New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-05

The telephone heil IN me l'et'tAN' ~
reau NJ Police Headquarters tinFles. Inc
officer I'm charge takes the receiver from
the hook. listens then reaches for PAD
on which he scribbles a message irom =
precinct station. The conversation Is ter
minated. a stenographer Is summoned
from another room and given instruc-
tions Within few hours the police OF
all the stations in greater New YORK ana
perhaps neighborhing cities have been
furnished with a description of girl re-
ported as missing. The search rs on.
Hardly "A day passes that the police are
not asked by distracted parents To look
for a daughter who mas either wilfully
forsaken her home or Who has been lured
away. To private detective agencies come
persons in similar predicaments VINO
dread the publicity attached to me sehu-
ing out OF general Harm. The puonc
never gets an inkling Of the number OF
such cases. Again, there are persons VINO
make only personal Investigations, ana IL
is only by chance that news of the us
appearance OF one Of their family leaks
out
Late last summer. when parts OF a
body which was later identified as tha'
of Anna Aumuller were lying IN the
morgue In Hobokcn. the public was aston
ished by the number OF persons WHO came
forward. stating their belief that the deau
woman was daughter or sister
In the majority of cases the efforts oil
the searchers are rewarded by at least a
knowledge of the fate Of their object. II
she is not returned alive to her family
4 case seldom comes to public Afternoon
i'm which not single ciew to the wnere-
abouts or state of existence OF msslhS
girl is not obtained. The most striKlnB
example of such an instance. however Is
that of Dorothy Arnold.
Although the termination of the search
for a missing girl is often of nature al
cad as that which attended the nhu'hs
of the body of Jessie Mccain at Conc!
Island yesterday. there have been man
instances i'm which the motive when leu
tho girls from home was anything out
tragic Miss Lucy b. Dodge. a grand
daughter of the late John BiSelow, disdP-
peared from the home of her no'he'
Mrs Lionel Guest, in London last sprihs
and was gone a week before IL pecd''
kroun she had gone. An explanation OF
her action given out later had II tha'
Miss Dodge absented herself from hc'
family for n week merely to escape t"'
attentions of an unwecome sultor'
In November. 1910. II became known
,bot q worldwide search was being maze
for Miss Maud Blaisdell. of NO -oA De
atm street. Brooklyn. daughter OF
Joseph w. Blaisdell, a wealthy coal neai-
or Bruce Blaisden. a brother Oh '"e
missing young woman offered re"d "
of s, 0O0 for any information as 10 "e'
u.hereaborts. The girl mad been gone
from her home since May Il ot that yea IT,
Miss Blaisdell was eighteen years o''
NJ the time of her disappearance WHO"
,.,,,o almost al the time John T. Ravens
,ha Rlaisdeu chauffeur, quit his JOB ana
went West. according to the story ne 'o'1
bie wife. Two weeks after II became
known that Miss Blaisdell was aus"
from, her home she returned. Inc la'iii''
refused TO offer any explanation ior ne,
absence. and it was denied that she anu
Ravens had been married.
In March of the same year uetecN''''
uero securing the earth Tor MISS p''iiS
coll a sensational search Which iaS''u
only two days was conducted III oou'"
-. >-au, Jersey Miss Helen Bloodgoou'
a daughter Of William Bloodsood' secre,
tarv of the American Felt Compah!' III
~ the home OF Leslie r. Fort at Lake
wood leaned from second story window
and disappeared. e,.,
The young woman. it was said' suneieu
from the deluson that she was the per
secuted heroine Of a novel and had haue
several attempts TO elude her nurses. ofl
the night of March 10 she arose IRON,
her bed. overpowered her attendant anu