The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1875-10-11
ANorHLR pEsr SIDE MYSTERY.
The Disappearance of Ninth Wnrder-Was
he Murdered for Moncy or KevenEet

Within the last three mouths the Ninth
ward has wonderfully increased its reputation
the theatre OF mysteries. The neighborhod
Of sixth avenue and West Eleventh street has
Ia less than quarter OF year furnished ma
teral for no fewer than half dozen arst-class
sensations. Here the residence of sporting
gentleman was ransacked by burglars in broad
daylight; a Third street clerk was here indicted
into the mysteries Of crime, his training bearing
fruit In due season wheu he embczzlcd property
belonging to hts employer; here Appeared
long mi ssed salesman whose whereabouts had
BEEN q secret for thirty-one years; here the
honest residents discovered that one OF their
most noticeable neighbots was robber and
cOunterfeiter; and here. to close the list, two
gentlemen living on opposite sides Of the street
walked out for m airing one night and nave
never since been seen or heard q.
one OF these was Georse w. James who re-
sided at 10 West Eleventh street. tie left his
house AT about O'Clock ON the evening Of sept;
10, and all Efforts Oh the part VI mis- mily and
fruitltss. lie was about ~ years OF age, OF me
dium height and slight build, with brown hair
and heard, and tlue ewes. lie was Of
pleasant addres-, and scrupulously neat In
years, aud had one child apout year
old. Between min self and his wife the strong
est affection existed and no one Who knew him
could give any plausible reason Tor his inten-
tional al scfcr, surprising thut he had Nolunti-
rily rem med away from MS family
IWutr SURGE GAYS o. iS-rd h,f RE his absence
hernn s.riuu-l. alarm Mr. Jauic- hut as
the missing man, SIZE Gee tme nearly frantic.
Friends tcltgrtphed and Wr To- ~ cf"ry point
where M James WIS known TO have buSine -
relations, but no news Of hin could ne DOT incd.
At the .ime Of his unaccounta able disappear
ancc he " = IN PARTNERSHIP WITH ms brother al
SIS Broadway, engaged IN the sale OF n patent
x s-saving apparatus, and We mad been success
ful In business. On the day of his di>appear-
ance he had received sou uy express. and prob
ably had this money on his person when ne LETT
his home. Up 10 that day he had gone regu-
latly TO the Fair 81 the American Institute,
where his gas-sayng apparatus was on eXnioi-
tiOn, but IN the day In q iestion he was not seen
al the Fair. Some Of his friends think That he
may have been waNiaid and murdered while on
the way thither In the evening Bur others say
that, as ne was strictly temperate man. and
one VINO neither eambled nor had association
with fast men, aud as he always went "rmed
-iuce he robned OF Sl2yO "A year ago the
murder theory Is an imp Ohahlc one.
Some OF the missing mans frcnds openly ex-
press the otiuion tnat he hus necn murdered hy
| men who had an object in getting hun out Of
the way While III the coal business in Jersey
| CITY Mi James was made director In the bogus
| Pail sades Insurance Company When that was
| eXpt,ded he applied himself to the I SIX of un-
| g rthing aud furnishing the swindl' Re. and was
| the uuucipal witness against them, one was
| sent 20 state prison. ana another was about e.
| be placed on o. 4 when Mr.. j imcs disappeared
| lie had previously told his friends tn he was
in danger, ana spoke paTticdl rly II the II GUS
| ton htrs ct gang" whose ne idquarters HOus.
| ton street and Bro DIV y. w,rr near ui' place OF
! business, and who, he feared, mad BEEN EN-
plOy ed to assass inate INN.