Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-25
Scotland Yard and the
Other European
olice Seek Lost
Heiress.
FATHER DECLARES HE'LL
PROSECUTE KIDNAPERS
Mrs. White, He Says, Knows
Much of His Daughters
Whereabouts - Private De-
tectives Report Girl Found.

The multiplied myst cries of the dis
appearance in this city of Miss
Ramona Borden led her distracted
father. Gail Borden, multi-millionaire
condensed milk manufacturer to in
stitpte worldwide search for lser
today
Besides retaining the Burns Detec-
tive Agency, Mr.. Borden has ap-
pealed to the New York police for aid.
Scotland Yard and foreign police de-
partments will be asked to watch the
arrival of steamships upon which the
17-year-old girl and her ''kidnapers"
may have taken passage.
Detectives were sent to Atlantic
City. where 1t was reported Miss Bor-
den and her companions had been
seen. Other operatives were rushed
to Washington The captain of the
Cincinnati, which sailed yesterday for
Plymouth. Cherbourg and Hamburg.
was asked by wireless to describe
mysterious young woman who took
passage at the last moment and re-
fused to give her name.
report was current this afternoon
that Miss Romona Borden had been
found by detective agency employed
by Mr.. Borden. This report was not
verified, however
1t was said that the private de-
tectives are awaiting the fling of
formal charges against the girls al
legged ddnapers before disclosing her
| whereabouts
The New York police authorities re-
fused to instruct city detectives to
join in the search for Miss Borden
/, unless a warrant is issued either
charging waywardness or abduction.
The New Jersey authorities, they
said, had supervision of the case.
Mr. Borden, when informed of this,
said that he would probably decide
later today whether warrant should
be issued.
Father TO Prosecute
Il intend to get my daughter back
no matter what part of the world she
may have fled to and no matter what
Is said,' the milk magnate said to-
| day.
| Il believe, however, that my child
is in New York city or somewhere
close by at this minute. NV frst
concern Is to recover her Then
will proceed at law against whoever
was responsible for her being taken
out of my custody"
1t Is not the first time detectives
have sought Miss Borden. Last week.
after long game of hide-and seek
with men from a Washington agency,
she was taken from StoneleIgh Court,
a fashionable apartment house in the
capital where she had been STAYING
with Mrs. Helen Seldom White, the
wife of William J. White, millionaire
chewing gum manufacturer. and her
nieces, Violet and Gladys Sheldon
After her Washington escapade. the
girl was taken to the w. c. Adams
Sanitarium at Pompton Lake, from
which she was kidnapped" by two
women O Wednesday and brought In
an autor sobile to the Navarro Hotel,
this city. When she walked out OF
the hotel and turned from Broad
street down Green, she vanished,
without leaving the slightest clew by
which to trace her.
But her disappearance was further
complicated yesterday by deliber-
ately plotted ruse on the part of en-
plosees at the Pompton sanitarium to
prove that she had returned the night
before.
The sanitarum employees explained
how she had returned after she had
dined with her friends and had girl
pose as Miss Borden. This was a
fake" apparently designed to dis
ourage publicity, although even on
that supposition II was a remarkable
procedure for a supposedly legitimate
institution. DR.. Adams admitted last
night that the girl was not there and
, said: II don't know where she is and
. don't care whether she comes
| back.
Borden. worn with worry and sleeps
} lessness, is personally supervising the
| search.
"Those | am most anxious to ques-
ton concerning my daughters d'sap-
pearance," he explained, ARE Mrs.
White and Mrs Marion A. Backe. the
wife of T. A. Backe, an automobile
, dealer. of 677 St Marks place, Brook
lyn
my daughter was with Mrs. White
and her nieces. Gladys and Violet Sell
don. in Washington last week just be-
fore she went into the Pompton Lake
sanitarium. Mrs. Backe Is an inti-
mate friend of Mrs. White, and
through Mrs. White is friend of my
daughter. I understand that a suit
case in the automobile in which my
daughter left the sanitarium bore the
initials M. A. B. Those are Mrs
Backes initials. One of the two
women in the machine answered the
| of Mrs Rapko
1T do not think Mrs. White was in