Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold circa 1910
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold circa 1910
Name: Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold
Case Classification: Missing
Missing Since: December 12, 1910
Location Last Seen: New York City, New York County, New York
Date of Birth: 1884 or July 1, 1885
Age: 25 years old
Race: White
Gender: Female
Height: 5' to 5'4"
Weight: 140-160 lbs.
Hair Color: Dark brown worn in a Pompadour.
Eye Color: Gray/blue
Nickname/Alias: Unknown
Distinguishing Marks/Features: Unknown
Dentals: Not Available
Fingerprints: Not Available
DNA: Not Available
Clothing: A tailor-made blue serge coat suit, hip-length, cut in at waist, skirt cut straight. A black velvet hat lined in pale Alice blue and decorated with two blue roses, a jabot of white lace. Low black shoes, silk stockings. Tan gloves.
Jewelry: A gold ring ( two gold bands twisted together) and drop earrings of Lapis Lazuli, blue and plainly set.
Additional Personal Items: Imitation tortoise comb in hair, and a fancy barrette, dark brown and deeply carved. One long, very dark blue hatcomb, of Lapis Lazuli, Carried large black fox muff, fur tipped with white points. Carried also black cloth handbag containing between 20-30 dollars, and some personal cards.
Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold was last seen on Fifth Avenue and 27th Street. On the morning of December 12, 1910, Dorothy left her parent's home at 108 East Seventy-ninth Street in Manhattan to go shopping for an evening dress. She had a bank account of her own, as well as accounts at several of the stores.She left the house at 11:30 AM, and several acquaintances stopped and spoke with her as she walked west along Fifth Avenue. Others saw her going towards a bookstore on 27th Street, where she bought a book between 1:00 and 2:00 PM. They all said that she seemed cheerful. When she failed to return to 79th Street for dinner that night, her family telephoned friends but she had not been seen by any of them.The family decided to keep Dorothy's disappearance a secret, conducting discreet investigations through a friend of the family and with the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Her parents spent thousands of dollars with the Pinkerton's but they had no more success than family attorney and friend, John S. Keith. Mr. Keith had often escorted Dorothy to social functions. For weeks, he searched hospitals, morgues and jails in New York, Boston and Philadelphia. The secret investigations continued for six weeks before the Arnold finally turned to the police and the newspapers.
Dorothy had been involved in a relationship with a man whom her family did not approve, George Griscom Jr. Mr Griscom was in Italy at the time of Dorothy's disappearance and claimed to have no knowledge of what happened to her. He did have a letter Dorothy had written him admitting that she was depressed over a recent magazine rejection to a story she had written. In the letter she claimed, "All that I can see ahead is a long road with no turning." This led some to speculate that she had committed suicide. Mr. Griscom spent a large amount of money on searching for Dorothy.
Six years after Dorothy's disappearance, a Rhode Island convict claimed that he had been paid $150 to dig her grave. He did not know the name of the person who paid him, but claimed that he looked much like Mr. Griscom. The convict also claimed that Dorothy had died after a botched abortion and was buried in the basement of a house near West Point. Police searched various basements, but never found the body of Ms. Arnold.
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