New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-18
Sure Daughter Was Not
Slain as Rhode Island
Convict "COnfesses."
DOROTHY A LADY," HE
SAYS INDIGNANTLY
Lawyer Calls Prisoners Story
That Girl Was Buried Near
West Point Improbable.

There was no hope or comfort FOR the
parents Of Dorothy Arnold in the story
told yesterday concerning her death
and burial in a mysterious house near
West Point.
Francis r. Arnold, father OF the miss
ing heress. shook his head Indignantly
when the tale was repeated to him.
That might do for some girls, but
my daughter was lady" he said
To believe the West Point story
meant accepting the theory that Doro-
thy Arnold had something to hide when
she disappeared on December -. 1910,
and this her parents refuse to do, even
after five years of mystery. They re-
Jected yesterday a story which had
considerable circumstantial evidence,
for the introvertible reason that it did
not harmonic with their daughters
character.
Says Girl Was Unconscious.
The story came from the Rhode ISL
and state Prison at Cranston, in the
form Of an alleged confession from
Edward c. Glennoris, a convict. He was
hired, he said, TO assist a "wealthy
young man" in taking Dorothy Arnold
from house in New Rochelle and
burying her in the cellar of the West
Point house. The two were accom-
panied on their night ride from New
Rochelle by man who was addressed
as Doe and who said the girl was
unconscious after an operation.
There were so many flaws IN the
story that John S. Keith. of 40 Wall
street, the lawyer who has had charge
OF the Dorothy Arnold mystery for five
years. discarded il at once. Il was re-
garded as improbable that two men
with crime TO conceal, would take
two additional men into their conf
dcnce, for the mere purpose of help
ing them lift the slender body Of
young girl into an automobile. Two
men with dead body to conceal would
presumably take the trouble TO dig a
grave themselves, and they would not
reveal TO hired thugs the right name
of their victim.
Mr.. Keith could not understand yes
terday either why the automobile
should have gone all the way from New
Rochelle TO the Forty-second Street
ferry, when there is an all-night ferry
at Tarrytown, which would have made
their trip at least ten miles shorter.
Mr.. Keith Not Interested.
"The story does not interest me at
all" he said. ain the first place, IL
involves a story Of crime which / am
convinced was impossible for this
gentle. sweet girl / believe that sui
eide is the explanation of the Dorothy
Arnold mystery, and it may be that We
never shall know the place and the
hour
However. If the authorities need my
help in clearing up this last story. of
course. ! am glad to help. shall await
their request for help. If the time
comes. and the body is exhumed, can
identify it by the teeth"
Glennoris's story involved mention
of a saloon at Twenty eighth Street
and Seventh Avenue. II was here, he
said, that he met Little Louie" and
here the big closed car called for the
two grave diggers to take them TO West
Point. Inspector Cray discovered yes
terday that Glennoris was known at
that saloon, and that Little Louie"
Benoit was employed there about the
time of Dorothy Arnold's disappear
ance.
According 20 police records, Glen
norris as Octave Genoces, was commit
ted to the Elmira Reformstory, on
July IS, 1910, for grand larceny. He
was released on August 10. As Charles
Chorus, he was sentenced to Sing Sing,
April 3, 1918, for attempted extortion.
He was sentenced to eighteen months
in the Rhode Island prison, on June "a,
1915. for extortion by Blank Hand
methods. Detective Brennicke, who
made the arrest which sent him TO Sing
Sing, gave Il as MS opinion that the
man was mentally unsound. Mr. Keith
and Mr.. Arnold yesterday both said
that the tale was probably the inyen-
,ion NJ q mailman