Show SCORES OF MEN EN ENIN IN SEARCH FOR FORDE DEMENTED DE GIRL Fate Fat of Girl Wandering Near Granite Stirs Entire District FOOTPRINTS FOLLOWED UNTIL TRAIL IS LOST IT IS BELIEVED SHE HAS PER PERISHED PERISHED PERISHED UNLESS SHE HAS FOUND SHELTER The fate of the demented girl who Is wandering in the vicinity of Gran Granite Granite Granite ite is attracting deep interest among the residents of the district Scores of men spurred on by the women who are alarmed over o r the plight of the un unfortunate Unfortunate fortunate fortunato girl because of the storms of yesterday and Wednesday have Joined in the hunt Although the young wo woman woman woman man has not been n located tracks left by the strange wanderer have been found which proved d that she was alive as late as 2 yesterday morn mornA ins n insA A party of young men from Granite who had taken up the search at night nightfall nightfall nightfall fall on Wednesday when Deputy Sher Sheriff Sheriff iff Joe Sharp abandoned the tue hunt and returned to Salt Lake for the night found footprints in the snow which had been made by the girl This ThI was at 9 on Wednesday night The They followed the tracks until 2 yes yesterday yesterday morning Then the tracks sud suddenly sudden suddenly denly den disappeared and the searchers I were compelled to abandon their quest Believed to Have Perished Many lany people now believe that tin th girl will not be found alive They do donot donot donot not think that she could have survived last nights storm even though she lived through yesterday Some express the opinion that If the searchers fail fall to find the body today It will be be because because because cause it Is covered by snow If It the hunt is abandoned during the next few days without the discovery of the body bod these people believe that the remains will remain where the hapless wan wanderer wanderer wanderer derer perished until summer when they will be found one ram rambling bling among the hills east of Gran Granite GranIte Granite ite The conviction that the girls girts condi condition condition tion called for the utmost exertion of those who Would ud be her rescuers caused ab Ut young men under the leadership of S A Graham son of or J A Graham to start out In the snow on m Wednesday night after Deputy Sheriff Sherlf Sharp and his assistants had abandoned the search for the night Another Search Party Yesterday another s search earch party was In the field Every nook and corner of the Walker Waller Judge Green Hilt Hill and Moses farms was searched This em embraced embraced embraced braced an area of more than two square nines mies m es As A the girl was not found the search will again be taken up today So far faras faras faras as could be learned no party went out outlast outlast outlast last night It was these young men who found the footprints of the girl and followed them until 2 yesterday morn mornIng mornIng morning Ing They started from the Graham home at Eighteenth South and Elev Eleventh Eleventh East streets and did not return to their home until worn out with their th ir long tramp and convinced that they could do no more until daylight they were forced to reluctantly give up the search y In following the footprints through the snow they were led to an old house on the Moses farm As they drew near the fhe house their hopes rose high as they believed that the girl must have taken shelter here and that the hunt was nearing an end They were vere deep deeply deeply deeply ly disappointed on finding that th the tracks led past ast the house and into a thicket to the east The girl had ap apparently apparently apparently not stopped at the house Per Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps haps not being able to understand that inside the house she would be shel sheltered sheltered from the snow and the chili chill of the night she fled tIed past it thinking only of some phantom danger back of Lap Robe Found Deputy Deput Sheriff Sharp did not go goto goto goto to Granite yesterday being detained In Salt Lake on other business of im Ini importance importance at the sheriffs office He said last night that he would hunt today The searchers yesterday examined the territory along Big Cottonwood creek from mill to Benm Benn Ben 11 bridge a distance of three miles below tHe month mo th of Big Cottonwood canyon Strips torn from a womans skirt were found These fragments caused the belief belle that the girls garments must have been torn to tatters by this tine tIme In her mad rush through the sage sagebrush sagebrush sagebrUsh brush and thickets along the creek They also aho caused greater apprehension concerning her If It her clothing has been partly torn from her It Is feared that she has even less chance of sur surviving surviving surviving the stormy weather of yester Continued on Page 3 SCORES OF MEN SEARCH FOR DEMENTED GIRL Continued from Page 1 day and last night than was sup supposed supposed supposed posed One of the searchers found a lap hap robe that had been taken from the barn of Thomas Beans at Thirteenth East between Sixteenth and anti Seven Seventeenth Seventeenth Seventeenth South streets It had been taken from the Beans Boans barn on last Friday and it is believed that it was carried away by the girl and used by her as a 3 covering at night I Flees When Accosted This theory is based upon the fact that last Friday morning Mrs Irs Davis while driving from Granite to t Salt Lake passed the girl She paid lit little little littie tle tie attention to the wanderer at the time thinking that she belonged to some neighboring house But when on her way home from Crom the city she again saw baw the girl her attention was at attracted attracted by her strange conduct When sIro was about to pass the girl she stopped and asked her if she would like a ride The girl gave her a frightened look and ran toward the Boans place placeIt It was on the same day da that the lap robe disappeared from the Roans Beans barn With this if the girl really did take it she could have covered herself at night and slept in some measure shel abel sheltered sheltered from the weather But with the poor covering gone and the th ground cov coy covered covered ered with snow her chances of sur survival survival survival vival are considered very remote It is the general belief that the girl has hao ha headed southward The search searchers ers will wll today examine the country about five miles south of the point at which she was first seen Several Theories T There are several theories concern concernIng concernIng Ing the cause of the girls presence In Inthe the vicinity of Granite Deputy Sher Sheriff SherIff iff Sharp thinks that she is the de tie demented demented member of oC some family living south of Salt Sail Lake and that her rela relatives relatives relatives tives are unwilling to admit it He be believes belIe belies lies lIe fI that the girl may have hae been insane for some time and that her rel relatives relatives relatives were nere ere careless in watching her enabling her to wander away He admits that there ar artl other the theories theories ories ones among the residents of Granite One of these the e is that the girl was taken rom Salt Lake by some evil per person person person son and drugged drug ed and that t at she was jg abandoned In the open country near neat Granite Granito According to this theory the th girl became insane either eaher through the effects of the drug or because of a a wrong which may have been done her Inquiries have been nde at the Provo Insane asylum and at other in institution to ascertain whether any pa patient patient patient tient has escaped during the past week or ten days da f The superintend superintendents of the institutions were unable to throw any Gony light lI ht upon the strange case casa of the unfortunate wanderer |