The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-01-13
WAS HE KIDNAPPED?
RumOred That Young De Lima
is Held for Ransom.
HIS STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE,
The Family Hope He May Have Beer
Carried to Burop, By Accident

No Tidings from the Young Man Since Rs
Left the Hotel to visit 1t Is Now
Thought, Some Friends on the Steamer
RhyDland---Fears That He May Have
Been WayIaid Robbed and Killed.
He Had Plenty of Money.
New YORK, Jan. 13.-But one hope
now buoys up the friends and relatives Of
Edward De Lima, who mysteriously dis
appeared one week ago from his home in
the Langham Hotel on Fifth avenue.
That hope is that he was accidentally
carried Off by an European steamer and
that when she arrives at her destination
they will receive cable message from
him. In the meantime his widowed
mother waits in awful suspense for the
word that will either confirm her worst
fears or turn her sorrow to joy.
Young De Lima is only %, but he
knows the ways of the world and is
amply able to take care of himself. His
father was the late Minister to Guate-
mala, and the family are well known in
business and social circles. Edward is
connected with the firm of d. A. De
Lima, of 6S William street, and he has
considerable money in his own right.
The circumstances of his disappear
ence are peculiar. After dining at the
Langham Tuesday evening with his
mother sister and brother-n-law, he
went out to make some calls. He ex-
pected to be home in few hours, and
had made several business engagements
for the following morning Since he
left the hotel that evening not a word
has been heard from him, and the police
and private detectives have alike made
unavailing efforts to discover his where
abouts.
What alarms his friends is not alone
his absence but the failure to hear from
him. He has several times been called
suddenly from the city on business but
he invariably ON these occasions kept
his mother, to whom he was devotedly
attached, informed by telegraph as to
his whereabouts and the probable time
of his return Said his brother-in- law
this morning:
81 am certain of one thing, and that
is he thought too much of his mother
not to let her know where he was going
if he could do so. That is why we hope
he has been carried off against his
his wishes. If we do not hear when the
Rhynland arrives we must then believe
the worst.
His friends say that he had talked of
visiting some frienps who were on board
the Rhynland waiting for her to sail.
This gives them reason to hope that he
went aboard and was carried off, or that
he suddenly determined to sail and that
the message he sent to his mother was
not delivered for some reason. Bnt while
his going to the steamer gives grounds
for hope it also causes anxiety. He was
in evening dress and had considerable
money and jewelry with him.
That he might have been waylaid,
robbed and killed in the dark side
streets is quite possible. His friends de-
clare that his business and family rela-
tions were most happy, that they know
of no trouble or ENHANCEMENT to cause
him to go away, and that he was per-
fectly sane
There was rumor uptown at the
hotels last evening that he had been kid
mapped and held for ransom. His rela-
tives had not heard of it, however and it
could be traced to no reliable source.