New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-04-30
Mystery Wells
Life of Latest
Dorothy Arnold
Many Believe Woman Who
Disappeared From Dur
ham May BE Long Missing
New York City Heiress
Superior to Associates
Often Wept and Expressed
Desire to Return Home;
Seemed Used to Luxury
From q STAFF Co,respondent

NEN liza LIN I1PAiA uC pO.tSS
Of this and other cities in the vicinity
are searching for Mrs. Leon Ingraham,
Of Durham, who disappeared Saturday
after telling friends that she was
Dorothy Arnold and "had to go on
again.
The case of the real Dorothy Arnold,
who walked out of her home in New
York to so shopping one afternoon in
December, 1910, and never has xe-
turned, has become a police classic,
like that of Charlie Ross. There have
been numerous reports that her trail
had been found, but all of them proved
baseless.
From time to time young women
seeking notoriety have declared them
selves to be the missing Dorothy Arnold.
and the Arnold family does not take the
declaration of Mrs. IngraKam seri-
ously. 1t has. however, added interest
to the routine search which, in any
event, the police would have instituted
for Mrs. Ingraham, and certain cir
cumstances In the case lead some of
Mrs. Ingraham's friends to believe
that even if she was not Dorothy
Arnold, there was some mystery in
her past.
Attorney Not Interested
John S. Keith, attorney for Francis
R. Arnold, Miss Arnold's father, who
took leading part in the search for
the young; woman until her family
gave up all hope that she still lived,
was in Hartford to-day, but said that
he was there on business unrelated to
the Arnold case. He said that he did
not believe Mrs. Ingraham's statement
and took no interest in it.
When Mrs. Ingraham first appeared
in this vicinity in 1917, using the name
Dorothy Kane, she aroused the Curl
osity of her associates by her evident
worker which she sought, and by her
persistent silence as to her past. She
appeared to be in her early thirties.
She was good girl, refined and ed
ucated and very good looking said
Mrs. Edith Wiley, in whose home, in
Easthampton, Dorothy Kane rented a
room from July, 1917, to September
"She said she had just come to town
She went to work later in the Hill
Brass Company factory, but said she
did not like it.
She got money by postoffice order
from time to time in sums of less than
500. She seemed used to luxury and
had difficulty in accustoming herself
to her surroundings. She did not talk
much about who she was or where she
came from. Sometimes she would cry
and say she wished she could go back
TO her people, but she did not say who
they were"
The young woman of the mysterious
past and disconnected present was mar
ried to Leon Ingraham March 80, 1918.
lngraham had a seat near hers in the
factory Of the Hill Manufacturing
Company in Durham. The superin-
tendent had smiled in his sleeve as he
gave the young woman the job, feeling
sure from her manner that she was
visitor from another social circle
whose interest in work of any kind
and in the Hill Manufacturing Com
pany was purely sociological.
Quarreled with Husband
Recently Mrs. Ingraham and her hus-
band have had numerous differences,
and one theory of the police is that
these quarrels were the sole reason for
her disappearance and that she con-
cocted the Dorothy Arnold story with
the idea of Furnishing her husband by
gaining the utmost publicity for her
desertion of him.
George N. Francis, manager Of the
Merriam Manufacturing Company, near
Durham, where Mrs. Ingraham got
work few weeks before she left her
husband, is far from sure, however,
that there isn't more to the mystery
than that
"She was one Of the most beautiful
and accomplished young women I have
ever met" said Mr.. Francis. "She said
she had had trouble with her husband
and wanted position where she could
make enough money to return to her
people. She was not of the mill type,
either In bearing or in language.
Il gave her work, she seemed so for
lorn, and she was one Of the best
hands we ever had. Last Saturday che
resigned. We were sorry to lose her.
Then she told me she was the missing
Dorothy Arnold. I advised her to re-
turn to her people and she promised
to do 3d. AS she left she said: well,
have got to go again. 1t seems that
am always having to 60. I am
sorry"
1t was shortly after Mrs. Ingraham
went to work in the Merriam plant
that she first spoke of the Dorothy
Arnold case. Her sister-in-law. Tessie
ingraham. had seen a picture Of Doro-
tiny Arnold in a newspaper and re-
marked upon the resemblance to Mrs.
lngraham.
4 am Dorothy Arnold" said Mrs
lngraham coolly. "My father is a
prominent engineer in New York. He
mas built many plants"
Husband Doubts Story
Yes, you are!" exclaimed Tessie in
tones which reversed the meaning Of
the words.
AS true as there. is a God. Dorothy
arnold stands before YOU" Mrs. In
graham insisted.
She made the same statement to her
husband and his mother and to Mrs.
anthony Montromurri, friend. Her
husband takes no stock in the story,
however, and most of the police en-
gagged in the investigation take SIM
1iar view or else are non-commital.
Henry J. Donnelly, captain of detec-
yves here, is one of the few who takes
mrs ingraham's statement seriously.
=! have known many girls of high
socla! position" he said, "who felt
called upon to live their lives among
working people, and this fact may bring
a solution in this case, which is one Of
me me most unusual l ever have known.
Inc average working girl does not have
inc qualities that Mrs. Ingraham pos
sesses. 1t may be case Of lapse of
memory. We are working or. q dozen
tneories and clues"