Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-28
A MYSTERY UNSOLVED.

The Continued Absence of Monroe Sheire--
His Friends Becoming Alarmed---The
"Globe" Institutes Search.
The continued absence of Monroe Sheire,
together with his persistently maintained
silence, has at length aroused his friends to
action, and it has been taken none too soon
to quiet the apprehensions alike of his rela-
tives, of his friends, and of the public at
large. The GLOBE was the first city news
paper to devote it's attention to Mr.. Sheire' s
mysterious disappearance, and pub
ished, on the 18th inst, state
ments of DR.. Bryant, of this city,
and Mrs. Sheire, concerning the matter. It
was then stated, in substance, that DR.. Bry-
ant had left Mr.. Sheire in st. Louis on
March &c, when the doctor left St. Louis for
home, and, on the same day, Mr.. Sheire was
to have departed for Sioux City by steam
boat. Mrs. Sheire's last letter from her hus-
hand was dated from St. Louis on the day
DR.. Bryant left there. Since then, nothing
has been revealed respecting the missing
gentleman's whereabouts.
The suspense has deepened from day to
day into painful anxiety, until tho worst
fears as to Mr.. Sheire's safety and we'll
being are beginning to be entertained His
absence is all the more inexplicable from the
fact that, SO far as developed, there is no
substantial reason why, in the first place, he
should remain away at all, and why,
i'll the second, he should cease
all correspondence, and especially
with his family. Overshadowing all this
mystery is the precarious condition of Mr.
Sheire's health, which, as previously stated
i'll the GLOBE, would appear to be of men
tai character"
These questions now present themselves:
Is Mr.. Sheire lying sick in some obscure
place among strangers, and hence his silence
and absence? Is he alive at all? Has he be-
come mentally deranged? Has he been fouly
dealt with?
The first query can be easily met in the
negative. Mr.. Sheire, as is we'll known, is a
member of many secret organizations,f and
he was in the constant habit of carrying
about with him the certificates of such mem
bership. These would at once lead both to
his identity and to instant communication
with his brethren here. For these reasons,
therefore, the sickness theory, as it may be
termed, may be deemed to be exploded. But
the other three questions are not
so readily capable of answer. With the
view, however, of arriving at some solution
of the mystery, the GLOBE instituted
special telegraphlc inquiries on its own 40
count on Friday last, taking St. Louis as the
basis. AS Mr.. Sheire had expressed his in
tention to DR.. Bryant of visiting his son, j.
M. Sheire, at Sioux City, and to journey
thither by steamboat up the Missouri,
the GLOBE telegraphed to the St..
Louis steamboat agency, and received
the following reply, under date from st.
Louis, April 26:
Special Telegram to the Globe.]
ST.. LOUIS, April 26.-It is not known wheth-
er Monroe Sheire left st. Louis for Sioux City
or not
Simultaneously with the inquiry from the
steamboat company, the GLOBE telegraphed
to the chief of police of St. Louis, and re-
ceived in reply the following specialtelegram
from that official, under date OF April 81:
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
ST. LOUIS April g. Ionroe Sheire left the
IIaclede hotel, this city, on the morning of
March rs, saying nothing about his destina-
tion. On leaving, he made this pencil mark on
the register opposite his name Ancient Order
of United Workmen." I cannot ascertain his
present whereabouts, or direction taken
Yesterday. GLOBE reporter encountered
DR.. Bryant, who was then in search of in.
AoflAaIlon concerning the missing man. Ihe
reporter informed DR.. Bryant that the GLOBE
had also been instituting enquiries, after
which it was determined to telegraph to J.
M. Sheire, at Sioux City, the
son of Mr.. Sheire, whom the latter
had expressed his determination of visiting
when the doctor left Mr.. Sheire on the 26th
ult. This following pointed question was
transmitted over the wires:
Have you heard from your father? Answer
DR.. Bryant, in response, received the fol.
lowing answer in due course:
No; have not.
And thus the matter rests for the present
in all its narrowing suspense, with all the
dreadful possibilities suggested in the three
last questions above propounded still un.
solved, and their enigmas still unriddled.