The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-09-07
FOUL PLAY 1
 THEORY IN CASE
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(Continued from Page One) able to start the vehicle By that time many other car; had passed over the road but they decided to follow their original plan and follow the car. Put ting on speed they went dash1ng over the speeding Ford. Their efforts went to naught. however. when they reached a fork in the road from which three roads lead.
 Taking to the left they inquired at the various farmhouses along the way if the car had been seen. but neigh bors professed ignorance as to the mystery car. Members of the Bureau l of Investigation were detailed to Fair l field this morning whre rigid probe l will be made in an effort to locate the missing car. The road the car trav- | ersed leads to Jennings Pond and po- lice today were contemplating drag ging the pond if their search for the girl proved futile.
 Miss Bradner Quizzed.
 Members of the bureau of investi- gation this morning questioned Miss Alice Bradner who last night said that she had seen a car containing
 four four girls and four young fellows tear down East Main street at a reckless rate of speed with the girls hoMering at the top of their voices. This story l was conroborated in but one detail this morning by Marcus Schless and Louis Rubenstein, who are employed as clerks in the Bernstein Bootery at the | corner or ttamllCOn SLreeL dIlo EGSSL I Main. Schless said that the car came along and stopped directly cp- posite the store and that two Of the fellows got out, apparently to pur- chase something in nearby stores. They returned to the car in short while and turning around, one of the girls, hollered to Schless to
 Drop in and see us when you are in New Haven" Police are of the op1n- I ion that if they locate this car they | will be able to solve the mysterious
 circumstances surrounding the disap- pearance of the girl and are bending 1 every effort in this direction.
 1 Mother Frustrated.
 | In the meantime the mother of the ] missing girl sits and pines in her pretty little home on Brooks street her daughter. With her are her three other daughters and son son. John,
 Jessie's twin brother. At frequent in
 tervals she can be seen to rise rom l she has sat throughout the terrible ordeal, and enter the house, only to return within a short while her eyes | covered by a white linen handker- ! chief. Neighbors flock to the house
 in droves offering their sympathy in
 a vain attempt to comfort the anxious
 mother. Jessie was just a home girl ! It's so strange. I can't understand it, ,'
 she told a Times reporter. ''I know | she would not leave of her own ac- l cord. There was absolutely no reason | why she should.
 School Chums Anxious.
 Yesterday, about ten of her high school chums came to the house to | Inquire about her and I asked all of | them if they knew of any chums she | might have had that I did not know.
 They can't understand it either. It | all seems so strange. do hope the
 police will find her''
 Another element of mystery that en-
 tered the story this morning was as
 to the point at which the girl entered 1.-the automobile if she did or how she 1 left the house. According to the
 mother she made two trips to the
 store and returned each time to the house. She was about to make an l other with her mother so that she | might procure a few pencils and a | the school opening the next day. The I mother noticed that the sash she wore | on her dress was hanging to one side
 and spoke to her of it.
 | She entered the house to change the dress. which apparently she did l as black dress belonging to her sis
 ter is missing and no trace of her has has
 been seen since. Whether sne' !edt t | known. The mother in the meantime
 proceeded slowly up the stneet ex- | pecting the daughter to fohow but
 this she failed to do. Supt. Flanagan announced this morning that he was conducting an l investigation to determine the officer l who is accused by Miss Bradner or l having seen the ear speed down East
 Main street and to have heard the | shrtM cries emitted from it, but paid no attention to the incident. Pending 1 a complete investigation as to the truth of the story the officers name will be withheld.
 Coincidental with the disappear l ance of the Whelan girl is the almost as mysterious disappearance of Lf1- Han Krysinke of 622 Noble avenue, a
 pretty 16 year old miss. who disap- l peared from her home on Saturday l morning. In their Investigation of
 this case the police have determined
 that the girl went as far as Stamford
 in a motorcycle and there purchased
 a ticket for New York. The father
 of the girl went to New York yester-
 day in an attempt to locate mys-
 terious ''Blondy'' believed to be a
 chance acquaintance of the girl and
 whom she is believed to have left for
 New York to see. According to re-
 port made at police headquarters this
 morning this man could not be found
 in New York but the trail led to
 Mount Kisco and the father left for
 there today. Whether he had any
 definite information as to her being
 in that place could not be learned