New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-02-06
That's What She Says, but
Chicago Y. w. c. A. Sus-
poets Love Affair.
PARENTS TO BRING
HER HOME TO-DAY
Mystery Remains as to Where
Brooklyn Schoolgirl Got
Money for Trip.
BY Telegraph 10 The Tribune J

i'ToohlNn, whose disappearance on
Monday aroused the police all over the
United States. is at the Young Wom-
ems Christian Association tonight
awaiting the arrival Of her father aud
uncle 10 take her back home.
Miss Lawlor left her home, she said.
because her parents wished her TO
enter normal school after she had
finished high school. She did not want
20 be school teacher. she said. but
wished TO enter a medical college and
study TO he a physician.
She first said she was Florence
| Lawrence, but finally admitted her
name was Lawlor. and rejoiced to-
night after talking with her parents
over the telephone, and said she would
be glad TO return home tomorrow.
Called Herself Lawrence"
Miss Lawlor was found in the La
Sale street railroad station by Miss
Eta Schlung. representative of the
Chicago Young Women's Christian AS
sociauon, yesterday at p. m, few
minutes after the girl stepped from a
Lake Shore train from New York. AL
though she was alone at the time. Mrs.
Wllhelmina Barr, superintendent of the
association, believes that a man had
something to do with her disappear
ance from her home.
THE girl told US her name was Law
renee and that her parents we're dead
and she came here to seek employ
ment," said Mrs. Barr to-day. we
gave her a room and told her VIC
would get employment for her. We
were suspicious Of her and I wrote a
letter to Benson r. Hedges, of Colum-
bus Ohio her uncle. Mr.. Hedges sent
me a telegram at once. asking that
the girl be held. She fitted a descrip-
tion published in the newspapers ac-
curately and we resolved to watch her
so she would not have an opportunity
10 escape
Love Affair SUSPECTED.
The uncle in the meantime tele-
graphed to George VI. Lawlor. the
girls father, and he sent me tele-
gram asking If she was safe with me.
| called him up on the telephone and
after our talk he was convinced the
girl was his daughter 1t is my idea
that Miss LaWlor might have had a
love affair and that there is a man
bocL of ber leaving home"
Florence Barbara LaWlor is coming
back to her home, at No. 5619 Fifteenth
avenue Brooklyn. as soon as her father
and mother can go TO Chicago and get
her. She left home on Monday morning
to go TO school. everybody in her home
thought. but she did not go to school.
Florence is the only girl in the family
and she is pretty and attractive to all
her acouaintances. including her father
and mother.
The Lawlors held a long distance
telephone conversation with their
daughter in Chicago yesterday, but
they could not understand much that
she said, according to Miss Perkins,
her bosom friend, and Mrs. Lester. AT
the Lawlor home, it was said yester-
dav. that the probable reason for the
girls disappearance was that she had
failed of promotion at the high school.
/ Asked If she had any sweetheart, her
parents were emphatic in their deniais'
Mr. and Mrs. Lawlor will leave for
/ Chicago some time this morning.
Gets Black Hand Letter.
Mrs Lawlor went TO sleep for the
first time in some days last night, and
Mr. Lawlor attended TO his business
Yesterday for the first time in the same
neriod Many Of the girls OF the high
schoo, assisted in the search for their
corpanion. No explanation could be
given As 10 where Miss Lawlor obtained
the money for her fare to Chicago.
"If YOU want your daughter. come 70
New York between 6 and O'Clock,
Doth street and First avenue, reao
letter received by the girls father yes
terday. Wear white flower IN your
buttonhole. Show $1,000 In an envel-
ope in your right hand. man Will
walk UP 10 you and say DO you want
YOUR daughter back?' Give him the
money. Then when you return home
vou will find your daughter there safe
If Won fail to do this we will blow the
whole biz TO hell"
The letter was signed "Padrone
Gangi." The communication was re-
coivod after the Lawlors talked with
,heir daughter in Chicago. The voice
- tho girl was recognized over the
,oiorhone. but Mr.. Lawlor decided 10
,,.estieate the letter. With an army
=, detectivcs he came over the bridge
"a exhibited an envelope at the
proper place
Tbere was no sign Of anybody want
o "s1 pO in an envelope so Mr..
,au,lor went home. Padrone is the u
a. usod by Italians who employ labor.
ca,si may or may no. mean gangs.
Former Mrs. Tom Thumb ILL.,
re-, Telegraph To The Tribune