New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1891-07-06
A BROTHERS. LONG QUEST.
MYSTERIOUS DsAPPEARAvCE OF A MAN.
FREDERICK II. NUNS DROPPED OUT OF SIGHT
AND MS FRIENDS COULD FIND 40

women dropping ont Of the ranks, with record OF
absent and accounted forr Often there comes
Heating back TO the shores Of the living some bit Of
drftwood bearing upon It mark or cl-w to tell the
story Of the dead Yet many disappear and are gone
and gone forever leaving no trace behind
Again and again the question arises IN the courts as
10 whether long absent is really in the land OF
tie living, and occasionally man Judclally deter
mined dead b. the court appears 10 the CONSERVATION
Of positive Witnesses did Griffith Gaunt, Of the
story or the actress. Dolc Davis, recently In
the suicide case at Tarfy town.
The rule In these cas- seems 10 be the one laid
down by the General Term Of the Supreme Court in
the matter of the Judicial settlement Of The account OF
Agernon ;. Sullivan. public administrator a. 0dminis
traitor ETC., OF Richard To5n deceased as reported in
the Supreme Court reports
Letters Of administration upon the estate Of Richard
Tobin, who Gied In the city f New-Yorl on January
49, 1884. were Issued by the Surrogate to tie public
administrator. Upon an accounting made tefJre the
Surrogate by the public administrator on July 3, 1855
the administrator directed t. pay oneqIarter Of
the estate OF Michael Tobn, one-quarer Ellen Coohe
and the residue, namely, One-af Of the estate. into
the city treasury for the benefit equally Of John Tobn
and Mary MOliOy, two Of the next OF Lin Of the do
ceasE At that time It was not Known whether
either John Tobin or Mary Molloy was living. In the
month Of October, 1885, the other two next OF kin.
namely, Michael TCbin ard Ellen Coodc b. whom tho
in Melbourne and in sydney, in Australia where John
Tobin and Mary Mooy he'd gone eighteen years
previously and by correspondence and other like acts.
endeavorcd 70 ascertain whether these relatives
living, and If where they were and II not II they
left descendants. Being satisfied from the evidence
which they were able to obtain at these abscntcs Of
whom they had not heard for over seven years were
dead they applied 20 the Surrogate In January, 1883
for modification Of the previous decree ard for pay
If NJ Tphi nd
Mary Moloy, Of the portion which had been originally
paid into the city treasury In due course Of the ad-
mnistration Of Richard TObins estate. The Sur
rogate however, not satisfied OF the sufciency Cf
the proof then adduced and denied the application but
with leave to renew the same Subsequently, upon
further evidence, the order appealed from made.
After an absence OF seven years, without any in
telgence of him by those who would be likely to hear
from him by letter or otherwise, the person will be
presumed to be dead. This presumption has been
extended so to lead to the conclusion, in the
absence Of any evidence whatever Of actual living HAT
the death took place at the end Of the seven year.
In the SurOg1tes Court recently interesting story
is told Of the disappearance Of Frederick II. Nuns
Of this city, and the efforts made for his discovery.
The story of his disappearance is best told by the
testimony given before the referee, Judge Gedney
Mary L. Clark sNOTe:
am sister Of Frederick Il. Nuns. In 1896 he
business in the south He wrote 10 US from New
fon asE nj aY b t s5 70 TESS 'g M
This was In 1oG6. did not know exactly where
he was IN Washington County. He near he sold
there. About 1870 he gave UP the cotton panta-
ton, and he opened general store at crossroad in
Washington County That he said, about twcn.y
miles from the Mississippi. He was some distance, he
said from post2nlce or railroad lie came East In
that time had several conversations with hin. lie
he qfal Ifp all 4hp
postal facilities were not good. and that the reason
he did not write oftcneF, he was 50 far away from
August or first of August, 1873. When he left nc
he said he was going back to his place IN Mississippi
from his home in Mississippi when Lore lie spoke u
returning to ana an his letters spoke Of lis
knew Of and he had ties 70 binl him in Mississippi
not any
larry upon average year two years. There
were seven years In which he wrote one or two times.
st. Louis after 1873, and he wrote TO from there
then he would tell me when he expected to De- there
were offered in evidence and married. ceTicat5n. ali
breathing affection and sp'aIng Of HIS return. There
letter was dated IN December Issa
] have not heard from my brother since. '1y broth
Tomato character. He never intim'ned h. was mar
ricd. OR last letter from him Was in 1s76.
Vile. the county town Of Washin.ton Courtv ana in
april, 15s9, wrote t. the postmaster Of each town in
information about my brother but without success.
further wrote to the sheriff and tex collector 0f Wash
Pg9n Cunt who @n;Te he that his , T dd S;
years an7 during this year have written { TIE county
clerk Of every COUNT In Mississippi IN loO' Ont WITH
Wherever as I; result Of these INQUIRIES. w learned
Of any name that lie my brothers. I cndCavord
10 ascertain who II was, but always with faure as TIE
result. wr0t, Ia the frm Of Nunn Anderson IN
sRF lad been informed b. anu n brother John H.
Mann tina cho Num- Of this Hrm was not my bnothHr
F i1 GG5 man T have rGe eve 'q B,H T
S S 9n Of 70 ''f R @ be fea ID nT ha% S
no idea whore he died.
The story Of the brothers. efforts 10 find the lost one
is full of interest. John Nunn said:
reside at No so West Twenty -e!ghthst. at present
and a brother Of the former witness ! remember IA
1857 in booking in Brdsreet's reports for men doing
found the names OF Nunn az Anderson and Num- ~
Evans They were near Shaqual&t, Miss met IN
salesman for Hood, Donbrlth d Co., OF Philado
phla lie said he knew this Nunn of NuEn q Ander
thought tailed With my brothers appearance
asked lin If he would not when ne next Visited
said he woud. lie made Inquiries ! saw hin
atterwari and he said that this Mr. Num- was not
had seen and asked him if hc d,d not know anything
of Nunn IL Evans. Tie usnc Num- Is common IN
'iG Ieft eSY6ri March = 1890 determined to find
my brother if possible went pur1osely, 70 md him;
W
the Census Eurclu 10 see if the name Of Nuns up
pear.d In the returns from Washin gOn County. I'D
not find the name of Nuns. | had a cousin In Wash
in.,,On and went 10 tnc Census Bureau he made The
search Tor NY brothers name but could not md H.
went T. Cincinnati. my brother brCu ght Is took
there stayed there five days, inquiriHg for hin
among the wholesale houses 10 sec II could lind par
dee who had sod goods 70 him.. found no one who
could 90 back a. far ! wanted. ! went
10 the steamboat Offices ard tie scsrbpa's
on the river, ard the captains. l inquired ~
them without avail. When my brother ~ home
In 1868 he had send piano to Cincinnati and from
there It Wa shipped down the Ohio and Mississippi
rivers 70 him. ] thought Tat clew AID tried
10 follow I; UP In Cincinnati. but without 1t
wa far fJr the officers n trace bach there had
been IaRny changes; vessels had been burned OIL
GERS changed Us well the management, you eco
they would nave 70 20 back twenty years. 4
went U LcuiS hing there CHI 1880
In ST. Louis vent 10 a great many OF the Wholesale
houses ! must have gone - twenty, bus couli not
learn anything Of Inn. went To auction houses also
because nv brother had said he bought goods auction
in ST Louis for his customers, that class Of goods
suited them Just Is We'll
There was a ilTIa I'm st. Louis brother had been
in the habit OF trading with NOrtlTupt & March.
Tried 10 find that firm bit the aun had dissolved. |
tried TO- find tho late members Of the finn but without