The Washington times., 1922-01-17
GIRL Of IS
SOUGHT IN
FAR WEST
Mother and Discarded Suitor
Think Dorothy Bates Fled
With Married Admirer.

Dorothy Bates, pretty sixteen
year-old daughter Of Mr.. and Mrs.
p. H. Bates, chief Of the materials
testing division Of the Bureau Of
.Standa sas, st4bped out Of her cosy
home in Chevy Chase two weeks ago
to follow the lure of adventure, as
pictured to her by Roy Arnold, thir-
ty-seven years old and married,
partnership proprietor of o vulcan
king shop at Seventeenth and U
streets northwest. ~ D.
.. g.. So Arnold Also Missing.
Simultaneous with the diappear-
ance OF Dorothy Bates, Arnold was
missing from his home. Both the
girls mother and the wife Of Arnold
declare they believe the two left
Washington together.
Up to this morning her mother.
and the wife of Arnold. had received
no word Of the whereabouts Of the
missing girl and man, Distracted,
they informed the police, but the
trail has become SO cold that the
police are not confident of locating
the girl and Arnold.
Cheated out Of the love she had
once cherished for him, Joe Damn,
twenty.year-0ld employe Of Arnold,
living at 1S22 1 street northwest, has
sworn every aid in the pursuit Of
Arnold.
Arnold, according to Damn, be.
came acquainted with Dorothy when
she was keeping company with him
DANNY Until a few months ago
Joe had lived lust around the cor
ner" from Dorothy. He came to
know her through her acceptance of
her home to the Mckinley School.
Phone Snarls Romance.
She developed the telephone habit"
frequently calling Joe at Arnold's
shop. Arnold would frequently answer
the phone and converse with her. Joe
could do little but permit Arnold to
steal his girl. He had his Job to
keep.
In August. Dorothy stayed away
from home one night. When she re.
r,other she had been visiting at the
home of a girl friend. But 1t was
afterward shown that she had been
with Arnold. Mrs. Bates reprimandci
Dorothy, and even took her to Mrs.
Nina c. Van Wrinkle, chief of the
women's division Of the police depart
ment.
But she wouldn't heed me, and
Mrs. Van Wrinkles talk to her didn't
seem to do any good" Mrs. Bates
told The Times this morning.
Girl Wilful, Mother Says.
II haven't been able to do any
thing with her. She had bobbed hair
and was pretty and she did what she
wanted without confiding in me. II
the police department had only sent
somebody to Mr.. Arnold. they might
have stopped his attentions to her.
I have talked with Mrs. Arnold, who
has left for her home in Mobile, Ala,
since her husbands disappearance. +"
Dorothy left home on the morning
Of January 4. From a letter re-
ceived at the Eureka Auto Supply
Company, 1912 Fourteenth street
northwest, a branch Of the City Vul-
| canizing Company. jointly operated
by Arnold and c. e. Lord, an en-
velope containing notes about due
has been received from Arnold. II was
mailed at way station on a line
near Nashville, Tenn. The auto in
which the couple are believed to have
left Washington - incidently only
partly paid for by Arnold--is reported
to have been found abandoned in
Richmond.
Belief that the couple have headed
for California or the Southwest IL
based on the fact that Arnold was
once engaged as a checker on the
Harvey System. He Is known to
have friends in Los Angeles and
Texas cities. and police have started
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