New-York tribune., 1920-01-13
Miss De Kay Is
Well, Voice on
Telephone Says
Mysterious Assurance of
Safety of Missing Girl
Comes to Chicago Police
by Untraced Message
Family Think Her Alive
Dropped Out of Sight 'sto
Make Good i'm Some
Big Thing Is Belief

CHICAGO. Jan. t2.-Jeanne Anna De
Kay, portega OF Jane Addams, and
who has been missing from Hull House
for fourteen days. is "alive and well. y
according to an untraced telephone
message which was given to the police
early to-day. A woman's voice gave
the information TO the authorities, and
the police said she also put in claim
for the reward offered in the case
The search has extended to New York
and Providence.
Local searchers have lost touch also
with Dadie Salter, young R0manian
woman. who came to America on the
same steamer with Miss De Kay and
her brother. She is supposed to have
brought here a s'priceless Rembrandt
painting, which is said to have been
Pronounced spurious.
Girl Wanted to make Good
= PROVIDENCE, Jan. 12.-Belief that
Miss Jeanne A. DeKay, who disap-
peared from Hull House. in Chicago.
on December 80, dropped out of sight
30 that she might realize an ambition
70 make good in some big thing
was expressed by Judge Thomas q.
Lee OF this city. Judge Lee, who as
counsel for her father. John ". DeKav.
OF Lucerne, Switzerland, has taken
ever direction of the search for the
yirl after cabled authorization from
Mr. DeKay.
Miss DeKay's father is unable to
eame to this country himself to prose-
cute the hunt without exposing him
self to Federal prosecution, as he has
been under Indictment by q Federal
simplicity in the misapplication Of
fu4ds Of the Atlantic National bank.
We are organizing our search to
md Miss DeKay, dead or alive" said
Jndge Lee. However, I think there
has been no suicide, because the canals
u chicago and the shores of the lake
there have been we'll searched. and
other inquiry developed no trace. Miss
Dekay. her brother informs me. left
hull House with little clothing and no
money. She h as not been seen since.
She was always anxious to do big
things, to make her own way in the
world have a belief that she has
taken her own way of going about max
lag good IN the big thing she had set
her mind on" Judge Lee added that
trace of the young woman should be as
sisted by the fact that her face was
pock- arked, a condition which had
caused her some concern.
Family Council Called
Members of the De Kay family who
are IN this country have been asked
by Judge Lee to confer with him here,
The brother of the young woman, John
w. De Kay jr., who accompanied her
wnen she came from London to Chi
cago to study settlement work under
Miss Jane Addams, at Hull House, is
now on his way here, and her uncle,
Henry De Kay, of Ashburn, Va, and
another uncle have been asked to come
al once. Police in the principal cities
~ the country have been enlisted in
Che search, and private detectives have
been employed.
Search for Miss De Kay was extend
ed to New York on the theory that she
might have come here to join Miss
Salter.
Made Friends on Ship
Miss De Kay accompanied Miss Salter
from Europe. On the ship, it was said,
the young women became close friends.
Miss Saiter was registered at the Hotel
Theresa, 125th Street and Seventh Ave
nue, until last Saturday, when she de-
parted without leaving any forwarding