The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-02-20
Mrs. M. M. Bachmanl, Local Mid Wife, Tells Police Young Woman Answering Printed Descriptions of New York Heiress Sought Illegal Operation.
Bridgeport Detective Goes to Metropolis to Confer With Detectives There In Possible Clue Look In
 Machine Shops Here for Cobbler Who Disappeared

Search for Ruth Cruger, 17 years. old, the wealthy New
 York girl whose disappearance
 rivals in public interest that of Dorothy Arnold, was transfer red from New York to Bridge port today.
 A midwife, Mrs. M. M. Back
 mann of 234 Brooks street, this
 city, has told the police that a 1tgirl answering the description of Miss Cruger came to her
 home a month ago and asked
 her to perform an illegal oper-
 alton, which she refused to do. The girl who appealed to Mrs.
 Bachmann is described by her as about IT years old, and attractive of face. Her appearance, Mrs. Bach
 mann told the police, was very simi- lar to that outlined in descriptions of | the missing young oman.
 Detective George Simon, who un- earthed this possible clue. went to New York today, to consult with New York detectives. A search of this has
 already been instituted in the effort to find Alfred Gecchi, keeper of a re-
 pair ship at 542 West s125th street, ! Ne York.
 The girl when last seen was in his shop and left to be sharpened a. pair of skates, which she had carried from hefSahome,~.120 Claremont ave- nue. The police rigidly questioned Cocchi; who disappeared last Thurs day, leaving a wife and two children, ! when he found the authorities had
 him under surveillance.
 The girl has now been missing sev-
 eral weeks: Cocchi owner of the store where the girl left her skates fled New York last Thursday. He is
 a machinist and the fact that he could easily obtain work in this city leads the police to think he may have
 come to this city having previously caused Miss Cruger to be spirited out l of New York to Bridgeport.
 i Henry D. Cruger, father of the girl
 claims she was drugged and abduct-
 ed. He asserts that two men who
 
 daughter called may have something to do with her disappearance. He has strongly criticised the New York police for failing to watch the block | in which Cocchi's repair shop is To- cated thinking there exists a possi- bility of her being detained in a house and then spirited away. l "The police failed miserably in watching the vicinity of Cocchi's shop
 after they were told on Wednesday ] that he admitted Ruth had called for her skates the day before,' said Mrs Cruger last night. Tt was in that mah's shop my daughter was last seen. I believe the hunt should cen tre on that block, for it was possible she was seized when coming out, put into a taxicab and taken away Mrs. Bachmann is the mother of | Mrs. Wilma M. Robertson, who con- ducts a drug store at 870 Main street, which is about to close it's doors Mrs. Susie Bachmann, of 1137 Pembroke street, daughter -in- i law of Mrs. M. M. Bachmann is also midwife. Efforts to 1ocate> Mrs. | Bachmann today were futile. Mrs. | Robertson did not know where she | was and her daughter-in- law e Onfess- ed ignorance of her whereabouts. It is possible she has gone to New York with Detective Simons to see | the parents of the Cruger girl and make positive the Identification. Mrs. Bachmann stated the girl who ap- piled to her seemed to be about IT years of age, was exceedingly pretty, | dressed in clothes of costly texture i and was in a serious condition. The girl who attempted to commit l suicide by throwing herself from the 1 platform of a subway station in New York, in front of an approaching | train, but was prevented and taken away by man and woman has been 1 identified and is not the Cruger girl