New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-11-03
New York AssembIyman and
Private Detectives Rescue the
Missing Society Woman
Wants Will Drawn.
NO GREETING FOR FATHER
Disappearance Due to Nervous
Ailment-Parent Pays $500
Reward and Takes Daugh-
ter to Home in
Brookline.

| Miss Elizabeth Walker, the young So
/ ciety woman who disappeared on
| Wednesday from her home in Brook
, line. Mass, and for whom a reward Of
$500 was offered, was found at the
Hotel Belmont here yesterday MORN
! ing. Recurrence OF nervous disease
prompted her fight from home, &C.
] cording TO relatives.
She was accompanied to Boston yes
terdav afternoon by her father and a
physician who has treated her tor a
number Of years They arrived here
Yesterday morning on receiving inf2r-
nation that the girl was in this city.
Miss Walker is twenty-eight years
old. Since early in life she has re-
ouired the services of a specialist IN
nervous disorders, Gnd her father said
Yesterday these attacks came regularly
every two or three months, Increasing
so insidiously that it had been neces-
sary to pay close attention to her.
Enters Lawyers Office.
Thursday afternoon Assemblyman Ed
ward We'll, who is a lawyer vas sit
ting in his uptown office. at NO 20
East 42d street. where he shares office
room with h. ]. Saloschin, head of the
Reliable Detective Agency. We'll is an
attorney for the agency. He and Salo-
schin we're i'm conversation when
Young woman entered and asked for
Mr. We'll. whose name she had seen on
a street shinglc.
They went into Mr. Wells Office.
where the young woman drew several
papers from handbag and announced
that she wanted her will drawn. She
fumbled with the papers several times.
the while complaining that she could
not see very clearly for lack Of her
glasses.
Mr.. We'll took notes on the bequests
she wanted TO make, most of her prop
erty being in railroad stocks and in
dustrials What they totalled in value
Mr.. We'll says his ignorance OF stock
values prevented him from estimating.
When this part Of the proceeding was
ended the young woman asked the fee.
Mr.. We'll told her.
"Oh," she exclaimed. that's more
than ! figured on. have only s. in
cash with me; but | might leave this
ring"-she showed a ring worth about
SJOO-"as security until ! get the
money. am stopping at the Hotel
row."
Mr. We'll refused TO take the ring. but
agreed to wait until the next day FOR
his money.
As she passed out of the office one Of
Saloschins detectives, who had been
reading a newspaper, lowered it and
remarked to his chief.
That looks like the woman who dis
appeared from Brooklnc."
Registers from Newburgh.
Saloschin, reading over the descrip
ton. agreed with him, and it was de-
Cided to have the lead followed the
next day when she returned. But she
didn't reappear Friday, so We'll and
Saloschin went TO the Manhattan. They
found that she had reached there
Thursday, and, at her suggestion. the
clerk registered her under her own
name. but from Newburgh. y. Y. She
had no baggage.
She was not in the hotel at tho time
She came in at time when the de-
tectives were not there and when they
vent back Saturday they learned that
she had paid her bill and left the hotel
BY telephone and telegraph Mr.
and he and the physician arrived here
at Z o'clock yesterday morning. But
the trail was lost. Saloschin then put
his whole staff on the job, while the
physician and Mr.. Walker went to the
home Of the latters nephew, Harold
Fltz Gerald. at No. III East 56th
street.
At 11:3O o'clock yesterday morning a
canvass of hotels narrowed to the Bel
mont clerk there said Miss Walker
came TO the hotel Saturday night and
had registered. Mr.. Walker looked at
the name pointed out to him. 1t was
"Elizbeth Melville, Boston," The writ
ing was familiar, and Miss Walker had
signed the register, but evidently tried
TO disguise her hand
Fails to Greet Relative.
She was not in her room, but
search OF the hotel found her i'm par
lor on the second floor. She was writ
ing. Mr.. FitZ Gerald approached her.
She looked up in great surprise, but
said nothing. Then Mr.. Walker
stepped in, and as he did 50 he beck
oned the physician in and asked We'll
and Saloschin TO withdraw. They went
away.
BEFORE going to Boston Mr.. Walker
called on MIR. Saloschin and paid him
tho reward. at the same time thanking
him He said that his daughter had
signified willingness to return and
that her wandering was undoubtedly
the result of her aiment. Mr.. walker
said nothing of any possible further
explanation made by the young "ohiah'