Extracted from The Brooklyn Daily Eagle (Brooklyn, NY)
Wednesday, November 27, 1935

Hunt Musa Goodman; Vanished After Tryst

Mother, Famous Deep Sea Diver, Reveals Daughter as Missing Since Oct. 9 -- Publicity Avoided Until Father Died

Mrs. Margaret Campbell Goodman, once internationally famous as the only woman deep-sea diver in the world, revealed today at her home 104 Kenilworth Place, that her 28-year-old daughter, Musa Burdett Goodman, has been missing since Oct. 9.

Her disappearance had been concealed behind a confidential alarm from the Missing Persons Bureau until today when full publicity was asked because the vanished girl's father fell dead at home last night.

On Oct. 9, Mrs. Goodman said, her daughter left their then home at 203 Allen Ave., Gerritsen Beach, saying she was going to visit a sick friend.

The mother told reporters she realizes now that the sick friend was a man with whom Musa had been deeply in love for many months.

The girl telephoned to her mother on Oct. 11 and said she would be home the next day to join her parents in the celebration of their 35th wedding anniversary. She failed to appear, but telephoned again on the 14th, and said her friend had died and that she had decided not to come home because she did not want to burden her parents with her support.

On Nov. 7 her parents received from Musa a letter, postmarked at the Fordham station in the Bronx, informing them that she was working as a domestic in the Fordham section. She had not written before, she wrote, because she had had tonsillitis.

“As soon as I get on my feet,” she concluded, “I'll send you money each week. I am not going to desert you or daddy and tell him not to worry about me, because everything will be all right.”