He says that the three disappeared in the crowd and he thought they joined the throng which was waiting for the northbound boat of the Hudson River Day Line.

If such was the case, the authorities believe that the party left the train and continued northward by boat in hopes of baffling the authorities.
One circumstance which lends considerable color to Hanlon's statement is the positive assurance of the child's parents that their son had no jack-knife of any description.

This, therefore, may mean that the child was not the Harrington child at all, or on the other hand, it may mean, what seams likely, that the men gave the little fellow a jack-knife as a bribe to accompany them.

Hanlon thinks that the knife was new, and is sure that the child was very proud of it.
So much of this sensational article was in conspicuous type.

The rest, in regulation type, pertained to the unsuccessful search for the child by private means.