Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1923-11-14
IDENTITY 14yEAR OLD
GIRL IN WATERV|LLE
PUZZLES AUTHORITIES

Who is little Anna Levy? The
identity of this IA year old girl who
was found on the Waterville rail-
road station platform last Friday
afternoon is puzZling police author
tiles and several Waterville citizens
who are taking a keen interest in the
case.
Anna seems to be q very bright
girl and was able to tell a very CO.
herent but improbable story con-
corning her identity and her reasons
for being in this part of the country.
But even though she said that her
mother lives at 1913 Madison avenue,
New York city kilograms to that adj
dress have brought forth no answer.
William II. Murray. chief of the Wa
terville police department telegraph
ed to the New York police and they
investigated the address at 103 Mad
ison street but found no one there
by the name of Mrs. David Levy
which was the name the little girl
gave to be her mother.
The police officer who was on the
station beat at the time the after
noon train from Oakland pulled in
noticed the little girl soon after
standing on the platform looking
very scared and lonesome. He Ques-
toned her and she said that two
days before her mother had received
a letter from her father who had
been missing for several years. Ac-
cording to her story the letter read
that Mr.. Levy was working in a mill
at Oakland, Maine and wanted his
wife to come to that town and meet
him. Mrs. Levy was unable to come
SO she sent her daughter and the
little girl after hunting through the
Oakland mills was unable to find her
father and came on to Waterville.
City Marshall Murray placed Anna
in the care of the Waterville Wo-
mans Association and there she told
about the same story adding that her
mother had given her SIS for her
return fare to New Yok but that an
ugly looking man had sat down side
of her on the train and after he had
gone she discovered that she had lost
the SIS and she believed that the
man had stolen it.
When questioned further Anna
stated that she had gone to public
school in New York city on Madison
street known as P. S. No. /. On the
theory that the little girl might have
run away from an orphan asylum
BIG was dUOuI anu
she seemed to be we'll acquainted
with the workings of such an insti-
tute but when asked If she had not
lived in one she said no but that she
had a cousin who had lived in one
on Madison street which was not
far from her home.
AS Anna is little Jewish girl sew
eral prominent Jewish citizens of
Waterville became interested in her
and Mr.. and1 Mrs. Samuel Vein took
her to their house on College avenue
for a short time and later she went
to the home Of Mrs. Florence Mintz,
IS Spruce street. The Jewish people
have also started sending out mes
sages to locate relatives or friends
of the girl but thus far have had no
results.
Anna seems to be perfectly content
to live in Waterville and when the
reporter asked her last night If she
would like to go back to New York
to live with her mother she said she
would not but had rather live in
Waterville. Anna is a good sized
girl for her age, IA years, she is fair
ly well dressed wearing a small hat
with turneI down brim with a rib
bon around it. She Is also wearing
o dark brown winter coat with a
belt around 1t and dark brown