He was also 44 years old. Dorothy was the daughter of a Manhattan millionaire. The Pinkerton agency thus took their investigation overseas, looking into recent marriage records and checking the passenger logs of recent steam liners. After mentioning her metaphorical, long road with no turning, she writes, Mother will always think an accident has happened. What accident? Griscom inst a todos los que conoci a llamarlo "Junior". Over the weeks following, he spent days in New York, Boston, and Philadelphia walking down lanes of hospital beds, examining nameless corpses, and peering at unfortunate young females languishing in jail. Not tonight, they said. *Burial confirmed via The Times archive - Deaths column dated March 14, 1938*Engagement confirmed via FamilySearch.org, Thank you for fulfilling this photo request. They feared their daughter was up to some kind of scandalous business, but eventually broke down, called on her friends, and asked them for clues to her whereabouts. The speech was as you would expect, filled with talk of affection and worry for the young woman, praise for the police, etc. There is another part in Dorothys aforementioned letter to George that raises an eyebrow. Dorothy, still lolling in bed, did not open the envelope or even comment on it, but tossed it aside indifferently. This account already exists, but the email address still needs to be confirmed. It was precisely the spotlight they never wanted. Lost your password? Dorothy informed her that she planned to spend the day shopping for an evening dress to wear at her sister Marjories coming-out party, five days hence on the seventeenth. One report said his doting mother still bought all his shirts and ties. To this day, the disappearance of Dorothy Arnold remains unsolved. You need a Find a Grave account to continue. When she failed to return for dinner, an increasingly worried group ate without her, then began making discreet phone calls to Dorothys close friends to ask if the girl had, by any chance, dropped in on them. Two days before leaving Boston, she visited a pawnshop on Boylston Street, obtaining $60 for $500 worth of assorted personal jewelry. Mary and Francis, however, werent having any of it. Others point out that the drugging and abducting of attractive girls was fairly common in 1910. I dont approve of young men who have nothing to do.. It was now noon. As the weeks wore on, the case grew worse than cold, it grew stale. Dorothy may have returned with a fierce hatred of them and her empty society life. Remove advertising from a memorial by sponsoring it for just $5. While in Mobile, he saw Dorothy in a store, accompanied by a young man. Looking animated and happy, they made no effort to hide their identities, or their presence in Boston. As Edward Henry Smith wrote in his Mysteries of the Missing , the Dorothy Arnold case has been called a disappearance which had from the beginning no standard in rationality, being logically both impenetrable and irreconcilable. As Keith rose to his feet, John Arnold suggested that the burned papers might be Dorothys rejected manuscript. There, because of the laxity of police supervision over the park, I believe it quite possible that she might have been murdered by garroters, and her body thrown into the lake or the reservoir. You may not upload any more photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 20 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 5 photos to this memorial, This photo was not uploaded because this memorial already has 30 photos, This photo was not uploaded because you have already uploaded 15 photos to this memorial. On Friday, Dorothy further astounded Theodora. One report said his doting mother still bought all his shirts and ties. George Griscom Jr, Arnold's boyfriend, theorized that she had committed suicide because she was despondent over her failed writing career. Son of George Stewart and Mary Elizabeth Griscom (nee Schwartz). Keith was reluctant to do so. In the words of a news account, Dorothy now found life a torment among her amused relatives.. Despite the fact that it would be difficult to recognize her after a quarter of a century, detectives were dispatched to the corner in question. CDLXXXIII). Resend Activation Email, Please check the I'm not a robot checkbox, If you want to be a Photo Volunteer you must enter a ZIP Code or select your location on the map. By modern standards, the Arnold family would seem stully and somewhat forbidding. The blow of her first story getting rejected from a publishing company was hard enough on her, but the second was unbearable. She was seen purchasing candy at Park and Tilford on 59th Street and a humor book titled An Engaged Girls Sketches at Brentanos. Her sudden disappearance shook New York City and beyond. The Mellon family is a wealthy and influential American family from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The next day, though, the Arnolds reached out to John Keith, a family friend, and attorney, for advice. Dorothysfamily was stunned to learn that she had spent a week with him earlier that year, when she claimed to be visiting some friends from college. Romantically involved with heiress Dorothy Arnold when she mysteriously disappeared on December 12, 1910. . Again she used her right name and address. It simply made no sense to the media, the public, and the police. Was she kidnapped and murdered? Then, just before Thanksgiving, she again drew her former classmate, Theodora Bates, into the complicated web of her life, when she decided to visit her friend in Washington, D.C., where Theodora was teaching. She was a woman about town and the belle of too many Uptown balls to count, but to this day, no one could ever figure out whether Dorothy was murdered, kidnapped, or stepped through some kind of inter-dimensional portal. Six years after her disappearance, an inmate at the Rhode Island State Penitentiary named Edward Glennorris claimed he helped bury a body that matched Dorothy Arnolds description. Mary Ann (Patten) Griscom, 61, of Lancaster died peacefully among her family after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease at Hospice and Community Care, Lancaster on November 25th. This may have left a lasting mark on the impressionable Dorothy, becoming her pattern of behavior when disappointed in life and love. Getting down on his knees, Keith peered into the fireplace: here he discovered a small mound of burned papers. As baffling as the case remains, it helped inaugurate the new era of intense, but extensive crime press coverage that we expect from our news sources today. But based on police investigations, the heiress made a couple of detours along the way. The sightings and fake ransom notes came flooding in, with Dorothy becoming more and more of a public fascination across the country which begged the question: what kind of woman was Dorothy, really? Cant it wait? he asked. He's a 42-year-old named George C. Griscom, Jr., but he goes by "Junior." She met him at Bryn Mawr. Some believe that she may have slipped and fallen on the icy pavement, suffering a concussion that brought on amnesia. Some speculated that Dorothy Arnolds older, less prestigious boyfriend had ordered a hit on her after she refused his hand in marriage. It was starting to look more and more like the . She decided that it contained the rejected manuscript of Dorothys second short story, Lotus Leaves. Yet there is nothing to support this assumption. 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. He remained in his room at a hotel nearly all day. The Last Grievous Deeds Giveaway Starts Today. She was under the weather after a day of shopping. She left home on foot to go shopping for an evening dress around 1:30p.m., wearing a long blue coat over a blue dress and carrying about $25. and love of course! The Arnolds feared that the case could be socially embarrassing Arnold had eloped and spent a week with George Griscom, Jr., a month before. It was made of black velvet, with two blue roses for decorationa type then called a Baker, which resembles nothing so much as an overturned dishpan. But George would never be the man the Arnolds wanted as a. GREAT NEWS! But the mystery was never truly solved. When the reservoir subsequently thawed, police went searching for Arnolds body and came up empty-handed. He died in 1920. . There have been no deathbed confessions of identity; Dorothy has not reappeared from a life of shame. The family hired private investigators instead, but they turned up few clues. It would be bad enough, the stern Francis Arnold cried out once, if the daughter I loved so well [were] lying beside her grandmother in Greenwood Cemetery, but this suspense and uncertainty are a thousand times worse., And that uncertainty was never resolved. Oops, some error occurred while uploading your photo(s). As evening approached, Francis and Mary began to worry. There she had gone to escape the anxious hours of waiting in the Arnold home. All we know is that as she walked down Fifth Avenue on the aftcrncxm of December 12, Dorothy appeared more concerned with the works of others than with her own literary efforts. When he arrived at the Arnold home, Keith was taken directly to Dorothys room. If the steam liner brochures were anything to go on, maybe she thought a change of scenery would help. Gladys had her note of acceptance in her muff, and she handed it to Dorothy with a joke about postage saved. It read: DOROTHY ARNOLD MISSING. This relationship is not possible based on lifespan dates. To make matters worse, she felt she had few champions behind her given her parents negative attitude, and had to keep a secret PO box for sending and receiving mail about her work. Some people theorized she had died during a botched abortion, but there was no evidence to back up such an assertion. All photos uploaded successfully, click on the Done button to see the photos in the gallery. Mrs. Arnold answered the phone and committed the first of several acts that caused many to believe that the family knew more than it ever let on about Dorothys disappearance. We have set your language to But at the same time no passengers were reported missing from ocean-crossing liners during the early days of her disappearance. Lawyer, Phila. This flower has been reported and will not be visible while under review. Tuscaloosa NewsA 1928 article about Dorothy Arnolds case in The Tuscaloosa News daily. Fearing that her disappearance would become a media spectacle and a source of shame for the family, the Arnolds didnt report their daughters disappearance until six weeks after the last time she was seen alive. They finally brought in the big guns: the famous Pinkerton Detective Agency, whose agent interviewed Dorothys friends, acquaintances, and classmates, but again, no dice. I believe [so] absolutely, he stated, expressing the belief that she had been set upon while walking home through Central Park. Dorothyenjoyed writing, and aspired to become a novelist. Dorothy laughed too, and the girls stood chatting for several minutes. Potential husbands shouldnt convince young women to pawn their familys items for a steamy hotel meet-up. By her will, she left her estate in trust, to pay the income to her husband and son for life; after the death of the husband to the son for life and after the death of the son . Try again later. She was born in 1885 in New York City as the second of four children to Mary Parks Arnold and Francis R. Arnold, a rich perfume importer. Failed to delete memorial. The girl who seemed to have everything has never come back in any shape or form. Not only was he much older . That day she wore a well-tailored suit, with a blue serge coat and a tight hobble skirt in a matching color; she carried both a huge silver-fox mutt and a satin handbag. Then, in mid-September, she had asked her parents if she might spend a week in Cambridge with a former college classmate named Theodora Bates. Dorothy had met him at Bryn Mawr, perhaps before she knew Junior. Yet asearch of the park turned up nothing. 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