Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-11
BOY SCOUTS SEEK
MISSING WOMAN
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Ridge. Caldwell. Montclair and Boon
ton are conducting the search. trahh y
r GRAY. scoutmaster of Boonton, Is
heading the search in the vicinity OF
that town.
The search was decided upon at a
meeting last night at the West Orange
Boy Scout headquarters of the scout
5 Commanders Association of North
ern New Jersey.
The Boy scouts viii not accept
the reward of $3.50 offered for the
recovery OF the woman, dead or
alive. it was decided last night. The
association made arrangements to
consolidate their efforts in such a
manner that future calls upon their
aid will be promptly taken up and
prosecuted systematically.
Mr.. Gray explained the finding OF
tile footprints, supposed to be OF
Mrs Breck, on a mountain chf IN
Montelair, and of a woman who said
she saw her in the section where the
footprints were found. A second
clue was reported by Mr.. Hopkins.
The Boonton seoutmaster was in
Formed by Samuel fucker, of Boon
ION. that he saw Mrs. Breck twice
on Friday last the day she disap-
peared, in the Lackawanua station,
.Hoboken. and the second time she
was headed for the ticket Office \
brakeman on the train departing
from Hoboken at l:55 o'clock that
afternoon said she boarded the train,
but no one heard of her afterwards.
It was, however, reported the woman
was seen in Boonton, her old home.
Mr.. Breck has sent out circulars TO
ali Amherst College graduates in New
York and vicinity asking their help
IN finding his wife. These circulars
say:
You are asked to interest your
self personally in aiding the search
for my wife, Mrs. Helen Meeker
Breck. formerly Of Boonton and
Dover. n. j., who was last seen
at the d., L. and w. r. r. station
In Orange. n. j., at a. m. on Fri
day. December 4. Every Amherst
man and any other friend can be
of great service to me by inter-
esting themselves in this search.
The circular asks that any infor-
nation concerning Mrs. Breck, for
which a reward of $3.50 is offered. be
sent to the nearest Burns detective
agency, or to Mr.. Breck, at 292 Park
avenue. Orange. Telephone 44l0-W
Orange. Similar appeals have been
made to the employees of the Della
ware. Lackawanna and Western rail-
road and the Public Service Corpora
ffon of New Jersey: the POO offices
of the Western Union Telegraph
Company in and near New York; all
the police stations and hospitals OF
New York. Brooklyn, Newark, Hobo
ken and the Oranges, and the New
York tugboat companies. More than
10 600 circulars and several hundred
pictures have thus been distributed.
Information which may aid the
police in thrir search was contained
In a letter received today by Ch'ef oI
Police William H O'Neill, of East
Orange The letter was from Frank
G. lockwood, of 40 Field street,
waterbury. Conn, a former resident
OF East Orange.
The informer states that he saw
Mrs. Breck, with whom he was ac-
ouainted while in East Orange, in a
street at Waterbury last Monday.
,Phe woman, he writes, evidently rec
ognized him and darted hurriedly
across the street. The letter was
written at Waterbury police head
quarters. AS the result of the infor-
NATION received the police will extend
their search to the New England
town.
Jerehiah Hourigan, who conducts
the news depot at the Lackawanna
railroad .%ation in the Watsessing sec
tion of Bloomfield, has informed the
authorities that he saw a woman
Tuesday apparently in a dazed con-
dition on the station from $50 to $50
o'clock. She bore a striking resem-
blance to the photographs of Mrs.
Breck. which had been published, he
said