Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-07-06
He WAS IN THIS CITY.
MOrriSon's Mysterious
Disappearance.
FOUL PLAY Is SUSPECTED.
Hour For Marriage Had Arrived and
Bride Was Waiting.

The mystery surrounding the disappear
ance OF Patrick Morrison, the Westerly
stonecutter, who was to have been married
on Tuesday, June 2s, in that town, to Miss
Annie Healy, still continues, and is as un-
fathomable up to the present as on the
morning when he failed to put in his APP
pearance to take part in the marriage
ceremony.
notwithstanding that every effort has
been made to trace him, no clue to his
movements can be found since he parted
with his cousin, Miss Nellie Shea of
Central Falls, on Monday afternoon, June
"a.
He came up here on that day from
Westerly to give her personal invitation
to attend his wedding, and also TO make
some necessary purchases in Providence
Morrison had been away from his home
I'm Westerly for some time. He had been
working at the Barre, VT, granite quarries
as stonecutter and more recently at Car
bondale, near Scranton, Pa. He returned
to Westerly from Carbondale on Saturday,
June 20, and apparently was very happy
in contemplation of his approaching
marriage to the young woman he had
been courting for years.
He went to Stonington and obtained a
marriage license, previous to visiting
Providence and Central Falls.
Tuesday morning when the hour for
the marriage arrived the friends of Nor
rison and his bride that was to be were
gathered in st. Michaels Church at Wes-
terly and Rev. FIR. Briscoe was ready to
perform the ceremony. But the bride
groom did not appear, and the party dis
persed with sense of fear that something
dreadful had happened.
As the days passed his nearest friends
became convinced that he was the victim
of foul play. 1t was known that he had
considerable money in his possession, and
it was said that he intended to deposit
$500 in a Providence bank.
On Wednesday his trunk was opened by
his father and he found in it wedding
| suit nicely arranged, a life insurance
policy for 81 900 issued by the Equitable
Company OF New York and made payable
to his father, and a number of other
articles. There was nothing among his
effects to suggest any intention of not full
filling the marriage plans which he visited
Westerly to execute.
1t has been learned that Morrison went
to the parcel room at the depot i'm Provi-
dence after making his purchases and pre-
sumably before coming to Pawtucket and
left there package which he said con-
tanned some iewelry, and he asked that 1t
ba al fnr no. To- ~
There Is rumor circulated in Westerly
that later in the day man, not Morrison,
called for the package, but he did not have
the check given for it, and could not OBJ
tain the parcel. Later another man ap-
peared with the necessary check and OBJ
tanned the parcel.
At the railroad station this story is par
TALLY verified, but the man in charge can
not tell whether the one who obtained the
package on presentation of the check was
Morrison or another. Believing that he
had large sum Of money with him, his
relatives are harassed by growing dread
that he is the victim of foul play, in which
robbery was the motive for molesting
him. He was not known by many in this
city or Providence, and this makes it diff
cult to trace his movements after leaving
his cousin at Central Falls.
Morrison came to Westerly on Satur-
day evening last, direct from Carbondale,
Pa, where he had been stopping at the
Harrison House. A telegram has been
received from the proprietor of that hotel
seating that Morrison left Carbondale on
Saturday, June %, and had not been
heard OF by the people there since that
time.