The Public Ledger

FORMER DOVER GIRL IS MISSING FROM HER CINCINNATI HOME

Irene Worthington, Nine-Year-Old Daughter of Edward Worthington Missing Since Sunday.

Another mysterious disappearance in which Mason county people will be greatly interested is the disappearance on last Sunday morning at her home in Cincinnati of little Irene Worthington, the nine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Worthington, former residents of Dover, this county.

Sunday morning the girl told her mother she wanted to go to a picture show.

"I want 11 cents, mother," she said.

"There is no show around here," her mother said.

"Yes, there is. I know where one is," the girl replied.

So her mother gave her the money. That was the last time the girl was seen by her mother, who lives at 958 Martin street.

Throughout Sunday night the mother waited. All day Monday, and still no sign of the girl. And then Monday night police were notified.

The girl's father, Edward Worthington, has searched the city for trace of the girl, but with no success.

Police are asking:

Why, if the girl intended going to a show, did she wrap her silk dress in paper and take it along?

Why did she tell James Ringo, a friend of the family, who was at the home Sunday, that she was "going visiting?"

On this theory police turned their investigation to Dayton, Ky., with the hope the child went there to visit an aunt. But she did not go there.

They inquired in the vicinity of Fourth and Mill streets, where the Worthingtons formerly lived.

They learned from the mother that a certain woman who lives near the Worthingtons' old home, has made threats against the child and once tried to get authorities to place her in a home.

Failing there, police turned their attention to New Richmond, O., and Dover, Ky., two former homes of the girl. From those places no word of her appearance has been received.

Once before, police learned, the girl was away from home.

Police asked children of the neighborhood if Irene Worthington said anything to them of her intention of going "visiting", and they learned from Wilma Boehm, 8, who lives up-stairs, at 958 Martin street, that she said she was not going to church Sunday morning.

This caused police to conclude the missing girl had completed plans for a trip.

When the girl left home she wore a checkered gingham dress with a white ribbon in her hair and another ribbon around her waist. Her hat was white. She wore slippers.

Now she may be wearing a blue silk dress trimmed in white lace for this was the dress she took with her.

She had started to school, but illness forced her to remain home for several days, the mother said.