The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-10-01
THE M'CoLLOCH CASE
In the plsappsanues and WaRdeFIngs of
tho Missing SIAn-Ths General Friend'
ship for the EFring Ex-Clerk Re-
taIned In spite OF False Step.

snip Lof the hFEmB EAHSipFA AsF
taIned In spite of a False Step.
The unabated interest in the mysterious
lisappearance Of ex.Olerk Samuel 8. Nc
Jolloch alter three years Of absence Is one
II the surprising features Of the case. Not
llpce heleit Wheeling has any publication
oeen made in the local press which caused
"a great a sensation in the community as
the statement yesterday that Samuel b.
MeColloch had been found, In spite Of
the fact that q number Of extra copies Of
Inc INTRLLIdgECRR had been printed, such |
was the demand for the paper that
he forms had to be placed on
The press aysin and second
edition run of. This feeling generally ex,
pressed about town yesterday was one Of
rejoicing that the missing man had been
discovered and he aud Mrs, MCUolloGh re-
united. While all felt that he had made
a false step, no disposition was shown TO
blame him now, and the warm friendship
almost everybody felt for the man In past
years seemed unaffected by tho &C.
Currelce, ,
Much is now known OF the missing
mans movements, but yet much remRins
unexplained, His wife remained I'M
Wheeling, residing with DR.. Baird, un,,
till the past summer, when she accepted
a position in Connecticut. His two dsught-
era arc in Minneapolis, Miss Maria resid'
ING with her married sister, Mrs, Williams
None Of them ever received q hint OF the
whereabouts 'oS the missing husband and
father until his handwriting furnished a
clue, which was followed up by Mr.. Frew
with such happy results
THE MISSING MANS MOVEMENTS,
From what 10 now known Of Mr. Nc
Colloch's movements, a pretty definite
idea Of the course he took when leaving
Wheeling can be formed. 1t will be re-
membered that the Pinkerton detective
employed on the case reported that q man
whom he believed to b6 MCColloch left
Wheeling in the Baltimore < Ohio sleep
Or on the night Of tho lG.h Of November,
1855 going to Cincinnati. This was
probably correct.
He must have gone from there to Chi.
Csgo, where no WAS seen, as now believed,
at a cattle show, and thence blythe Cen
trail Pacific railroad into Utah, WhenG9 he
went north 10 the Northern Pacific road,
coming into Montana from the West. He
frat secured position in q restaurant at
Helena, ne learned from letter no wrote
to bis WHO in accordance with the advice
Of Mr.. Frew, which letter Mrs. MCColloch
sent to DR.. Baird here.
There Is reason to suspect that Mr. AIc'
ColloCh was In disguise or changed his
appearance by ghaving of his beard,
while in Helena. u Is q striking CoinCi.
dence that while no was employed in
restaurant there, George h, Nngle, ex.
Sheriff OF this county, was boarding two
doors from that restaurant on the same
street, being at the time member Of the
territorial Legislature Of Montana, which
met in Helena.
WHAT MR., TINaLE SAYS.
All that winter Of 1884 two OoplOs Of the
INrELLlaENcER went regularly to Helena,
one to Mr.. Tingle and the other
to samuel Brown" Yot Mr.. Tipgle
never saw MCColloCh, although he fro
quently ate in that restaurant, the only
one In Helena. II does not Reem possible
that the two men could have remained SO
long in town OF 5000 or 0,000 popula.
ton and never meet, hence the suspicion
that MCColloCh WRs disguised. 1t Is Mr..
Tingle's theory advanced above that
MCGollCCh Camo from tho West into
Montana.
His reason for this belief Ia that he fur
nished all conductors on the Northern
Pacific railroad with minute descriptions
and photographs OF the missing man, and
urged them to exercise great vigilance
upon all trains going West TO geo that the
fugitive did not pass unnoliCed. They
we're all confident that he never did 70
West over the road.
Mr.. Tingle says II McCollocb, who must
have known Of his presence in Helena,
had approached him, he would gladly
have exercised his influence with the
President OF the N. p. road TO secure q
good position for his old friend. Presi-
dent Hill was a personal friend Of Mr..
Tingle's, and would have jumped at a
chance to grant 80 slight favor to men,
Der OF the Legislature.
HIS PRESENT POSITION.
After leaving the restaurant at Helena,
Mr.. McColloch for 9 time was track.
walker near that place on the N. P.rosd,
A few months ago he received better
position, as storekeeper for q company
building short road from Gorham to
Helena, and he Is now serving In this
capacity at Gorham.
MIR. Jingle expects to be in Helena In
about two weeks from now, and a friend
yesterday wrote Mr.. MCOolloch Of this
TACT, telling him to be sure and see Jingle.
Mr.. Tingle says he will be glad 10 do
what he can to secure bis advancement,
and he has reason 10 believe he can &c.
complish something In that direction.
II Is safe to conjecture that
Mr.. MCColloCh will DO the recipient
Of numerous letters from Wheeling as
soon as Uncle Sans mails can carry them,
Some important business matters can be
Strengthened out by word from him, and
these will be brought to his attention,
while numerous old friends will sim.
| ply write him letters Of sympathy
clue to his reason for leaving
Ia furniahed by his own reference TO hnan.
ctal matters. His finances could not have
induced a man whose mind was not wor.
ried and troubled to do as he did. There.
fore 1t IL still generally believed that he
was to some degree affected In his mind
when he left home.
A CRUEL ISLANDER.
The Jealousy OF the evening alleged
newspaper led 1t last night to make pub.
LEGATION which was cruel as well as maliCi.
GUS. 1t asserted that "shortly after Nc.
Colloch's disappearance he was definitely
located In Meagher county, Montana
The petty motives which inspired such q
deliberate ialSehood are 80 apparent and
the source 60 thoroughly irresponsible
that the statement might pass unnotiOed
but for the cruel wrong II does certain par.
ties. DR.. Baird requests the INTELLidENCER
10 nav nm hhhRli Of tha family that 10 rala.