The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-08-21
The Episode of Brown the Banker

From the Cincinnati ENQUIRER.
The story of Edgar T. Brown of Wichita.
| nan, also known as Banker" B own, although
| he was not banker, is a remarkable one.
1t is story composed mostly of mystery bnt
| that mystery furnishes enough of possibility to
make very exciting DRAMA if the dramatiSt is
blessed with fervid Imagination
| Banker Br wn was formerly n Wichita
| boomer, and in a brief period realized sos 000
| in cash, the dividend declare upon nerve So n
speak. Not content with his winnings, he rein.
vested them, determined to pull out the next
time with $4,000.
But the seaso was too far advanced, and an
untimely frost nlpped the boom, and when Mr.
Brown took an inventory on last New Years
| day he found that he was several thousand do.
lars worse off than nothing at all
on Jan ~ he Went about the city and paid
off all his small debts-every penny that in.
VOWED question OF personal and social honor
having first given Mrs. Brown SlS) for Cur
rent household expenses. With several hundred
dollars and gold watch in his pocket and hand
so ne diamonds in bis Shirt front, he played a
game of billiards with q fri md then visit a q
meat shop, bought his accustomed steak
boarded street car and started II home
A square from his palatial residence he got
off the car, then suddenly and comp etely dis
appeared. His hat was found, covered with
blooi and cut through the crown as with A
bludgeon.
No other trace of him could be found by the
detectives. Some claimed that he had been
kidnapped, others that he had been murdered
and still Others that he had absconded to avoid
the importantly of his creditors
On July %, while speculation was still
rife, he came to his own back door a rae
ged, dement, d tramp, to be recognized by his
son after his wife had fed him on cold biscuir
His nead bore deep red scar, his once fins
clothes were sohed and in rags his shoes were
worn to the uppers his money, watch and dia-
mondS, like his mind, were gone.
He was taken in hand and cared for, and soon
began TO recover his mind. He could soon re.
call all his life up to o'clock on Jan. 10 when
he boarded the car for his home But from
that moment up to the morning of July "A
when he woke up in his own bed weary and
footsore, everything was an absolute blank
he had no recollection of being bludgeoned
robbed and kidnapped. He did not know how
or when he left the city. where or in what di
rection he W mt, or now lie returned
lie mad no recollection of a single place he
visited, nor have the detectives been able to
track him eth r coming or going.
once more he is completely reclothed in his
right mind and the latest STYLE and goes about
as bright, clipper AMI buSiness-like as ever.
A strange story. truly.
But SOM people think he has played fine
game OF hde-and-go-seek. His worn and ragged
clot eS seem to have been doctored
The sunburn and tan were of the most recent
date, and the so.es of his shoes had been cnt
away not worn out.
But where was he hiding. if hiding he was for
nan year! This is question that none of
them can answer
as Tor himself, he remembers nothing and
consequently cannot enliguten the perplexed
detectives F0N0U
The play ought to be entitled Browns
secret, with Brown in the title role
lie would never let it get away