The morning call., 1893-07-21
A STRANGE STORY.
Information Is Wanted
of O. D. Andrews.
4 BROTHERS ANXIOUS QUEST
an Iowa Man Discharged From the
City and County Hospital Last
Month Disappears.

Strange as are the adventures and mis-
haps of heroes and heroines IN mover ana
story, they are usually only faint images
of the actual iIlife.
A personal in yesterdays issue OF dHE
CALL read:
ANY one knowing the whereabouts OF o. d.
Andrews will be literally rewarded py report
ing same TO his brother.
The brother, Theodore Andrews. on
being questioned by reporter told the
following story:
My brother is about 42 years Of age and
has worked for the greater portion OF his
life as a clerk in store at Stevens Point.
Wis, and at Seattle. Wash. Some months
ago he returned to Orchard, Iowa. and
STAYED there until March y, on which
date he left for Chicago, where he IN
tended to apply for work in connection
with the Worlds Fair. Time moved on.
but only one letter came to his people In
Iowa. You know how it is with the home
folks, and how readily they become
alarmed. At that time l was in South
Dakota, and from reading the statement OF
their fears soon became alarmed myself.
therefore started for Chicago, and know
ing that he had taken $3.50 with him whlcn
he had, according to MY famiiy's account.
determined to deposit IN bank, at once
went around the various institutions ana
found that the money had been deposited
on the day Of his arrival. but had suDse-
Quently been Withdrawn.
This gave me no clew to his where
abouts, and on applying to the police was
advised 10 wait aw hie and then nave nand-
bills printed Uffering a reward for any IN
formation regarding the missing man that
might lead to his discovery.
For time the family waited patiently.
Suddenly. on June II. thew were surprised
by the receipt OF telegram which read:
Oscar sick at the Sutterstreet House. San
Francisco. Send money. o. ID. ANDREWS.
Il Immediately telegraphed to the Chief
of Police at San Francisco to go TO the
Sutter-Street House and find out if such IL
man was lying sick al that place. l
wanted TO make sure that the matter was
all right The Chief of Police telegraphed
me back: %. u. Andrews left the Suffer-
street House yesterday, was taken to the
hospital but on his way had Jumped out
of the vehicle and escaped and no trace Of
him could be found
Il then wrote letter TO the Chief of
Police, inclosing my brothers photograph
and description. and asked him 10 let me
know whether the appearance of the sick
man WAS at all like them. Impatient for
reply again leIeBIdpueu duu Ill dUSWeI
came that particulars would be sSent that
night by mail.
The arrival of the letter left me no
doubt that 1t was my brother who had been
sick, aud straightway | took the train for
San Francisco.
II went to the Sutter-street House, aud
at first was told 0y the clerk that my
brother had been drunk there. On ques-
tOnlDg him further he began to waver in
hap p, u
brother WIS not drunk, but that he had
spent week or more in his room without,
so FAR as he knew, eating during that time.
II was told. too, that my brother had been
taken to the hospital and on the way had
J6ss- 5ed from the vehicle. On inquiry [
learned that it was Expressman W. C..
Rowe who had started with him for the
hospital. Mr.. Rowe's brother asserted
that the man had been taken to the Recev-
ing Hospital, and, on visiting the New
City Hall, | found this to be the case. My
brother had been taken there by Officer
Wright and w. {. Rowe, so the books bore
witness and so ran Officer Wright's story.
The surgeon at the Receiving Hospital
remembered the man being brought we'll
because, he SAID, the same man had been
brought on June 6 from Al Whites saloon
and had been trea ted for poisoning. at the
saloon it was said that my brother had
taken the poison him mself and that the glass
of beer which he had drunk there and
which caused him to vomit had been his
salvation.
The Receiving Hospital surgeonsadded
that my brother had been taken to the City
and County Hospital On June 15 At the
County Hospital | was told that my brother
had been treated for alcoh olism and had
been discharged cured on June 20. After
that all trace Of him disappeared.
My brother was not drinker, but a
good. honest man. At the Sutter-street
House they insinuated that he was little
out of his mead. 1t may be SO as for years
he had been grieving for the loss of his
wife, but l think he was suffering from
the effects of poison and from hunger
lie returned from the Receiving Hospital
to the Sutter-street House on June 6 and
until the 18th Of that month he re-
mained in his room. as seems likely, with
out food. This idea is zorro borated by the
statement of ". c. Rowe that on the way
to the Receiving Hospital the man kept
striking his forehead and saying L am
hungry. | am hungry
Il also found out that while at the
Sutter-street House my brother broke a
window, and that Officer McGrath, on be-
Ing told of the matter and asked to remove
MN, declined on account of lack of au.
thority. My brother declared that he
broke the window to force the proprietors
to keep their promise of having him taken
to the hospital.
AT the Sutter-street House my brother
gave no name. but at the hospital he gave
the name Of John Jordan
Ihat is all know, and I " would be yerv
lnanklui 10 any one who would give ms
Information that would aid my search"