New-York tribune., 1918-06-03
Police Mystihed
By Strange Death
OF Miss Hen1naing g
Teacher Drowned at Glen
Cove Not Attacked,
Says Physician

New York detectives and police of
Glen Cove, Long Island, have not yet
learned how Miss Dorothy M. Hem
ming, the twenty -two-y year-old Brook
lyn school teacher, met death in Lower
Mill Pond, near Glen Cove.
Three distinct lines Of investigation
have been developed, and the police
said yesterday that each line has pro-
duced sufficient amount of circum-
stantial evi>>nce to support it.
John Dunlap, a chauffeur and garage
worker, of 1862 West Fifty-second
day as witness in connection with
the girls death, was taken to Glen
Cove yesterday and is being held for
to-morrow's inquest. A charge of
homicide placed against him at the
Forty-scventh Street station, has been
withdrawn.
Miss Hemmng disappeared a week
ago Friday from St. Vincent's Retreat,
Harrison, N. Y, where she had gone
for a rest after nervous breakdown
She was seen the following day at
her body was taken from the pond, near
Glen Cove no trace of her could be
found.
Here are the three latest theories
upon which the police Investigations
are based
That Miss Hemming was attacked
and her body thrown into the pond.
That she ended her life during an
attack of mental depression induced
by her nervous condition.
That she met death in the pond by
accident.
According to Chief of Police Dono-
hue of Glen Cove, four persons, say
they saw Dunlap, under the influence
of liquor, near Lower Mill Pond
week ago Saturday night.
James Breen, one of the party of
four, says that Dunlhp led him to a
bench near the pond and pointed to
woman's hat and coat.
Breen says he took the hat and coat
to his home and did not report the
find until the woman's body had been
taken from the pond.
This witness told Chief Donahue that
At o'clock the following morning, the
chief asserts, patrolman saw Dunlap
in Glen Cove.
Yesterday when Dunlap was taken
from New York to Glen Cove he denied
that he had been in the vicinity Of
Lower MYll Pond a week ago Saturday
night, and refused to admit that
derby hat, with the initials 81. d."
which was found near the pond, was
his.
Mrs. Dunlap, who is with her two
year old son in the tiny apartment at
362 West Fifty-second Street, yesterday
told newspaper men that she had given
her husband money last Friday evening
a week ago to go to Glen Cove in
search of employment as a chauffeur
She said he returned Sunday without
ms derby hat, but wearing cap.
"But l know he is innocent of any
wrongdoing," she added "If they
found him guilty and the whole world
said so | would know he never did it.
he loves his baby and his home. He
told me he lost his hat running for a
train, and | believe him"
DR.. ]. B. Connolly further compli-
Gated The case yesterday when he re-
ported that there were no marks on the
young woman's body, that apparently
She had not been attacked and that
death was caused by drowning
The mother superior of st. Vincent's
Retreat Insists that Miss Hemmine was
rational. Friends of the
young school teacher say she was
deeply religious and was ambitious to
become nun. They cannot explain
why she left the retreat so suddenly.
unless she decided to go to Glen Cove
to visit friends.