New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-25
Condensed Milk Manufacturer
Names Those Who, He Says,
Took Child from Jer.
Sey Sanatorium.
WIDE SEARCH BEING MADE
Wife of Wealthy Chewing Gum
Maker and Her Nieces
Among Those Blamed
by Father for Girls
Disappearance.

! 0iSdPPcdI duCc.
| Gail Borden. whose seventeen year.
old daughter. Ramona, was taken away
! from DR.. w. &. Adanlss sanatorum at
| Pompton Lakes by several women in
an automobile Wednesday. declared
| last night that no real clew to her
whereabouts had yet been found and
| that he would spare no expense IN get
| ting her back and running down her
| 'abductors.' Mr. Borden was seen in
| his room at the Hotel Manhattan, and
was distracted over his daughters dis
! appearance.
He was inclined to believe she was
in this city, he said, in the company of
| several women whom he named. who
had exerted peculiar influence over
her ever since she went to private
| school i'm Engleside, Conn, two years
ago. Since that time her mind had
been turned against him, he said, and
he was inclined TO believe that these
women had influenced her in that re-
| spect That the same women visited
her at the Pompton institution and took
her away was his opinion.
| He said the women were Mrs. Helen
Seldom White. of Washington and
| Cleveland, the wife of a wealthy chew
ing gum manufacturer: her two neces.
Gladys and Violet Seldom. and Mrs.
r. A. Becke. of No. s77 ST Marks
Place, Brooklyn.
Mr.. Borden formally notified Police
Headquarters last night of his daugh-
ter's disappearance. and asked that a
fgeneral alarm be sent ont for her. He
has also retained a private detective
| agency on the case, he said.
Il shall try every means in my power
To get her back" he said. and spare
no expense to thar end. I believe she
is in company with these women some
where I'm this city, perhaps along the
Great White Way. think they would
probably bring her here. | don't know
where else 10 look for her just now.
She has been with these women before,
4 here and in Washington, but ] UNDER
stand they are not i'm Washington at
the present time. She has known them
for two years. since she vas at school
in Connecticut. Since that time her
mind seems To have turned against ME.
! am at a loss 20 explain the motive
they have in getting her away
Asked if his wife. Mrs. Helen Walk
Borden. who lives ir Los Angeles and
is separated from her husband. knew
Mrs. White, he said:
Yes. they know each other. but do
not believe they arc on friendly terms
| do not believe my wife had anything
to do with the plot to get Ramona away
from the sanatorium.'
1t was suggested that his daughter
might have sailed for Europe. There
was report Yesterday that a girl an
swering her description had taken pas
sage on the steamer Cincinnati Mr..
Borden said he had sent wireless
message TO the outgoing steamer for a
better description of the girl mentioned.
While he did not believe his daughter
had sufficient money on hand TO pay
her way TO Europe, he said that Mrs.
White was amply supplied with money.
and there was a possibility she might
have taken the girl abroad
1t was learned that a recent visit
which the Borden girl. made to the
Washington womans home was not
approved by her father. Friends Of
the family intimated yesterday that
the girl ran away" from her father,
with whom she was staying at the
Manhattan Hotel at the time when
she went TO Washington.
That visit was the indirect cause OF
her being placed in DR.. Adams's sana-
ltorium it was said The father
her back TO New York. She was in a
nervous state, and DR.. Parker. who
was called in TO examine her. advised
that she be taken TO a sanatorium Tor
a rest, 1t was said.
The persistent statements by persons
at the Pompton Lakes Sanatorium yes
! terday, who said they had authority TO
answer all inquiries about the Borden
girl. that she had returned TO the in
| stitution and there was really no mys-
terry in the affair. only tended to en-
phasize the peculiar elements In the
case. Particularly was this so when
DR.. Adams contradicted all such state
ments last night and frankly acknowl
edged that the girl had not come back.
Institutions Head Indifferent.
The Borden girl Is not here he
said. and don't know where she is.
and 7 don't care whether she comes
back
Despite the estrangement of the
girls parents and the Borden family
trouble. said to have been caused in
some degree because Of the inability OF
the father and mother to reconcile their
opinions as TO their daughters future
and education. the relatives here do not
believe Mrs. Borden was implicated in
any way in the kidnapping of the
girl. They lay IT entirely to the infiu-
.nce of outside relatives and but
ters-in." as a friend Of the family de-
scribed them.
They do not entertain the opinion.