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Show i LOST 1 NEW YORK iMM ' IBM k Thousands of Disappearances I Reported to Police Annually. K Esther Maiide Mearson's Case Rtnm- jE bles In Many Respects That of 1 Ruth Wheeler Who Was Mur- w dered. !K New York. Exhaustive search by w (he police In every nook anil corner M of Now York failed to reveal tha slightest trace of Esther Maude Me&r- 4 eon, ag5d sixteen, who mysteriously disappeared after starting out to seek -work as a Btonographer. 9 The caoo resembles In mnny re. I epects that of Kuth Wheeler, who 1 also sought employment as a Bten- ographer and went to tho rooms of Al- liort Wolter, whoro sho wnB mur- i dered and her body burned and put J into a sack. It Is another of tho many strange disappearances of n great I city's daily lifo. i In fact, tho parents of Esther Moar- son, having in mind tho sad fato of '1 lluth when their own daughter went J In search of employment, cautioned ffl her against going to prlvato residences I for work or answering, post card re- I quests for help as did lluth Wheeler, g Esther, an unusually attractive girl, J - well proportioned and largo for her ", ago, was also warned to bo careful of her conduct while In tho presence ' of strange men A jflftiii , It waa Lyoq Pearson, brother or "", 'fao mlsiilng girl who first notified tho i police or her disappearance. Lyon, a ' graduate of the Now York law school, ) Is employed In the ofllco of a largo - l&w firm. Joseph Moarson, tho girl's ; father, Is a retired Jowolry and dry I;5 . goods salesman. There nro Boven chll- dren in tho family. They live at 107 East Ono Hundred and Twonty-thlrd street. Esther left school two years ago and beenmo a pupil In the Hebrew ' Technical Institute, whero sho look a special courso Upon leaving the Institute In-stitute she took up tho study of stenography sten-ography nt her homo and before long became proficient In It While It was not necessary for her to seek employment, employ-ment, the girl did not wish to bo idlo. Mrs. Mcarson was tho only mem- a ber of the family to talk with Esther Monday morning, when tho girl was I preparing to coptinuo her quest of a position. Tho girl was raoro confl- i dent than evor sho would find n placo K4 whero thero would bo a chanco of ad- II vancement She told hor mother that in wus tho kind of a position sho was W frying for. a "I will ho homo as soon as 1 can, H mother," said Esther, as sho kissed Bj her parent -goodby. "I will bo glad Kg if I find tho place I am looking for hell he-ll cause I need something to occupy my W mind." A woman describing herself as Mrs. J. F. Kennedy went to Bee Mrs. Mear-ft Mear-ft son and told hor that she wac pretty '' " - II Ml II 1 1II J sure that sho had oeeu Esther on Third nvenue near Ono Hundred and Twenty-Fifth street. Mre4Ktnncdy said she saw a mlddlaV'onian in tho neighborhood of fifty, say, accost tho girl, calling hor "ralsa." The girl. Mrs? Kennedy says, stopped and the two wero Btlll talking when Airs. Kennedy went on about her own affairs. Thousands of vitch cnoes come to tho notlco of tho Gotham police every ev-ery year Sotno of tho disappearing persons return after they hnvo been away a sliort tlmo and tho public hears nothing more of them. Others never are"found and go down in tho annalB or tho pollco department a unexplained mysteries. |