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she did, especially some young men of brains and position: one whose profession or business would keep him occupied. I don’t approve of young men who have nothing to do." Reporters soon discovered that
Francis' comment was in reference to George Griscom Jr., a man Arnold had met while attending Bryn Mawr and with whom she was romantically involved. Griscom was a 40-year-old engineer who came from a wealthy Pennsylvania family, with whom he still lived at the Kenmawr Hotel in
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Pinkerton investigators searched area hospitals and other places that Arnold was known to frequent but found no trace of her. They also questioned Arnold's friends and former college classmates about her whereabouts, but none had seen her. As Keith had found literature for transatlantic ocean liners
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December 29, 1928. Shortly after her death, Keith publicly stated he believed that Arnold had died by suicide because of her
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The case gained attention again on April 8, 1921, when "during a lecture in New York, Captain John H. Ayers of the Bureau of
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on the index finger of her left hand that matched a ring she owned. The next day, Little Louie contacted
Glennoris to "finish the job." Upon returning to Weehawken, "Doc" informed the men that the woman had died at the home during an operation. Glennoris said that he and Little Louie then drove the
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By the early evening, Arnold had failed to return home for dinner. As she never missed meals without informing her family, the
Arnolds became worried. They began calling her friends to find her whereabouts, but no one had seen her. Shortly after midnight on December 13, Elsie Henry, one of Arnold's
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party. Mary offered to go with her daughter, but Arnold declined the offer, telling her mother she would call her if she found a suitable dress. She then left the family home at around 11 a.m. According to the Arnold family, she had approximately $ 25–30 cash in her possession (approximately $ 818
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February 1911, Arnold's father received a postcard signed "Dorothy" bearing a New York City postmark that read, "I am safe." While the writing matched his daughter's, Francis said he believed that someone had copied her handwriting from samples that were featured in the newspaper and that
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While the district attorney said he believed that Arnold had died at the clinic, her father said he thought the story was "...ridiculous and absolutely untrue." Keith later told the media that two months after Arnold disappeared, he got a tip from an attorney in
Pittsburgh that she was in a local
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in order to get as much publicity as possible. Arnold's father resisted the suggestion but eventually agreed. On January 25, 1911, reporters gathered at his New York City office, where he informed them of his daughter's disappearance and offered a $ 1,000 reward (approximately $ 33,000 today) for
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Glennoris initially told this story to a prison warden, who then reported it to authorities. However, upon subsequent interviews with law enforcement, Glennoris acted confused and claimed he knew nothing about Arnold's whereabouts. Police followed up on Glennoris' initial claim and excavated the
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reported that clerks at the Anglo-American Hotel had seen a veiled woman they believed to be Arnold. According to staff, Griscom and the veiled woman had an "earnest talk" they could not hear and that the woman appeared "greatly agitated". In the months following the announcement of Arnold's
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on December 16 asking for information about Dorothy's disappearance. In a return telegram, Griscom denied any knowledge of her whereabouts and claimed to know nothing of her disappearance. In early January 1911, Arnold's mother Mary and her brother John travelled to Italy by ship to forcibly
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with a man to Europe. The agents searched marriage records, but none was found bearing Arnold's name. Agents were then dispatched overseas to search ocean liners arriving from New York. While several women matching Arnold's physical description were found, Arnold herself was not.
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friends, phoned the family home to see if she had returned. Henry later said Arnold's mother answered the telephone and told her that she had returned home. When Henry asked to speak to Arnold, her mother hesitated and told Henry that Arnold had gone to bed with a headache.
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and in all that time not a single clue has been found that was worth the name. We have no evidence that a crime has been committed and the case is now one of a missing person and nothing more." Police continued to investigate reports of sightings, but none led to Arnold.
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Reporters also discovered that, in September 1910, Arnold had lied to her parents and told them she was going to visit a former Bryn Mawr classmate in Boston. Instead, she spent a week in a hotel with Griscom. Arnold's parents found out about the rendezvous after Arnold
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Outside the bookstore, Arnold ran into a female friend named Gladys King. King recalled that the two spoke briefly about Marjorie's upcoming debutante party and that Arnold seemed to be in good spirits. King then excused herself to meet her mother for lunch at the
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because she was despondent over her writing career. After her second short story was rejected, Arnold wrote a letter to Griscom expressing her disappointment over her lack of progress as a writer and alluded to suicide, stating, "Well, it has come back.
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continued to cover the story on a near daily basis. The publicity led to investigators receiving calls from people across the U.S. who claimed to have seen Arnold. These calls were investigated but proved to be false. The Arnold family also received two
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that Dr. Meredith told him that Arnold had died there after experiencing complications from an abortion. Lutz claimed that, like many of the women who had undergone abortions at the clinic and died, her body was burned in a furnace.
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cellars of several homes in the area, but did not locate any human remains. Arnold's father vehemently denied Glennoris' claims, telling reporters, "So far it appears on the face of the man's story, he is talking utter nonsense."
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in order to write. Francis forbade his daughter to move out of the family home, telling her that, "A good writer can write anywhere." Dorothy Arnold continued to pursue a writing career but found no success.
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Samuels). Arnold had an older brother, John (born December 1884) and two younger siblings: Dan Hinckley (born February 1888) and Marjorie Brewster (born August 1891). Her father was a
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also supported this reasoning after they discovered that Griscom's cousin, Andrew, had jumped to his death from an ocean liner after he had been forbidden to marry an English
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has turned me down. Failure stares me in the face. All I can see ahead is a long road with no turning. Mother will always think an accident has happened."
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which was rejected. Her friends and family, who were largely amused by her writing aspirations, teased her about the rejection, prompting Arnold to rent a
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all of her clothes and other personal belongings were accounted for. He also found personal letters with foreign
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in locating her. After these attempts proved fruitless, the family filed a missing persons report with the
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before returning home. That evening, when Arnold failed to appear for dinner, her family grew suspicious.
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woman's body back to the home in New Rochelle, wrapped the body in a sheet and buried it in the cellar.
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disappearance, Griscom spent thousands of dollars for ads in major newspapers asking her to come home.
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Over five years after Arnold's disappearance, in April 1916, a convicted felon in
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1306:. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. January 30, 1911. p. 14 – via Google News.
1279:. Providence, Rhode Island. February 22, 1911. p. 2 – via Google News.
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bookstore at 27th Street and Fifth Ave. While at Brentano's, Arnold purchased
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1406:"Dorothy Arnold's Father Despairs"
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1802:Watkins, John Elfreth (1919).
1784:Mysteries of People and Places
1781:Raybin Emert, Phyllis (1992).
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1787:. New York: Macmillan.
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1144:Spokane Daily Chronicle
653:The short horror novel
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231:Veltin School for Girls
1884:Women in New York City
1510:The Lewiston Daily Sun
1222:San Francisco Examiner
981:The Milwaukee Sentinel
822:The Milwaukee Sentinel
740:Dead Men Do Tell Tales
525:Bellevue, Pennsylvania
441:Central Park Reservoir
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1829:Katz, Hélèna (1982).
1824:historicmysteries.com
1762:Katz, Hélèna (2010).
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734:Taylor, Troy (2004).
428:That same month, the
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1869:December 1910 events
1640:The Pittsburgh Press
1538:The Gettysburg Times
633:Sumner Locke Elliott
562:West Point, New York
1479:The Capital Journal
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