New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-06
ELSIE NICHOLAS FOUND
AND HELD FOR FAMILY
Senator Daniels's Niece Had
Been Missing Since March rs,
When Police Began Search.
GIVES NO EXPLANATION
Police Say She Was Intoxicated
in Hallway, and That She De-
MED Identity, Disclosed by
Newspaper Clippings.

A.. Elsie Nicholas, seventeen years OLD,
and niece of the late United States Sem
ator Daniels, was found in hallway in
West 116th street late on Saturday
night. clearing up a disappearance mys-
terv second in Importance only to that
~ Dorothy Arnold. She was arraigned
before MAGISTRATE Herbert in the Har-
lem court yesterday on charge OF in
toxication and sent 70 a home for safe
keeping until her family could be heard
from.
The girl presented d pitiful spectacle
when she was taken into court yester-
day morning. She is slight, only five
feet tall. and looked gaunt and haggard.
Her aunt, who went to the station house
TO see her. could not suppress cry OF
amazement at the change that had taken
place. Both before and after the court
proceedings the girl would talk little of
herself and would not utter word
about her experiences since she left her
aunt's home on the morning of March 70.
Elsie Nicholas came to New York early
IN the year from Washington. Her
home was in Winchester. Va. where her
people are prominent socially. being re-
lated TO many fine Southern families.
An uncle, Joseph Warwick. was her host
IN Washington UP TO the time she came
20 this city to become a nurse. She
Entered the Roosevelt Hospital School
for Nurses, and lived with her aunt, at
No. rs West 105th street.
On the night of March 10, when Miss
Nicholas failed to return home, the aunt
went 10 the West Tooth street police sta
ton and reported the fact. a general
alarm was sent out. Every effort how
ever, was made to conceal both the girls
identity and that Of her relatives. When
q month had passed and no trace of the
Young woman had been found Mr.. War
wick. the uncle, again had the New
York police notified through the police
headquarters at Washington, with the
same Instructions as to secrecy.
Patrolman James Wynne, Of the West
125th street station, was going through
West 10th street late on Saturday
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way at No 31S. where he found Miss
Nicholas lying on the floor near the
stairway. The girl had knocked at the
door Of a woman lodger a few minutes
nrevious. and said that she was i'll. Her
intoxication was so evident, il was said,
that instead OF taking her in the woman
waited until the patrolman appeared.
Miss Nicholas was picked up and taken
10 the station house. where search OF
her clothes gave the first clew 10 her
identity. There were quantities of clip
pings from newspapers in her pockets
describing the search that was being
carried on. for her. When questioned
about them she denied at first that she
was Miss Nicholas, but later broke down
and confessed.
During the brief examination in court
yesterday it did not develop where she
had spent the time since she disappeared
from her aunt's home. 1t was said she
had lived in several places in Manhattan
and Brooklyn. Her hearing before Mag
istrate Herbert. before he turned her
over " INT piObdbiplI piliNtis 'SldDiiSitu
little moro than her identity. For the
last few days she had been staying at a
house in West 10th street, and her
whereabouts would have remained a
mystery some time longer had she not
late on Saturday night entered the hall
way where she was found, accompanied
by young man. The noise they made
first drew attention to the girls presence
there. The house in which she had been
living is believed TO have been bat a few
doors away.
Miss Nicholas broke down in court
under Magistrate Herber.'s examination
and wept during the time -" was there.
She was turned over 10 probation off,
Ger, Mrs. Carrie McCauley, who will have
her in charge until the arrival Of in
st}uctions from her family.