But strangely, after one friend called the family back asking if she had been found, the Arnolds lied and replied that yes, their daughter had safely returned home. They began inquiring about her whereabouts among family friends. That was the last time Dorothy Arnold was ever seen alive.Īs nighttime fell and she failed to return home, Arnold’s family became worried. Her friend, Gladys King, bumped into Arnold as she was leaving a nearby book shop. She was seen purchasing candy at Park and Tilford on 59th Street and a humor book titled An Engaged Girl’s Sketches at Brentano’s. Wikimedia Commons The intersection on Fifth Avenue where the heiress was reportedly last seen. But based on police investigations, the heiress made a couple of detours along the way.
She also had on a long blue coat and carried a black fox muff.Īrnold told her mother that she was headed out to buy an evening gown at a department store on Fifth Avenue. On that fateful day, she left her family home in New York City by herself dressed in proper attire including a blue tailor-made suit, a black velvet hat, and lapis lazuli matching hatpin and earrings.
Outside of work, Arnold mingled and garnered a reputation as a prestigious “society girl.”īut then, sometime between noon and 2 p.m. They were on par with the Rothschilds, the Rockefellers, and the Zwirners of today, and their name was prominently featured in the Social Register, a publication whose origins date back to the 1880s and is considered the definitive guide to New York City’s richest families.Īfter graduating from Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Arnold began to pursue her ambitions to become a writer, though she was unsuccessful in getting anything published. Peckham, and the Arnolds were generally regarded as “high-society” as one could get. Arnold, a rich perfume importer.Īrnold’s uncle was the former U.S. She was born in 1885 in New York City as the second of four children to Mary Parks Arnold and Francis R. Library of Congress Dorothy Arnold was an aspiring writer but her work was never published.īefore her mysterious disappearance, Dorothy Arnold lived a charmed life. Dorothy Arnold Led A Charmed Albeit Mysterious Life To this day, the disappearance of Dorothy Arnold remains unsolved. Or perhaps her family already found her and simply kept her in hiding due to shame. Others whispered that she was the victim of a botched abortion. Some speculated that Dorothy Arnold’s older, less prestigious boyfriend had ordered a hit on her after she refused his hand in marriage. The Arnolds were reluctant to cooperate with police, which led them to clash with investigators and spawned a plethora of conspiracy theories. Her maddening disappearance sent New York City into a tailspin of speculation, but her family’s extreme secrecy in handling the case was perhaps even more peculiar to onlookers. Shortly before Christmas 1910, the heiress to a perfume empire Dorothy Arnold vanished without a trace while shopping for an evening dress at a New York City department store. Library of Congress The disappearance of New York City socialite Dorothy Arnold remains one of the biggest “missing persons” cases in U.S.
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