The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1914-03-11
CAN'T FIND TRACE
OF MISS PRITCHER
Method Of Girls Disappearance and
Her Whereabouts Can Hardly Even
be COnjectured.

Her whereabouts Can Hardly Even
be Conjecturcd.
Savannah, Ga, March 6.-Scarch
Tor MISS Maud Pritchcr Of Pritchards-
vile, ;. g., who mystcrously disap-
pearcd from the bluff ut Emmett park
Wednesday afternoon was practical
" abandoned tonight with the mystery
still unsolvcd. The police and rcla
dves. OF the girl have followed every
clue and suggestion, but their search
has been in vain. They have secured
every section Of Savannah, including
the rural districts, but have found no
trace OF tho missing girl Relatives
have given up hope Of finding her i'm
0eediatcly. They have rcconciled
themselves with the thought that the
girl left home Voluntarily They are
trying to believe that she decided to
got out into the world and make her
own living. They will not entertain
the thought that she has met with foul
play.
Theories without number have been
pearancc, but none has been plausible
enough to be accepted seriously or
to aid in the search. The fact that
the girl absolutely vanished from an
open park in the centre OF the city
at 80 in the afternoon remains, and
80 far there has been no reasonable
explanation of the fact
The relatives Of the girl are utter
iy at a loss to account for the oc-
ourrencc, and the police as we'll are
puzzled. The search has been carried
into the restricted district by them
on the theory that the girl may have
been lured into some resort where she
Is being detained, but this has brought
no result
The place where the girl was stand
ing when last seen by her father is
at the head OF a narrow flight OF
stairs winding around the bluff from
the eastern end OF Emmet park to
the driveway beneath, distance Of
about 30 feet. From the foot Of
the bluff to the boat landing is very
nearly 200 feet. 1t would have been
an utter impossibility for the girl
to have fallen into the river from
this place, and had she fallen over
the railing to the driveway below her
body would certainly have been
found. Thus the possibility Of acct
dent is eliminated from the case.
nj hot ol,
with foul play-was kidnapped or lured
away-or that she ran away Of her
own accord. The fact that her disap
pcarance occurred within space of
time not exceeding five minutes, and
that the place where she was last
seen is almost in the heart Of the
city, with pedestrians passing back
and forth on the sidewalk not 100
yards away, and in plain view, renders
*he Kidnapping theory vastly improb
able. Her screams would have
brought 100 people to her assistance
within few moments.
The theory that she was lured
away becomes equally as improbable
In face Of the fact that she was with
her father almost every minute Of the
time that elapsed between her leaving
Wednesday morning and her disap
pearance Wednesday afternoon. To
have persuaded girl Of the tempera-
nent ascribed to Miss Pritcher to leave
her father in the manner she left him
would have taken quite good deal OF
time, even If it could have been done
at ALL
The possibility that she left In ac-
cord with plan arranged through
correspondence unknown to her par