New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-12-12
Missing Social Worker Not
Found in Philadelphia
or Chinatown.
FATHER WATCHES
WAVES FOR BODY
Hazel Weaver. Second Girl to
Vanish from Flatb-Sh Within
Week, Returns Home.


Miss Jessie Evelyn Mccain the Flatbust
girl. Yesterday From Brooklyn ana
Concy Island. whore several persons re.
ported having seen the young woman tn,
activities Of Miss McCanns family anc
the police shifted to Philadelphia where
for a time it seemed that the missing sir
might bc founl Last night however
Robert g. Mccain. Jcsscs father. ad
mittcd AT his home. al No. 4GS East 2ls
street i'lathush that nc was no nearer
finding his daughter. who disappeared JUS
a week ago yesterday, than he had beer
since she left home.
Tie Brooklyn police were asked yestcr
day 10 look TO" another rlatoush -ill
Miss Helen Weaver. OF 40. 1872 East 57tl
street who had not been seen o. hcart
Of siG.c She left her home Monday morn
Ing. The police were inclined to think IN,
girl had fallen a victim To evil men. but
she returned TO her home last night
The search for Jessie Mccain, beside!
beius carried on in Philadelphia. covered
wide area in this city. While the 'Jthcr
who held 10 the theory that his dauchte'
was at Coney Island. paced the boardwalk
and streets Of the almost deserted resort
hoping to meet his daughter, the police
and settlement workers IN Chinatown
conducted an investigation there The
clevs that led them to believe the gir
might be sccrctcd i'm don i'm the distric
were slight.
Girl Not Jessie Mccain.
Yesterday morning Inspector Faurot
head of the New York Detective Bureau
dispatched detectives 10 Philadelphia fol
lowing a telephone message from Mrs
Deacon. who keeps a restaurant at No
800 Chestnut street. TO Robert {. Mccain
sa,inc that a girl vino closely resemble'
his daughter had entered her place o
business late Friday night The Phila
delphja police also reported giving
nights lodging to young woman wh'
acted strangely and whose description tai
led with that OF Jessie MCCann.
The New York detectives traced the slr
who entered the restaurant to the Fhlla
delphia Hospital where they iound sh'
wss Nellie Coleman. of Staten Island. Sn'
said She had run away from homc.te seel
work in philadelphia. She was e"hilo' -
at the hospital
Detectives last night made canvass o.
the fraternity houses Of the University
Of PENNSYLVANIA looking for a friend OF
l. Wendell Sauircs. Of 30 so West l2it'
street and Good Ground. Long ls'ahu
q sonbomore i'm the Columbia School OF
Mines. 10 whom Jessie Mccain IS saio
bv friends to have been engaged.
The detectives were accompanied oN
Robert g. Mccain. ir., brother oil th'
missing girl. The elder Mccain whose
health is almost in a state of collapse
thought the journey would he too great
strain FOR him. Mrs. McCann was con
fined 10 her home yesterday i'll, as a re-
suit OF Jcssies absence.
In Philadelphia lives an uncle Of jessie
NcCann. whom the girl frequently visited
but at his home last night it was said NJ
had not seen or heard from his niece
since her disappearance.
sauires Not at Home,
J.. Wendell Squires. the Columbia stu
Gent. refused 20 be interviewed. At ms
apartment il was said he was not II
the city-that ne had gone to visit his
father. who is proprietor of the Arlington
Hotel al Good Ground. Squiros had moi
been seen about the college in week, II
vas asserted. I.everctt Squircs his IA
Their. said his son was not visiting him
that he was AT his apartment at no. ~
West l2ith street.
The police. it was said yesterday, had
learned the text OF the letter Miss
Mccain received shortly before she 'ei'
home written by Squires.
In II Squrcs is said TO have told the
1 slrl that while his love for her had mol
changed he did not deem ii advisable u
let an affair Of the heart interfere Will
4 his studies. Friends OF the young woman
maintained that Squres was endeaVorlhe
70 proloug an engagement that MISS NC
Cam desired shortened. The Letter pro
q feSsed the warmest attachment TOT th'
4 girl, Il was said. To the police he re-
Il pested portions Of the letter which j
was said. furnished little chance for as
a ceranng why Miss Mccain had lei
home.
Edith Mccain. sister Of Jessie. said las
night that the family placed little credehc'
IN the theory that her sister might De II
= Chinatown. friend, she said had sus
gested that she might be there, as sh'
mad heard Of girls who had disappeared
s. being found there, and had called on MISS
z Rose Livingston. a Chinatown missionary
and asked her TO be on the lookout. MISS
icCsnn expressed little confidence Una
Miss Hvinrston's search, which oeeaf
y Yesterday, would bear results.
II was reported yesterday, however
q hat a girl who looked like Jessie Nc
Cam had been seen recently in the Vlclh
Of Chatham Square, acting in daze'
A manner. Miss Livingston paid a visit u
\ me Mccain home on Wednesday ana De
II voted herself yesterday TO search or th'
q hazes Of the Chinese quarter, but wal
u osble 10 discover any trace OF the mis-
"a ahg girl
Father Keeps Vigil.
ii The search al Coney Island. where IN
b 81 was reported as having been seen
n 's abandoned yesterday, with the ex
n tptlon Of the lone vigil kept by Mr.. Nc
"a am who, although he was physician!
IAole 10 come 20 Manhattan 10 his place
# business spent many hours pacing the
81 aler front. Fearing his daughter ha'
a Feone respondent and thrown hersei
W ~p the ocean, his eyes scanned eaci
ave as II broke along the beach. fearful
Nai II would roll the body Of his daugh
"a ~ on H. the sands
nnlddlc-ag.d well dressed man WDI