Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-10-28
MYSTERIOUS CRIES
HEARD BY POSSE nv
SEARCHING GIRL
Means Heard Coming From
Dense Underground in Fresh
Ponds Section
SEARCHING Is RESUMED
Work With Renewed vigor--
Search for Man is Started
in Perth Amb0y

NEW BRUNSWICK, Oct. 2S.-
Mysterious cries and means said to
have come from the dense under
growth directly in the rear of the
school house are the only indications
of the possible whereabouts of Stella
Ostroski. the six and a half year old
child who disappeared at O'Clock
Tuesday afternoon after she had
been at play in front of the Fresh
Ponds school house while waiting
for her older sister to accompany
her on the two mile walk home.
Members of the posse securing
the country for the missing child
heard the cries just after nightfall
yesterday and the search was con-
tinued with renewed vigor for some
time. With the aid of flashlights the
wild thickets of BRAN mbles and under
brush in the vicinity of the point
from which the cries are thought to
have come were thoroughly looked
over. but it was said by members of
the posse that shortly after the
search with lights began the cries
ceased.
The theory has been advanced
that if the child were caught in the
underbrush she became frightened
at the lights and failed to signal
further. The report of the cries
heard seems to have stirred the
result of them 1t is hoped that
continued securing of the region wiu
bring the girl to light. --.-e e
One hundred and forty Boy Scouts
were on the job in tn woods yester-
day, working until dark. and are
continuing their aid today. County
Detective Ferd A. David. directing
the searchers, has spread a general
alarm throughout that section of the
country and has attempted to scatter
broadcast a description of the girl
in the hope that in case she has
merely become lost on some of the
lonely roads and paths she will be
picked up.
Hope is still expressed that Stella
is merely lost and will be found
shortly, but at the same time every
clue which would tend to indicate
the possibility of a crime is being
investigated by Detective David,
who spent all of yesterday in inter-
viewing persons connected with the
case. Many stories were traced by
David yesterday, but in most cases
when the source was reached the
only foundation for the tales proved
to be rumor.
Varied stories of strangers seen or
said to have been seen in the vicinity
have been investigated and proved
to be fancy rather than fact, and
with the exception of one story, none
of the tales run down have shed any
new light on the case. Prominent
among the rumors of crime in con-
nection with Stella's disappearance
is the linking of Alex Pefsky. for
he - Co
said to have had trouble with the
family, with the vanishing of the
girl. Clues to this mans present
location are being run down, Detec-
tive David said.
The original story that the child
had been chased into the woods by
playmate was partially corrobor-
ated yesterday when the detective
questioned Walter Dimienny. the
seven year old boy who was sup
posed to have chased the girl. The
boy was terror stricken and refused
for some time to answer the queries
of the detective but finally admitted
that Stella had tripped him and that
in retaliation he had struck her with
a stick. He said Stella had started
to cry and run in the direction of
the wagon sheds. behind which she
uOOBeQ ana Idlleu 10 TedppedT-
Mrs. Mary Shuch, who lives near
Davidson Mills fast line trolley
station told Detective David yester-
day that on Tuesday afternoon she
had seen a strange girl who might
have been the missing child. waiting
at the crossing for the car. Investi-
cation shattered this theory when it
was found that the girl was a resi-
dent of the neighborhood.
Alvin Flavell of Highland Park.
was in the vicinity of the Fresh Pond
school playing ball on Tuesday aft
ernoon at the time of the disappear
ance of Stella. His testimony given
TO David, was to the effect that
when the child ran crying down the
road she went in the opposite direc-
ton from that which she should
have taken.
The prosecutors office is in re-
ceipt of information from a Newark |
truck driver who claims that while |
riding TO Philadelphia about |
o'clock Wednesday morning he saw
a man walking along the road with |
a girl answering the description |
given in newspaper report he read |
The county detectives
are investigating this angle of the |
mystery.