at is true;
1t looks good to u.s."
The Arnold family and Deputy Police
Commissioner Dougherty were in
formed a few days ago by a Pennsyl-
vania railroad conductor that he had
frequently seen a young woman who
answered Miss Arnold's description
boarding the 8:14 train at Philadelphia
for what he supposed were weekly
shopping trips to New York.
The conductor notified Mr.. Arnold
that he woul telegraph him when he
saw the young woman board the train
again. On the receipt of a message
today Mr.. Arnold n a detective went
to the station while another detective
went to the Manhattan Transfer, in
Jersey City. A search of the train
failed to reveal the missing heiress.
Dorothy Arnold disappeared from the
home of her father, Francis r, Arnold,
a wealthy importer on East Seventy
ninth street, on December IL, 1910, n
the first public announcement tina she
was missing was made at headquarters
the night of January %. Since that
time until now, according to the legal
representative of the Arnold family,
not n word a been received from
Miss Arnold, nor had the family been
able to find a single clue as to what
had become of her.
III the six weeks interval between
the day of her disappearance and the
I'uLlfc announcement of it private de.
tectIves, central office men and officers
in many cities searched in vain for the
Missing girl. Descriptions of Miss Ar
mold, together with her pictures, were
sTreao broadcast over the world. and
searches were made in every hospital,
private as well as public, on two con-
tiilents.
PHILADELPHIA, Feb. T. The
police authorities here say they knew
nothing of the presenc, of Dorothy
Arnold in this city and were surprised
when told that she had taken a train
from here for her home in New York.
The two leading detective agencies in
this city also declared that they had
no hand in the finding Of the long
missing girl
Al police headquarters it was said
that a report was received there last
night that Miss Arnold had been To-
Gated. but an investigation of the clue
resulted in a report by the detectives
that there was nothing in it. Miss
f-rneld is said to have departed from
the North Philadelphia station of the
Pennsylvania railroad. which is in The
outskirts of the city. n apparently
nobody there recognized her.
Captain Cameron, of the city detec-
tive bureau, when told o. the story
that Miss Arnold had left this city, said
That detectives last night found the
girl, who was said to be Miss Arnold.
and after a talk with her earned that
she was not the missing woman This
girl, Captain Cameron said today. ia
still in the city. He declined to make
public her name.