Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-01-31
"Mysfery GirI' Still
Conceals Her Identity.
Dawn Moore No Longer Dorothy Arnold in Secusion
Advice of Attorneys Herself the Victim of
"Frame-Up" and Confident She is Now Cleared-Remans
to Press Suit Against Great Northern II

MY name is Dawn Moore and was
born in Fredericksburg, Va. The rest
OF the story? You won't get me to
tell you that" ~ s1.
And Miss Dawn Moore, who as
Dorothy Arnold is the central figure
in the most puzzling case the police
have dealt with in many years, set a
determined little mouth and at the
same time smiled out of brown eyes
at the Star-Bulletin reporter with
whom she was talking.
Miss MoOre-by the way, she says
that Moore is part of her name but
not necessarily her last name-is In
seclusion. Her attorneys know where
she is stopping. At their advice she
Is living at quiet, respectable board
ing house, the name Of which they
refuse to give She went there yes
terday, following her release from the
city jail when Capt. of Detectives Nc.
DHffie could find no evidence upon.
which to hold her - ~. ....-.s...,e.zs (
And In seclIsion, IL the advice Of
her attorneys is followed, she will
remain until her damage suit for $4,000
against the steamship Great Northern
comes to trial. 4
The Star-Bulletin, nevertheless, has
been able to locate the mystery girl"
and this morning she talked with flu
ency about her case. As to her past,
she is about as voluble as the Sphinx.
Comes Of Virginia Family
All that she would say this morning
is that her family, originally In Fred
ericksburg, has moved away, that they
have no idea whatever that she got
into trouble on the Great Northern
and with the Honolulu police, and that
she is acquainted with . good many
people In San Francisco.
She declares herself entirely conf
dent that she Is through with the
police. that they viii bother her no.
longeFs They didn't get . thing on
me. she asserts. II have heard that
they and The Great, Nor thsrn detective
are cabling all over the country tol
try and get damaging evidence
against me. but 1t cant be done. Ny
neither will stand by me II it comes
to that--eyery Right Of my life ! have
been at home.n
Miss Moore says that her three days
in jail was very unpleasant expert
ence. ~. 81.
During the whole time could not
undress and could wash my face only
once" she said. I'm the cell with me
were two drunken women who used |
vile language, and across the way was
an insane japanese woman. Men-aliI
kinds Of men, some of them horrible
things were allowed to come and
stare at me until l thought was go
ing crazy.
mo, was offered no indignities by
any of the police. Capt McDuffie |
treated me entirely With respect
though must say he was at times
well, rather brief. / suppose he is
cross because there was no evidence
to be had against me. He sent me
down meal konce-pai for by him
self, and rerhaps he was sorry for
me-.
From Slang TO Conventional Speech
Throughout her conversation, which |
was mainly in good English, flashes
of the slang of the streets came into
her words. II made exactly the Inn
preston her story has made that she
is not unaccustomed to refinement |
and good society, and that she is also
familiar with less conventional modeB |
OF life. Fs
This morning she admitted having |
used the name Dorothy Arnold as
a hoax, bat. declares she has never
had the slightest intention of using 1t |
for fraudulent purposes.
Anyone would know instantly that
I'm not Dorothy Arnold she smiled. |
Il don't look in the least like her.
told them the story at the Y. w. C. 4
A. because they were asking me so
many questions. And, after all, the
girls began to refuse TO speak to me-"
She was asked how she happens to |
know SO much about the Dorothy Arm
old case. This she declined to an
swer but declared that she has never
used the Arnold name before for pur-
poses of deception.
One of those who has talked with
her said today that he is inclined to
think she is a mainland girl perhaps
here on some silly eseapade entirely
without harm, and that she Is re-
fusing to talk about her past be-
canse she is determined her family
shall not know Of it II, however, her
name is Dawn Moore, it Is probable
that before now mainland newspapers
have printed the story on cabled in
formation from Hawaii, and in this
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