LOST AND FOUND.

Evening Post, Volume LXXVII, Issue 144, 19 June 1909, Page 10

LOST AND FOUND.

What looks like another case of kidnapping (writes the New York correspondent of the Daily Telegraph) is agitating all America. Every newspaper is devoting about as much space to the attempt to solve the mystery as the European journals are giving to the crisis in the Ottoman Empire. Adele Boas, the fitteeii-year-olcl daughter of wealthy parents living on the west side ot this city, disappeared^ in broad daylight, and her distracted parents are oiiering £1000 for her recovery. Not the least amazing development in the aftair is the admission oi a police officer that it is not sale for a well-dressed girl to walk in the streets of the best residential districts of New York alone. Moreover, it is notorious how daugerous it is Cor any gentleman to be uuaccompanied after midnight, even in the heart of the city Stories of robbery by professional ruffians- are of weekly occurrence, and the (Jhief Commissioner himself has more than once asked the Board of Aldermen to sanction an increase bf the police force. The parents of Adele Boas insist that the child has been kidnapped, J but the police are more inclined to believe she ran away fiom home, and in this they seem t<J be supported by the stories that she and her mother had quarrelled, i Ihe daughter is said to havo been heard to exclaim, "UnliJ recently I couldn't even go to school .without a maid along ■fthh aie, while everybody in my class made fun of my being a mamma's girl."' Some of her girl ciiuins say she had fits of melancholy, and may have committed' suicide. Altogether the newspapers have succeeded ia rousing the fathers and mothers of the city into an extraordinary state of excitement, which has not been lessened by the unconfirmed rumour that the girl had sloped with the chauffeur. She appears to have been popular with boys ot her own age, for on the night of her disappearance- fully fifty called at her home tc enquire for news of her. Ihe street in which the parents live- is blocked all day long by automobiles conveying visitors leaving their cards, and the house is surrounded by crowds of women on the lookout for the newest de\elopment and the latest sensation. Thousands of lithographs of the 1 girl have already been, printed, and appear all over the west side. Two days later, the same correspondent wrote; — While thousands of detectives throughout the Eastern States | were scouring the country to find a trace I of Adele Boas, that little lady came j home all by herself from Boston this J evening. She seems to have left New York merely on a sudden impulse with -j twenty dollars in Tier pocket. She landed in Boston, and spent the night ! in a boarding-house, and actually worked one day as a maidservant. She devoted hours in wondering at the beauties ■of the "Hub of the Universe." Then, when she saw the papel-s with her father's offer of £1000 for her return she promptly bought a ticket for New York. The first thing she said to the crowd of reporters at the station was, "See, I have come voluntarily, so poppa won't have .to pay that five thousand dollars." She had exactly, one dollar left, and was so tired she" could hardly stand. At least a hundred and fifty persons on the trip from Boston demanded to know if she were the missing Adele. She _ denied the soft impeachment with j spirit and success. r a A reporter, who identified her at Stamford, telegraphed to her father, who welcomed her with \ tears streaming down his face upon her arrival in New York. Her stockings v- ere badly torn. When the carriage ! drove her home he picked her up in his J arms and carried her into the house I like a naughty child, a crowd several thousand strong cheering loudly. -;