The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1885-10-07
MYSTEHrouSLY DISAPPEARED.
Men who are Suddenly Missed In tho Great
CITY mud Mover Hcnrd nf Amin.


The mysterious disappearance, the sud-
den sinking away from sight of q man, ia a
commonplace in police annals. 1t is tuch
an every day occurrence in the great city
that some papers even refuse to make men,
ton Of half the cases reported to them.
Sometimes two or three mysterious disap-
pearances are reported in one day and no
one pays attention to them except the in.
terested friends and relatives. or course
the stereotyped information and description
are telegraphed to every police station and
read out to every officer and detective, but
with so many constantly recurring cases the
mind refuses to be burdened with the dry
details and the average officer forgets the
description before the reading is fairly end
ed. Now and then, say once month, o
prominent gentleman, n millionaire, q pro-
fessional man or public official is swallow.
cd up in the list of mysteriously disappear.
ed. Then the gulping down of the new
victim is one days sensation to be forgot.
ten tomorrow in the newer sensation that
the next day brings.
1t is only such cities as London, Paris
and New York that can suck down into its
living mael-strom so many human lives and
leave behind no single trace. Other cities
of the Union now and then report miss
| ing victim, but sooner or later the detailf
| of his death or the fact of his voluntary
| flight are made manifest. Not SO with New
York. The head of the family, staid, lie.
| spectacle, rich, happy in his domestic re.
lations, strolls out for an evening walk idly
| swinging his cane, and from the moment
The door of the house closes upon him he is
| forever dead 10 oil who knew him. He
never returns and no human eye ever secs
him again. The story is an old, old one,
and hundred illustrations could be cited.
Take that of DIR. Richard @. Brandeis,
prosperous physician with a family, to
whom he was devoted, possessing perfect
health and good bank account. One
morning last winter he left his homo, at No
So West Thirty-third street, to deliver hia
customary lecture ct tho hospital. The lee
sure was as interesting as usual, and the
doctor left his classes to return home. But
his home never saw him again. That night
ho uiu uot Ietulu uilu LIB waning WHO nout
out an alarm. All over the city and coun-
try the news of his disappearance was
flashed, coupled with reward for informa-
ton of him. The family hired detectives,
flooded the country with portraits Of the
missing physician, and advertised in the
papers, Not word of explanation was re-
ceiyed. That was seven months ago.
Go down to the docks to-day, [step into
Police Headquarters at Denver, or at San
Francisco, or in London and Paris and you
will find the picture of tho missing man
staring at you with an offer of reward.
And at home the house has been kept just
AZ he left il, that should the dear husband
return the same surroundings shall greet
him that bade him farewell when he left.
SO with Stillman S. Conant, the editor of
Harper'S Weekly. One night he, too, fail
ed to return and never since have tidings of
the missing man come to hand. From EIori-
Ia, from the West, occasional rumors have
been run to earth only to result in nothing.
Scores of bodies of the drowned have been
sainly examined, horrible task, and still
no trace of the missing has been found.
The fate of the mysteriously disappeared is
one MS secret ms the grave itself, and from
that bourne no traveller has yet returned to
tell of strange experiences at the hands Of
silent enemies.