New-York tribune., 1922-03-21
Missing Coed
Found WOrkin.
As Hired Cook
sd,a TAYLOR, Daughter Of
Ny. Architect, Returns to
Chicago U. After 3 Days
of Sociological Research
soommaies'Peach' 'onHer
s,udent Known for Radical
Views Took Part in War
of University on Morons
Dispatch TO Tho T,4b,n,

-s,,r,or Dispatch TO The Tribune
CHICAGO, March 20. Miss Edna
.,~lor. Of New Canaan. Conn, Univer-
:, # Chicago student, who has been
r,.,ricusly missing since last Thurs
:. WAS found here to-day. She re-
-sd this afternoon to the home of
d.. Seymour, at a219 Berkeley Avenue,
s.rc she had been rooming. She is
:, daughter Of Alfred II. Taylor. a
s.r York architect, with Offices at 1873
r.,t sixty-hfth Street.
v.s Taylor who is twcnty-onc years
"A and 8 student of psychology at the
r-;vsrsity Of Chicago since last Sep
..-hsr had been working as cook in
!. home Of Milton f. Robinson, coal
-,rchsnt 1916 Drexcl Boulevard, from
=, time of her disappearance until
ss.urday night. 1t was through her
..,rmstes. Phyllis Kerr, of New York.
~ Eleanor Kern, of Chicago. that
piss Tsylor's parents were informed
q her disappear dllVt- HeH WlIeu TO
:, TsyIor that Edna had gone away
!, Thursday, leaving a note saying she
s,s going to visit friends in Pitts
.'r,b ard from there would proceed
.,Sew Canaan. Mr.. Taylor asked the
,iysrsity officials to notify the po-
~.of her disappearance. He retained
~ services OF Jesse Lowenhaupt, an
,tsrney, and a detective to work on
as case.
Girl Explains to Roommates
q didn't expect that [ would cause
n this excitement.' Miss Taylor said,
,.sn found. Il gave all the explana-
den thought was necessary to my
-ommstes.
five been staying here at nights
nd going out during the day answer
- advertisements for work"
The pretty blond coed, who has
zen sought franticslly by the police
4 three cities and private detectives,
a-e back voluntarily. She had read
ssnss in newspapers to-day indicat-
!, the furor which her disappearance
used
she told me she was from the
aantry and was not in good health, .
Er. Seymour told the police. "She
aid she wanted to rest up here a few
weeks before attending the university
s.s answered an 'ad' Thursday morning
She was here Friday, Saturday and
Sunday. Friday and Saturday night
Ns was gone for few hours around
Inner time"
/. was while Investigators were
tsyns into the bohemian manner OF
liying Of the girl who bobbed her hair
wore barefoot" sandals in coldest
veaths, and asked embarrassing ques
tons Of her instructors that Captain
NcCsulsy Of the Hyde Park station
called il for further questioning
Ms zylor's roommates, Miss Kerr
sad Hiss Kern.
Miss Kerr admitted that Miss Tay-
h had applied last Tuesday to the
University Of Chicago employment bu-
ssu for q job. She was sent to Mrs.
kbinson, where she worked Friday
I'd Saturday night, giving her real
ane and in no way trying to shroud
:'r identity.
New Employer Helped Her
we knew from her cooking and
''om her appearance that she was not
1 regular cook, said Mrs. Robinson,
but we wanted to help her. We took
her home each nighu-to the place she
said was home. She gave her address
as AIS Drexel Boulevard
Investigation disclosed that Miss
Taylor had never stayed at the latter
address.
Miss Taylor, in applying for the Job
and absentng herself from her room
ing house, is believed to have been pur-
sung her Investigations Of sociologi-
cal conditions, in which she is ardently
Interested
Mystery as to her whereabouts at
night and in the day when she was
not at the Robinson home, however,
s'iIl is puzzing the police.
me discovery that Miss Taylor was
WORKING at the Robinson home came
Kerr. - @ '''' "a ''' 's'
Miss Kerr also identified two men
sae believes can throw light on the
sL'iS acts One, she said, was known
M u.. Slllle' and the other was George
naacher' Of New Canaan" She was
aaid Ne'''iS' MISS Aer'
A letter writter to her mother By