Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1886-12-14


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A-aeEals o. seattle. who waa lat usan ID
Portland 81 SA1ardaF. tka 60 instant.
b o1e e the most sE1rnurdfnarV ana
mys1eEtoas events fhnt - ever en.ne
nader noliss hsrs. and ssary ~ Incl
dat teaf eomes % fiehf o1ig asspsus
soe mystery. q II now known thai ke
Wa neRusta2ing WITH ssma RaB. IS yet
unknown. fer . tieket % ihs EAa b
Eails mas - wa8 50 eet this tinEef %
shat day. Is the Eat bouna train. and
tnAs BE Went aeEosa 9hs river on tie
transfer beat - train ttms. On MOI
cay af n0on. maaRly two DAYS later, his
hat, poekefbook and care we're fuuud
un1ar tie corner Of . uarehousa near
me dspo9. On Su1d4y marninR his
overcast Was foand 10 . smoking ear e
Umatiiia, bat nothing unaas1 waa So
pectsd, sEnes tbs disappeaRAncs q Mr..
Nickel vas net eheR known. Az coon
~ Il became kneWn the HndinQ o. tue
0vsfeeat waa announced. boz the mys-
terry Vas still further dsspsned b. tie
fast thai it Was founa u q car whiah
had not started from Portland, and %
watch e m1sa have been transferred a.
umakiila Janation. Again yesterday q
new incident vas addkd 20 the mysfsrv
b. the discovery Of tks missing mans
valiss, Gus opsn and Ff8sd. on dock at
the foo9 Of enc Of the streets az the
lever part Of tue city Of Portland, IN q
situatioB thai readers it quits pr0oabls,
indeed, almos9 certain. fhat Il had bean
thrown there within eWenfY-fOuF hours
Of the time If ifB discover.
Who we're ths men With whom he was
negotiating for 9 tiokstl No one knows.
The fact that be Baa Negotiating vita
them 10 known through letieE written
BY himself 70 his family IN Seattle.
They may hsVe bean deeeivinR him about
. tioFet, and may have adopted this plan
o. procedure e . means Of 0paaiBR
the Way 10 EobbinQ him, OF 70 the con-
aaEy 20 make the paFp0as Of robbery
snccessfai. Il il altogskhsF probable,
We think, that the men had some know
lsdgs Of hin on Puget Sound, thauRh be
may not have had knowledQe of them I;
that they followed him here or fell q
With him here, and that they adopted
TIE expcdient Of the ticket, TO be deliv-
cred 20 him at the east aide,a a q msans Of
getting him into their pewsF and Of
numbering him, II necessary. fer the
money be vas supposed 20 have on bis
person.
Il u difficult to belisvs that suoh &
crime could be peFpstsated in open dag,
out the place 10 not wholly unfavorable
for ik Il is eonceivabls that it would
be possible 10 commit snch crime there
and yet escape observation. But the
manner IN which the effects Of the
missing man have been scattered, ana
the circumstances Of their discovery,
deepen the mystery at every step. II Is
. far more mysterious and remarkable
case than the murder Of Kanealy in
" the Willard ruins," and We think il
highly probable that the success Of t0af
murder vas the suggestion Of this
one. II the valise found yesterday bad
IN fact been in the place where found
no longer than one day, IL would indicate
that at least one Of the murderers was
still here, and the transfer Of the coat
from one car to another, at Umatilla,
would surely indicate that ct least one
OF them had gone as far IS that place,
and perhaps farther, toward the East.
All the obtainabls facts ought 70 be
carefully compared and studied. Here
Is ona Of the best Of opportunities for
al ingenious and constructive mind. -
Oyeg0nidH.