New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-07-12
Think BeuIah Reeve May Have
Accepted Ride, Expecting
To Be Taken Home.
FAMILY OFFERS REWARD
Searching Party Scour Swamp
and Drag 4 Ponds for Body,
but No Trace of Young
Woman Is Found.
IEy Telegraph to The Tribune. ]

Goshen, n. Y, July 1l.-While party
OF searchcrs worked vainly from dawn
until late tonight hunting for Miss
Bculah Reeve, who has not been seen
since last Monday evening" facts devel-
oped which lead the authorities TO believe
that the young woman may have been
kidnapped. 1t was learned to-day that
one of the persons with whom Miss
Reeve conversed Wen she returned
TO Goshen from her sisters at Washing
tonville. on Monday evening, was Miss
Mamie Smith, who resides in Main street
Miss Smith stated to-day that Miss Reeve
remarked that she was tired and wished
some one would come along and give her
a ride home. 1t is the belief that perhaps
Miss Reeve was invited to take a ride in
a car, and that instead of being taken
home she was kidnapped.
Her relatives. on the other hand, say
she would not accept a ride from
stranger. To-day they offered a reward
of $3.50 for news of her whereabouts or the
finding of her body.
The young woman had been suffering
from nervousness and, although there was
nothing in her condition to cause any
alarm, she was being treated by DR.. {,
w. Dennis. the family physician. When
she left her sisters home on Monday
she said that she was going to call on
the doctor before going TO her mothers
home.
DR.. Dennis was the last person who saw
her, so far as is now known. He was out
on another call when, at about o'clock
in the evening. he saw the girl watkins
along a lonely road I'm the direction OF
her home. She was alone and said moth
ing to DR.. Dennis about visiting his office
Miss Reeve is now known to have
taken the Monday afternoon train from
Washingtonville to Goshen. A number OF
acquaintance saw her get off the train
and start walking in the direction Of her
home.
Not until yesterday did it become known
that the girl was missing. Her mother
supposed she was with her sister. Mrs
John Brooks, of Washingtonville, and the
sister, knowing the girl had started home
ward on Monday, naturally thought her
with their mother. Another sister,
Beulahs twin, wrote to Mrs. Brooks and
inquired after Beulah. Mrs. Brooks i'm
mediately communicated with her mother
and then the fact of the girls disappear
ance became known.
Since then there have been constant eff
forts to find her or her body. All last
night the searchers continued at work,
and to-day the work was redoubled. The
searching party. numbering seventy-five
men and Boy Scouts, which was called
out Thursday afternoon by the sound OF
the fire whistle. continued from until
O'Clock in the evening. -Four ponds that
arc located in the vicinity Of the Reeve
homestead two miles from Goshen. were
dragged by the searchers, and a swamp
was also visited, where the searchers en-
countered swarms Of mosquitoes and
waded in water waist deep.
The complete failure Of these efforts led
the family to offer the reward mentioned.
Sheriff Sayre has sent out pictures and a
description Of the missing young woman.
Her aged mother is greatly worried
over her daughters disappearance, which
she says is beyond her comprehension.
She declares she knows OF no reason why
Miss Reeve should leave home deliberately
and insists there was no love affair.