Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-04-26
Millionaire Reported
to Have alked
with 'Kidnapers' in
Boston Hotel.
SLEUTHS TRACED PARTY
THERE FROM NEW HAVEN
Heiress Said to Be Posing as
Maid With Mrs. White and
Mrs. Backe-Ready to Sail
Today?

Mrs. Backe-Ready to Sail
Today?
BOSTON, April 26-The search for
Romona Borden, the 17-year-old
daughter of the New York million
aire, was transferred to this city to-
day, following information that the
girl, with two women companions,
had been located at Back Bay hotel.
Miss Borden's father. Gail Borden.
arrived from New York at I O'clock
this morning and went at once to the
Essex Hotel. where he registered as
&c. Borden, Los Angeles A few
minutes later he left the hotel in the
company of two detectives. For the
next few hours the movements of
the party were secret. but II was in
timated at the hotel that they had
gone for a conference with the miss
| ing girl and her friends.
1t was stated that the supposed
! whereabouts of the girl had been
made known through private sources
and not by the detectives who were
engaged by Mr. Borden a day or two
after she disappeared from a sani-
| Wednesday, A member of Bordens
party said:
I'VE have learned that Miss Bor-
den is not at the Vendome. as first
reports had It, but we have reason
to believe that she is in this vicinity.
"Mr. Borden has now gone out to
keep an appointment, the nature of
which I cannot disclose. He was ac-
latl
York detectives / expect that he
will return late this afternoon More
than this | cannot say at this time.
Mr.. Borden is hopeful and | believe
| he has good reason to be. that he
will soon be in the company of his
| daughter.
Mr.. Borden had Intended to go to
Baltimore today to hee his mother,
who is seriously ILL., His plans were
changed suddenly"
NEW YORK, April 2s.--Rumors
were received in this city of the
presence of the missing girl and her
friends In several places yesterday.
Apparent traces of the party were
found in Atlantic City, Norfolk, Va.
Washington. New Haven. and even
at Centre Island, the summer home
of Mrs. White. at Oyster Bay. The
most plausible came from New
Haven.
! At the latter city two women and a
| girl drew up in front of the Taft
Hotel late Wednesday night in a
large touring car The two women
registered as Mrs. M. A. Backe. of
Brooklyn, and Mrs. w. j. White "and
maid" Mrs BaclIe and Mrs. White
We're heavily yelled as they entered
the hotel. but the young girl wore
nothing to conceal her features, ac-
cording to those who saw her
After writing their names the two
women and the girl were taken to
room 15 the situation causing COM
ment as the attendant remarked that
1t was strange that three persons
should occupy the same room, es-
pecially when one was registered as
maid The two women and the girl
remained in their room until almost
noon Thursday, when they left to
take the Bay State limited. evidently
for Boston. Mrs. White offered in
payment for the room a check on the
Nassau Trust Company, of Fulton
street, bTbOhlgi.
The two women and the girl had
several travelling bags with them, but
no trunks. The bags according to
the baggage-room attendant at the
Union station in New Haven were
checked TO Boston
Mrs. White has relatives in Boston
and it seems probable that the three
were bound for that city," said the
millionaire milk dealer. II have re-
ceived no word either directly or in-
directly from my daughter since she
disappeared from the sanitarium In
Pompton. n. j. This fact convinces
me that she Is either under restraint
or dominated by influences which
have entire possession of her.
"There is motive behind all this.
a motive which it may be hard to
conceive. My daughters absence has
nothing to do with a foolish prank
II cannot be that she is kept from me
for the purpose of financial gain to
others. Her mother is as sincerely
concerned for her safety and return
as 7 am There remains solely the
motive which cannot bear to harbor
in my mind"
While the Borden girl was in the
Hotel Navarro, this city, before her
disappearance, one of her companions
called on the telephone W. B. Ellison,
a. lawyer of 165 Broadway. New
York.
MIR. Ellison admitted to an Evening
Star reporter today that woman
had spoken to him from the Navarro
at the time in question, but he re-
fused to divulge her identity.
II am unable TO say anything about
the Borden matter" he insisted.
He is thought to represent either
Mrs Helen Sheldon White, wife OF
William J. White who is known as
"the Chclet King" or Mrs Marian
A. Backe, of Brooklyn.