The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1913-12-12
Police SCOur COney Island
For MCCann Girl.
NURSE GIRL SAW HEIRESS.
Says She Met Her In a Highly Nerv-
Gus Condition - Clerk Thinks He
Saw Her TeIephoning-Was Sub
ject to Despondency-Mss
Moulton Still Missing.

New York, Dec. 10.-The scene of
the search for the missing Jessie Nc
Cam has switched to Coney Island.
The girls father, together with the
squad of plain clothes men and police
men who are working in the case, Is
now making thorough search
throughout every rooming house and
restaurant along Surf avenue and
down the side streets of the deserted
summer resort. A clew which the po-
lice believe Is certain has been fur
nished by a nurse girl employed in
the house of a friend of the Mccain
family.
This nurse girl, who refused to give
over the phone that she had seen the
lost girl on Thursday, on Friday and
as late as yesterday morning at 10
o'clock.
81 met her first at noon on Thurs
day on the boardwalk at Brighton,
where 1 was wheeling the baby car
riage," said the girl. "She was nerv-
GUS and seemed to be terribly excited
about something. She wouldn't tell
me what it was l saw her again at
3 o'clock in the afternoon, nearer the
center of Coney Island. And 1 saw
her the next morning Friday) too"
Mr.. Mccain and the detectives made
a canvass of all the stores now open
at the island which contain public
telephone booths in the hopes of learn
ing who was this nurse who had tele-
phoned to him. He succeeded in get
ting a clew in the drug store Of Fred
erick Zellers on Surf avenue.
Reward offered.
In the shop was clerk named Ar
thur Effers, who related that young
and pretty girl had telephoned from
there. She was dressed in blue and
her hat had a tall orange plume. So
did Miss McCann's when she left
home. There was another girl with
her, said the clerk, who insisted on
remaining on the doorstep Of the store
while all the telephone conversation
was going on. On Saturday the girl
who did the telephoning had come into
the store and asked Effers to direct
her to rooming house. He gave her
the address of a house called Kister
Court, but inquiry proved later that no
girl answering such a description had
taken room there lately.
A reward of $1,000 has been offered
by Thomas Jay Gleason of 1910 Glen
wood road, Flatbush, for the arrest
and conviction of persons, if any, who
have kidnapped Miss McCann.
It was learned that the girl had been
suffering from "blues" for some time
previous to her disappearance and that
she would frequently burst into fits of
weeping on apparently no provocation
at all.
Miss McCann became subject to
spells of melancholia two or three
months ago. She became nervous, a
very unusual thing for her, and went
to the family physician, DR.. Roger
Durham of 800 Park place, for treat,
ment.
"She was nervous and inclined to be
morbid" said DIR. Durham. "She com
planned that she had not been able tC
do as much good work as she wished
think it probable that she may have
wandered away in state Of aphasia
and will be found before long"
The young woman is twentythree
years old, weighs about 100 pounds, is
five feet seven inches tall and has q
light complexion, light brown hair and
blue eyes.
Speedy developments are expected il
the case of Miss Mabel Vera Moulton
who has been missing from her home
$50 West One Hundred and Fifty-sec
ond street, since last Wednesday, Hel
mother said that If the girl did not re
turn home in two hours she would &C
before Magistrate House and get {
summons for her other daughter, Mrs
Isabella Palladino of 741 East Tive
Hundred and Twenty-third street De
tectives searched the Palladino home
but could find no trace of the missing
girl. Mrs. Palladino admitted that the
girl had been with her for one day.