Perth Amboy evening news., 1916-12-28
GIRL IS MISSING;
ALSO LOCAL MAN
Miss Jennie Cunningham Van
iSheS-So Does Baron Levi
Police and Relatives Link
Disappearance Together.

Miss Jennie Cunningham, twenty
years old, daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Thomas Cunningham, of 1913 Main
street, Tottenville, has been reported
as missing from home since Sunday
and Captain Ernest Van Wagner, of
the Ninth Branch Detective Bureau
of the police department of the city
OF New York, has been asked by the
girls father to find her. Barron Levi,
thirty-four years old, a former resi-
dent of this city, who has resided in
Baltimore, Nd, for the past seven or
eight months, is also missing, it is
said by Miss Cunningham parents,
and it is believed by them and Mrs.
Levi that the two have gone away to-
gether.
Miss Cunningham, who was the as
sistant secretary of the Richmond
County Building and Mutual Loan As
sociation at their office in Main street,
Tottenville, next door to where she re-
sided, left home Sunday morning with
her sister, Miss Marjorie Cunning
ham, to visit their grandmother, Mrs.
Catherine Cunningham, at Elizabeth
street, this city. After spending some
time with their grandmother the Ewo
girls left to go to their home in Tot
tenville. When going to take the troll
ley at State street and Hall avenue,
Jennie decided to visit an aunt in
Woodbridge ard Marjorie walked TO
the ferry to go to her home. That
was the last seen of Jennie by any
members of her family or friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barron Levi, the latter
Iwho is a sister of Mrs. Cunningham,
with their son, Thomas Levi, nine
years old, came here from Baltimore
to spend the holidays with relatives.
They were spending Sunday with
Lewis thor IN Railway and if wa q
there that it is supposed that the two
| met and planned to go away because,
| 1t Is said, the Cunningham girl did
| not stop at Woodbridge. Mr.. Levi left
his wife, telling her he was going to
Perth Amboy to see some of the boys.
That was the last she saw of him.
When Mr.. and Mrs. Levi left Balti-
| more, Mrs. Levi says, Saturday to
come here he told her to take hun
| dred dollars that they had in the
house and to start an account in the
Building Loan Association in this city
again, and at the same time telling
her to leave 5000 with Mrs. Lawrence
Mullens, formerly of this city, with
whom they resided. From word re-
ceived by Mrs. Levi yesterday, ac-
cording to Mr.. and Mrs. Cunningham,
Mr.. Levi was in Baltimore Sunday
night at $3.50 o'clock and borrowed a
suit case from Mrs. Mullens and took
the money that was left behind.
Mr. Levi was all alone at that time.
Since then all trace of him has been
lost. Mr.. Levi, it is said. had been
paying considerable attention toward
his niece for some time. From a let
ter found in the girls effects at the
office where she worked and which
J handwriting was identified as hers
written in November the family fear
| for the worse.
Mr.. Levi was connected with the
Raritan Copper Works in this city for
some time and is prominent in lodge
circles here. He left here last June
to take position with the Baltimore
Copper and Smelling Company. Miss
| Cunningham is well sknown in this
city and in Tottenville.
When she left home all the money
that she had with her was fifty cents
in change. At the Building Loan
Office where she was employed the
accounts were found to be all right.
She seemed to be contented with her
| position and was given a raise in
| salary just before the holidays. Her
father and mother are frantic with
grief over the disappearance of their
daughter. Captain Van Wagner has
sent out a general alarm for the
missing girl and 1t Is expected that
Mrs. Levi will take action in this
state to have her husband brought
back.