Show I 1 Former Ogden Girl Missing L Puzzles San Diego Police I SAN DIEGO Jan 12 The 12 disappearance i last Wednesday of Miss I Irene Curtis kindergarten director I of the San Diego public schools has has furnished local police with one of of the most puzzling mysteries recorded recorded re- re corded in San Diego police cir clr les Miss Curtis was formerly a resident rest rest- dent of Ogden Utah and was vas well known there Ten years ago she i was a teacher in the Madison I school in that city Thursday morning three Los An- An women came into the La LaJolla LaJolla Jolla police substation with a hat coat and purse which they said they found on a boulder almost at atthe atthe the waters water's edge in a a. cove just belov below be- be low v La Jolla park The purse contained con S tamed several small articles of jewelry jew jew- dry elry which have been identified by friends as belonging to the missing woman While the former fonner Ogden girl was was' apparently in good health local detectives detectives de- de investigating her disappearance e say they have learned that she had been in ill health for the last ten years and that she was occasionally despondent as a result of this condition Investigation reveals that Miss 1 Curtis Cu wrote her father W. W D. D Curtis Curtis Cur Cur- wealthy manufacturer of MadIson Mad Mad- Ison Wis a letter on the afternoon she disappeared Other letters written by her on the same afternoon after ater- noon to several teacher friends in inthis inthis this city fail to throw any light lighton on her actions and the police are awaiting word from her father in inthe inthe the hope that in the letter to him she may have revealed her Throughout Sunday and Monday two boats were used to patrol the rugged shore for fot several miles in each direction from the cove in which Miss Curtis Curtis' belongings were found These efforts however have revealed no trace of her body While friends of the missing woman woman wo- wo man with several hired investigators investigators gators are working on the the theory of police are are- working on onit onit it from the angle of drowning |