The New York herald., 1921-05-03
ARNOLD ATTORNEY
DENIES IDENTITY
Marks on Mrs. Ingraham's
Body Show She Was Not
Missing Dorothy.
DESCRIPTIONS COMPARED
Thinks Ingraham Was Sincere
in Belief but Mistakenly
Influenced.
DESCRIPTIONS COMPARED

Special Despatch 10 THE NEW foRK HERALD.
HARTFORD, May 2.--John S. Keith. at
torney for the family of Dorothy
search for the girl since she disap-
peared in 1911. was told tonight OF cer-
tain markings on the body of Mrs. Leon
Albert Ingraham, who confessed" that
she was Dorothy Arnold, and of certain
filings In Mrs. Ingraham's teeth Mr.
Keith said that these markings and
filings convinced him absolutely that
Mrs Ingraham was not Dorothy Arnold.
Dorothy Arnold" said Mr.. Keith
had no such marks on her body and
she had no such filings in her teeth"
Mrs. Ingraham's husband was asked
tonight at his home in Durham to de-
scribe the Filings in his wife's teeth
and marks on her body. which would be
positive Identification. He said that she
had gold filings In two upper front
teeth and cement filings in her back
teeth, and also in several in the front
teetl of the lower jaw. He said also
that she had three moles on her right
shoulder near the collarbone, two OF
them SO high up that they would show
with evening clothes He also said again
that his wife was a fine pianist.
Descriptions of these markings and
Filings were carefully written and shown
10 Mr. Keith in the Bond Hotel Annex
Lere tonight. Besides saying that Dor
othy Arnold had no such marks he said
also that Dorothy Arnold did not play
the piano when she disappeared and had
never been musically inclined. He said
further that apparently Mrs. Ingraham
did not have on her body certain dis
tinguishing marks possessed by Dorothy.
Arnold. which have been kept secret by
the Arnold family and which have been
applied as a final test on the numerous
women who from time to time during
TIE last ten years have claimed to be
The missing girl.
Mr. Keith said that he believes Ingra-
ham is sincere in his belief that his wife
is Dorothy Arnold, but believes that he
has been influenced by a recent state
ment mistakenly credited to Capt Ayers
of the New York Police Department, in
which Capt. Ayers was supposed TO have
said that the Dorothy Arnold case was
no longer a mystery. Ingraham admits
that he has always taken great interest
in the case and has followed 1t in the
newspapers since the disappearance OF
the girl,
Ingraham told a reporter for TIE
NEW YORK HERALD that his wife. to
whom he refers now as Dorothy Arnold
was drugged ana kidnapped by two men,
who pushed her into cab drawn up al
the Fifth avenue curb near Twenty
seventh street on the afternoon of De-
cember IL. 1910 Mrs Ingraham dlsap-
peared from her home a week ago Satur-
day. and Ingraham says he believes she
has gone away because she feared her
identity was about TO be disclosed
through former New York resident
who knew her in the old days and who
has recently been In Durham.
Ingraham said that he married Mrs
Tngraham under the name OF Dorothy
Marshall, in Middletown, on March 80
1918. A year and half later, he said
she told him she was Dorothy Arnold
and begged him not to tell anyone. She
then. he said, told her the story of her
adventures after she had been kid
mapped. She regained consciousness
| having been drugged after being pushed
into the cab, and found that she was ir
furnished room in Chicago. From