The Leavenworth weekly times. [volume] (Leavenworth, Kan.) 1870-1880, 1878-02-07
JUDGE MAYO.
CahOkia Creek and the East 50. Louis
SIOughs 60 be Dragged-The Theory
Of Foul Play Accepted by Nr.
MaY0.s Sen.

CahOkia Creek and the East 80. I.OHi =
SIOughs TO be Dragged-The Theory
Of Foul Play Accepted by Nr.
Mayo's Sen.
[St. Louis Times, Tuesday,
The disappearance of ". l.. Mayo, re-
ported in yesterdays papers, is still a mys-
terry, not single clue TO his whereabouts
having been discovered. Mr.. Mayo left
Leavenworh, Kansas, Friday, the 18th Of
this month, for Olney, Illinois. He arrived
in St. Louis the following morning and stop
ped at the Laclede Hotel That evening he
took the Ohio and Mississippi $50 train for
Olney and was seen on the trainb by Conduct
or Brownlee after the train had crossed the
bridge Mr.. Brownlee says that
HE SPOKE To MR.. MAYO
as the train was nearing the Relay depot
and that he was then sitting in the smoking
car. The conductor doesn't reccollect see
ing him afterwards and his ticket report for
the trip gives no account of a 81. Louis
Olney ticket, which Mr.. Mayo must have
had Mr.. Mayo's cane and yalise went on
through to Cincinnati, and were afterwards
found in the smoking car, where Mr.. Mayo
was last seen.
The first intimation that his friends re-
ceived of his disappearance was last Thurs
day. Mr. Mayo was expected 20 arrive at
Olney Saturday night, January 10. He
had recently been elected a director of a
bank in Olney, and his visit was to be for
the purpose of attending a meeting of the
Alh,ar
Edwards county, Illinois, but the Olney
people knew he had been visiting his chill
dren, a grown son and daughter, in Leaven-
worth, and that he was to stop in II. Louis
and at the Laclede Hotel
on HIS WAY TO oINEY.
After waiting until last Thursday for his
arrival, his Olney friends telegraphed to
the Laclade Hotel to find out ii he was still
there. A reply was Immediately dispatch
ed that MIR. Mayo had left the city for o.
ney the Saturday evening previous. The
Olney people now became alarmed and tel
egraphed TO Mr.. Mayo's son, Lewis, at
Leavenworth, stating that Mr.. Mayo had
left ST. Louis and asking what had become
of him.
Mr. Lewis Mayo supposed that his father
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surprised when he received the telegram.
He left home the next day and arrived in
st. Louis last Saturday, and is still here.
AWAITING DEVELOPMENTS.
Mr.. Lewis Mayo has no theory to ad-
vance in regard to his fathers disappear
ance. He thinks it highly improbable that
he committed suicide, aud is certain thai,
he had no money, unless in bank checks,
with him at the time of his disappearance.
His only personal enemy that could have
wished him out Of the way is Marshall, the
defaulting cashier of the Oiney bank, and
he is now in Jail in Springfield, Ill. At
first it was supposed that this Marshall
might have had some connection with Mr..
Mayo's disappearance. and relative of his,
young man also named Marshall,
and boarding on North Eleventh.
street, between Morgan and Franklin ave
nues, was put under surveillance yesterday
on suspicion of being implicated in the old
gentleman's disappearance, but the young
man soon satisfied the police that he knew
nothing about it and was released again.
There is very little doubt that Mr.. Mayo
left the train that Saturday evening at East
ST. Louis. An expressman says that hesaw
\ man of his description in the Relay depot
THE NEXT MORNING,
and it is very likely that Mr.. Mayo was the
man seen. Mr.. Lewis MAYO SAYS that his
father is 4 very large, tall man, weighing
DDS pounds. His face is smooth and rather
long, and his hair is silvered with gray, the
old gentleman being in his sixties
Cahokia Creek was dragged for his body
yesterday, and the sloughs about East ST.
Louis will be dragged to-day.