New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-10
POLICE SHUT OUT
in MYSTERY CASE
Relatives of Adelphi Col
lege Girl, Left Lying in
L. |. Road, Mum.
VILLAGE FORCE"
DOUBTS HER STORY
Woman Who Found Miss Bom-
mer Also SCOTS at Tale of
Toss from Automobile.

The police OF two citie. agreed yes
terday that the case OF Louise BONNER
was a most mysterious one. Louise Is
the comely eighteen-yesr-old Adelphi
College student, daughter OF Emil
BONNER, Of $50 Clermont Avenue,
Brooklyn. who was found lying uncon-
scious Monday night in front of the
home Of Dr. ]. Z. Hutcheson, in Rock
vile Centre, Long Island.
In behalf OF the girl and her family,
DR.. Hutcheson issued statement for
the press Wednesday describing the
narrowing way in which she had been
abducted from Brooklyn In a high
powered limousine by a handsome
stranger, richly dressed, with many
other interesting details, making up,
taken all in all, rather atrocious
crime.
To the metropolitan police the mys-
FERROUS part Of the affair is the fact
that they have not been called in 20 in
vestigate the atrocity. Captain Cogh-
Ian. Of the Brooklyn Detective Bureau.
said yesterday that no action would be
taken by the department because they
had not been notified.
But the Rockville Centre police.
which is composed of Captain George
O'Neill, has been conducting an ag-
gressive investigation and has I'M
earthed a theory.
1t may be said in passing that the
family Of Miss BONNER, as well as
DR.. Hutchinson, has decided that mum
is the word. so all Georges efforts
have been made without assistance.
Dr.. Hutcheson simply reiterated yes
terday the story he told Wednesday,
laying stress upon the assertion that
the only physical condition worthy OF
note about the girl was a bruised
wrist. He added an item 10 ms
Wednesdays story by saying he had
treated her once several years ago Tor
scarlet fever. =,
AS for her father, who is bulky
man. said TO be of considerable manu-
featuring importance, he spent the day
slamming the front door in the faces
of inauisitive callers at the family
home in Clermont Avenue. Supposedly
the girl is there, under close restraint
Out at Rockville Centre the only
word that came from the family was
cousin of the abducted girl. Young
Ronuer explained how it happened that
one branch of the family was called
Bonner and the other BONNER. The
heads of the two branches are broth
era and were once named the same, he
said. but when they came to this coun-
try from Germany one, just to be neu-
trail. took to spelling his name with
two ms, while the other, Louise's fath-
er. stuck to the German original.
But this did not clear up the whole
mystery, so far as Captain George, OF
the Rockville Centre police, was con-
cerned. He went on shopping around
all day Yesterday. Further details OF
the scene when the girl was found were
given by Mrs. Daisy Langdon, who
came upon the unconscious girl and
helped carry her into DR.. Hutchinson s.
"She lay there just as peacefully as
a girl asleep" Mrs. Langdon said. she
could not have fallen or been thrown
out of an automobile; | am sure OF
that. Her clothes were smooth and
her hands were crossed on her breast,
as if some one had placed her down
carefully"
This helped Georges theory. He ex-
pounded that theory yesterday.
"This amt no abduction" he SAID.
"The gal says some one in the car said
TO another guy they had copied the
wrong girl. Maybe that is so. But
the fact remains that Mr.. Martin, who
lives at ~ Smith Street and who helped
carry her in, heard her say something
that makes me believe she knew more
than has been told.
How did it happen that she Just
CHANGED to be brought TO Rockville
Centre, where her uncle lives, by
strangers? And why did they dump
her out so carefully in front OF the
family physicians house? Ind il there
was such a serious crime as kidnapping
attempted, how is it that no police no
where has been notified. so that the
can be caught and pun
ished?"
These and many more kindred ques-
tons were rafting about in the mind
OF Captain ONeill last night as he .
tramped his beat, too busy 70 investi-
gate the matter further.