Waterbury evening Democrat., 1892-01-13
WAS HE KIDNAPPED?
Rumored That Young De Lima
 is Held for Ransom.
HIS STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE.
The Family Hope He May Have Been
 Carried to Europe By Accident.

N" Tidings from the Young Man Since He Left the Hotel to Visit, It is Now Thought, Some Friends on the Steamer Rhypland---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 a 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 23, 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-in-1aw, 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 word has been heard from him, and the police aud private detectives have alike made
 1N1 abouts.
 What alarms his friends is not alone his absence but the failure to hear iron 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 tC his whereabouts and the probable time of his return. Said his brother-in law this morning:
 II 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 O visiting some frienps who were on board the Rhynland waiting for her to sail This gives them reason to hope that h' went aboard and was carried off, or tha he suddenly determined to sail and tha the message he sent to his mother wa not delivered for some reason. Bnt whilt his going to the steamer gives ground for hope it also causes anxiety. He wa in evening dress and had considerabl money and jewelry with him.
 That he might have been waylaid robbed and killed in the dark sid streets is quite possible. His friends de clare that his business and family rela tions were most happy, that they kno1 of no trouble or entanglement to caus him to go away, and that he was pel l fectly sane.
 There was a rumor uptown at tn | hotels last evening that he had been kic mapped and held for ransom. His relt tives had not heard of it, however, and | could be traced to no reliable source.