Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1892-11-02
rnonAnLY MURDERED.
a san Trnncisco NAN Goes to chicago
ana Disappears.

CHICAGO, Nov. The San Fran.
cisco Chronicle learns that Robert q.
Weeks o! 6lg O'Fartcll street. San
Francisco, has probably been muir.
dcfed by Chicago footpals. lie ar.
rived IN this city from New York
about October 9Th, ana has not hecn
seen since the morning or October l9ih.
The story OF Weeks appearance 10
and disappearance from Chicago IL q
strange Que. He has been q railroad
man for some ten years. a year or 10
ago he went 10 work for the Chicago
AMI Erie Railroad as brakeman.
While IN the employment Of that com
psny he wus run over by train,
losing one arm and receiving severe
Injuries about the head. Erwin q.
Davis, New York City lawyer, took
up his case and n month ago scared
Judgment against the company for
$500 damages. After securing por.
ton OF the judgment money Weeks
started for home. lie was physical
wreck Rnd could not stand 10 travel.
The next heard OF him was ON
October 9th, when he was taken 10 the
Cook county hospital in a patrol
wagon. He knew he vas unable TO
travel any more alone aud Induced
the hospital authorities 90 write TO
his mother, asking for some one to
come 10 Chicago and 20 on with him.
Thursday last his sister, MIS-. Ramona
Fitzpatrick, arrived Ia the city and,
believing her brother was stlll in the
hospital, went there At once. She
learned that the hospital authorities
had pronounced him "uOt a hospital
g. a..
ilmary at Dunning on the following
day, October 9Th.
His slater telephoned 10 tho lnfitm.
AIRY at Dnnning and was told that her
brother had left there four days or
week before, saying that he was going
home 10 San Francisco. The same
day she received n telegram from
her mother saying that her brother
had not arrived In San Fran
cisco. When Weeks sister first called
at the county hospital she was referred
10 Miss Dalglelsb, the head nurse In
ward 10. In speaking OF the head
nurse Mrs. Fitzpatrick said: 81 did not
ask her about my brothers money, but
he told mo he had large amount-in
Ill 5000. She told me he bad large
roll Of greenbacks, which understood
TO mean paper money. She said she
saw tho money In his possession. The
doctor who attended him at the county
hospital wrote US saying that Robert
was very sick anu was not likely 10
recover, and was astonished TO learn
that he had been allowed 10 leave the
infirmary, especially rs We had tele.
graphed that was ooming.to Chicago
10 travel home with him."
Weeks sister l. nm utter stranger in
the city, and on learning that her
brother had left Dunning and had
not arrived home she applied 10 the
police at Desplaines street station
for assistance. Captain Mahoney
listened TO her story and gave
orders 10 all his officers TO make
etloTtsto find young Weeks somewhere
in the city. Today, in company with
n reporter, the sister visited Dunning,
L. b. Norton, the assistant superin.
tendent of the county intirmary, said;
ayes, / remember Robert Weeks. He
was horo In tue consumptive ward AMI
left ON October 18th, saying ho was
going home to San Francisco. Another
man who had been IN the same ward
went with him. Weeks had some
money and n check Tor $500"
Mr.. Norton then produced the book
shown that Robert Weeks had been
on October 9th and had len
the Institution October 18th. The
book also showed that Weeks had left
a check Tor $40 with tho custodian
and that he had signed for AMI
received his property when no
won't away from the Institution.
Weeks sister examined and identified
her brothers signature. When asked
about the roll OF paper money Weeks
was said to have had Mi. Norton de.
MED any knowledge Of ii,
A visit was then paid TO the con-
sumptiNe ward, where Weeks was
treated while ut tho inflrmary. From
the attendants here II was learned that
Weeks left In company with Michael
Scott, another patient on the evening
OF October 18th. Nothing was heard
Of them after they left the inilrmsry