New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-01-05
missing GIRLS" MANY,
BUT MYSTERIES ONLY FEW
Dorothy Arnold Case One Of Those in Which No Cew lame
to Light-Some Disappearance Due to Tragedy but
Odd Reasons Explain the Majority

ESCAPED by Ieaping from the window ciao
only i'm nightgown.
For two DAYS the people OF Lakewood
and surrounding towns were much eN
cited. The pine woods were searcheu
diligently. while l0om handbills bearing
a photograph and description OF the MISS
ing woman were struck off and distrib-
uted broadcast about the country. a
pack Of boodhounds was taken TO the
ground beneath the window from "hlch
Miss Bloodgood jusped. They follower
the trail no little distance. Only 10 lose
il near the Gould estate. not far from
little body OF water known as Lake cara
saljo.
The dogs were I'D about the lake sew
oral times. but fai!eu to regain the scent
Efforts of searchers were then narrowed
to the water. The bottom was dragged
and the effort resulted in the hhd'hs ~
Miss Bloodgoods body. clad as when she
ESCAPED from her bedroom, III the Hl"u'
beneath five feet Of water
In England a few years ago searo''
WAS made for a girl which was instituted
for reason more pleasant imam t"a'
which usually prompts compng OF t"'
earth Mary Whiting. according W
the English government, was entitled 10
considerable sum OF money. the uncol-
Iected pension given to her father by
Charles IT. For four decades the money
had not been collected and SiV"o "as
credited to Miss Whiting
According to :he government recoi"'
the deed for which the girls ancestor was
rewarded occurred after the battle oi
Worcester. I'm 1851. Routed by Crom"eh
Roundheads and certain Of being put 10
death II he were captured, Charles APP
pe,led to Richard Penderel 10 save him.
ponderel secreted the fugitive monarch
in the trunk of hollow oak tree uhui
the enemy had passed. Pcnderel ana MS
heirs were ponsioned In perpetuity'
The search for Miss whiting was car
ried on in the United States ana bri'iS"
colonies. but without success
Marie Smith. a -year-old schoolgirl
vas missed from her home In Asoury
porl, few wears ago. and two days
Iater searchers came upon her dead pody
in a field of scrubby trees. a negro was
arrested for having caused her death' p"'
later nc was released when confession
vos made by Frank f. Heidemann'
uor,st,s cIcrk. that he had killed the girl
I1o later maid the penalty with his own
life.
4 case OF a missing girl that attTacten
considerable attention recently was that
of Ramona Borden the daughter or Can
Rorden. the condensed milk manufac-
tori N,
/ with two women. II was al nrst
believed that the seventeen-year-oiu s"'
had been kidnapped. but when she was
found several days later she dclared she
ran away. because her father had spanked
her.
4; No. 1879 Morris avenue, The Bronx
lives Mildred Rudd, the sixteen-year-old
daughter Of George Rudd. who is known
10 the police as "the disappearing girl.
So many times has Mildred left her nome
and been reported as kidnapped that all
count has been lost. The first time she
left home was in April, 1910 She was
found in the Catskills, after the police
of every Eastern city had been instructed
10 look for her. In February a year
later she again dropped from sight, and
was later found in Brooklyn, where she
had been taken, she said, by two men In
taxicab.
In July. 1911, she left home again. and
turned I'D In New Haven. The last re-
mort the police had Of her wanderings
came to them last October. when her
father brought a suit to have her mar
,riage TO Vincent Micari annulled. 1t de-
vcloped then that she had been gone from
home two weeks, but she turned up safe
a few days later.