DOROTHY'S DISAPPEARANCE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 50, 28 February 1913, Page 8

DOROTHY'S DISAPPEARANCE.

A New York correspondent writes: Speaking of mysteries, that greatest mystery of all, the Dorothy Arnold case, continues to be a topic for discussion the country over, even though more than a year has passed since Miss Arnold dropped out of sight. Perhaps the fame of that case .has hy this time reached to the remotest corners of the world. Certainly it is doubtful if if lias failed to roach t<every city in Europe, and few indeed must be the Americans who have no hoard of it. Never in the police annals of New \ ork has there been quite such a baffling problem for the detectives as that presented by the -disappearance of this girl. Dorothy Arnold was the daughter of a wealthy man, who Jived in one of the most expensive quarters in New York City in a fine house just off of Fifth Avenue east of the Park. She was a handsome, clever, attractive girl, moving among cultured people and a graduate of the best girls’ college in America. One morning in early wiutci she went out for a walk down Fifth Avenue, saying she would return in good time for luncheon. So far as is known she was never seen again. No plausible explanation could he advanced to account for her disappearance, and surely she was one of the last girls in the world to indulge in anv sensational escapade that would bring unpleasant notoriety upon herself and her family. It has often been as-

sorted that the world lias become lon small for anybody to drop out of fight without leaving any clue behind. But, however popular this notion has become in police circles, it was entirely upset by the Arnold affair. ft has been shown that in spite of a world wide search assisted by the newspapers of every large city in America and Kuropc, as well as a large amount of money spent upon private detectives, that it is possible for a girl to drop out of sight leaving no more of a due to her whereabouts than a pebble one tosses into the sea. Surely there is nothing so popular in all the newspaper sensationalism of the dav as a

nv, story that cannot he solved. Fourteen months have passed since Dorothy Arnold walked down the avenue and out of sight, the hue and cry has subsided somewhat, the police long ago got tired talking of the affair, gradually it dropped out of the columns of the press, yet tlie public has never grown tired of that amazing story. One still hears it discussed in clubs and at dinners day after day, and from dozens of places in this country and abroad the police arc continually receiving reports that the missing girl lias at last been found. A few months ago it was the custom to give such reports serious attention, hut as time wore on and they were all found to he without foundation in fact even the newspapers ignored them. The prevailing opinion is that Dorothy Arnold is dead. Of course, if that is so, the mystery in all probability will never be cleared up.