The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-11-24
4 WEEK AGo TODAY
CLERK mcoLLocH WAS MISSED
And SUI Not clus to nIsWh.relbolts Can b
FONDA Boy who Claims to Have Seen Him
5. Last Saturday HornluG-DetsetIIts Work.
Ing on the CaSe-rhO Greek Dragged.

Another day has passed, and last night q
week had gone since Sam Mccolloch was last
seen. He has disappeared as utterly as II the
ground had opened and swallowed him up.
DR.. Baird, Mr.. McColloch's brothsr'in.lsw,
said yesterday that he was convinced that
the missing man was dead, and he expects his
body to be found along the river some place.
''It he had wandered off," said the Doctor,
'under the influence Of insane impulse, or
alteration, we certainly would have neard Of
him. His disappearance has been well ad.
yertised, and descriptions and photographs
OF him have been scattered all over the
country. He is easily identified. yet not
sign Of his having been seen has been re-
celved.n
The Doctor has been sarching carefully
for any traces OF Mr.. McColloch's clothing,
or any signs Of a struggle or crime, but SO
far In vain.
Many Others, on the contrary, believe that
the absence OF any proofs OF murder or any
trace OF the body OF the missing man, ID evi.
d nee that he Is still alive but when asked
"Where is he2" they give4tup. o.
ABJY's STORY.
Harry Ripley, boy who carries the INTEt-
IIGEScER, taid yesterday that he had seen
MIR. McColloch on Market street, crossing
Fourteenth, on Saturday moruing last u
little before FIVE o'clock. This, II true, throw
flood OF light on the cSse, but the boy was
probably mistaken. He said he was coming
to the lRTELLtGENcER office to get his papers
at the hour named, and as he crossed Market
street he saw Mr.. McColloch crossing Four
tenth, going up the west side OF the stree'.
A market WAGON passed, and whea 1t was
out OF the road the man was nearly 10 the
Opera House entrance. He thought no mo! Q
of II until he heard Of the disappearance.
After he reached the Office, got his papers
aud was going up Fourteenth street agatn,
old Mr.. Howard Mr.. William Howard,
father Of the architect.l passed down Market
street.
when asked why he had not told this
story before, be said he had told II at home
the business department Of the tSTELLGES-
GER, however, says he asked several news
boys, one OF whom was Ripley, II any Of
them had seen McColloch, and several said
no, while none replied that they had.
THE cRElH DRAGGED.
A careful search OF the creek was made
yesterday with drag seine, but no clue to
the mystery was brought to light. There wss
Wltl rutluE tuht Luuu buuS HAu bseA AZ
covered, but there was no foundation for It.
Paddy Mahoney and bis assistant, who
went down the river on Thursday In skis,
returned ycs.erasy with no tidlngs Of inter-
est. They followed both banks OF the river
as far as BaIcsville, and circulated tie de.
s:ription and portrait OF the missing man.
Two detectives are in the city working on
the case, but with the meagre clues at com.
mand, aud latter the careful work OF Capt.
Bennett and his efficient assistants, 1t is not
10 bs hoped that they can accomplish muck.
A man acq tainted with the material with
which he has 10 wclk Is Of much more ser
vice in the case.
There has bsen nothing new in the case
this week but speculation. The facts that
are known to be facts we're oil In the posses
sion OF the missing mans friends last Mon.
day. All reports received since that time
are either disproyed, or are bat repe,itions Of
former stories.
Yesterdays Bellaire Tribune says: AT St
Clairsville last night, they had a dispatch
saying that 8. B. McColloch had turned up at
MI. Pleasant, Ohio. There was no foundation
for 1t, and no word Is heard OF his where
abouts.