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Ninety-five years ago, a young heiress stepped out of a bookstore and into a mystery.
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold, 25, was the daughter of a millionaire importer, Francis Arnold, and the niece of a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
A lively, dependable girl and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Dorothy was beautiful, intelligent and popular among New York's diamond circle.
On Monday morning, Dec. 12, 1910, she told her mother that she was going shopping for a new evening gown.
Mrs. Arnold offered to accompany her daughter, but Dorothy declined.
"Oh, no, I wouldn't put you to that trouble for the world," Mrs. Arnold recalled Dorothy saying. "When I select the dress I shall telephone you. Then you can come down and look it over."
No call ever came.
Her family did not worry when Dorothy failed to return that evening. Dorothy had many girlfriends, and it was not unusual for her to spend the night at the home of one of them. But it was unusual for her to neglect to call and tell her family where she was.
When there was still no sign of her the next morning, her family knew something was wrong. Instead of rushing to police, her publicity-shy father first called in a family friend, lawyer John Keith.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/326630p-279266c.html
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold, 25, was the daughter of a millionaire importer, Francis Arnold, and the niece of a U.S. Supreme Court justice.
A lively, dependable girl and a graduate of Bryn Mawr College, Dorothy was beautiful, intelligent and popular among New York's diamond circle.
On Monday morning, Dec. 12, 1910, she told her mother that she was going shopping for a new evening gown.
Mrs. Arnold offered to accompany her daughter, but Dorothy declined.
"Oh, no, I wouldn't put you to that trouble for the world," Mrs. Arnold recalled Dorothy saying. "When I select the dress I shall telephone you. Then you can come down and look it over."
No call ever came.
Her family did not worry when Dorothy failed to return that evening. Dorothy had many girlfriends, and it was not unusual for her to spend the night at the home of one of them. But it was unusual for her to neglect to call and tell her family where she was.
When there was still no sign of her the next morning, her family knew something was wrong. Instead of rushing to police, her publicity-shy father first called in a family friend, lawyer John Keith.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/crime_file/story/326630p-279266c.html