Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1893-07-08
Disappearance Of Cicero Harrison. "

Disappearance Of Cicero Harrison.
The Norfolk Trg'ni0H has achieved o
very notable journalistic triumph in es-
tablishing the idcutity of the man who
called himself CrcEUo HARRISON, and who
disappeared from the steamship Guyan-
dOtte on recent trip.
IL has not only found out who the man
was. but has ascertRined the name, or
alleged name. Ct the mysterious young
woman who was with him at the time Of
ms disappearance, and who claimed to be
HABRIsoN's daughter
All this shows good, faithful, intelligent
repOrtorial work. But the VrginidH's
task Is not yet done. 1t must now find
The young woman who has passed out of
public view almost as completely rs If the
Tea had swallowed her up. too.
CICERO HARRISON" was Cicero liARRI-
son CASE New Yorker, aged 49, who for
some months had lived at Port Norfolk,
three miles from Norfolk city. with his
widowed daughter, Mrs. WALLACE. He IS
supposed to have been well-to-do at one
time. but had made a bad investment IN o
North Carolina gold-mine. The woman,
vino is about y. had once or twice come
TO Norfolk TO meet him. Sometimes she
called herself Mrs. HARRISON OLIVER;
at other times Mira THOMSON"
There is venerable and weIl-proved say-
ing that there is no fool like an old fool
where woman is concerned" and it
would seem to apply with great fitness to
this case. II is evident that the young
woman had hold " upon old man CASE.
and that he left Norfolk with her under
some sort of misrepresentation or compul-
sion. He drew all of his ready money out
of bank, gave good part to his daughter,
and started of. On the steamer the two oc-
cupied different state-rooms. and passed as
father ana daughter, but before the
steamer reached New York the old man
was missing. There was no place for HIM
10 60 but into the sea. BY some it is sus-
pec.ed that there was foul play and that
he was thrown overheard. To our mind,
with present lights, it is far more likely
that be committed suicide.
When his disappearance became known
the young woman was greatly concerned
about Mr.. CAsE's grip-sack, which, she
bhiu, COnbhiutu ClOV,VvV III sVVuiiblVo, anu
when the sack could not be found on the
ship she started back TO Norfolk Gas she
said 10 see If 1t was left there, and since
then she has neither been seen nor heard
OF. Certainly she has rot been to Nor
folk. IL is also shown that Mr.. CASE took
no grip-sack away with him; that he was
demonstratively atfectionate in his part
ing with his daughter and granddaughter
and gave the latter his watch and $3.50 in
money. HIS will. which has been opened.
leaves all of his property TO his daughter
and cuts off his son, who lives in Michigan.
However. except the nearly worthless
gold-mining stock no other property Of his
has been found.
There is plenty OF material upon which
20 build murder or suicide theory either.
The Norfolk detective who is working up
the case inclines to the murder theory. We
believe; but if. as We imagine, CASE had
become the victim Of the wiles of a dare
devil of . young woman, IL is easy to see
how, upon bordering the matter over in
the stiffness of the night. he preferred to
seek peace in the depths of the sea, rather
than continue his life of sin and duplicity.