The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-05-06
The Mysterious Disappearance Of
Il Sedgwick County Farmer.
The Last Seen Of him Was When rs
Purchased Aorp1in, at the West
Fad Drug stors-His Very
Strange Actions.
Where is Frank Segar?


On Thursday morning the EAGLE con-
tanned an item about a man whom the
police arrested and who gave his name at
the headquarters as Shelton, the sinner.
That man was Frank Sagar. He WAS ar
rested as then stated for insisting on the
bass drummer of the Salvation Army al
lowing him to take his place IN the even
ing parade playing the drum. Otto Koch
arrested him and put HIM in the cooler.
Nobody at the station knew who
he was till Chief Cones arrival
in the morning. When the chief went
down stairs to look at the new prisoners
him what in the name of common sense
he was doing in the cooler. Segar said
that ne really didn't know as he had no
recollection of being put in. He then told
the chief his story.
1t appears he drove in from his farm
Wednesday with some three or four hogs
he wanted to sell in order to get some
money to release an obligation that was
Hiib. iiS SOtu lIS HUGS cio OtiC
stock yards for $40 and came down town.
He obtained few drinks of liquor some
where and that is tue last he remembered
until he woke up in the city prison with
only s. in his pocket. He asked the chief
to let him out until hs could find his team
and that he would return at clock to
stand trial On charge OF drunkenness.
The chief knowing him to be a man of his
word permitted him To go out. He found
his team in a livery stable where a
policeman had put it and returned to the
police station at the appointed hour. He
plead guilty to the charge against MIN
and was fined small sum. He told Chief
Cone that he was in deep trouble; that he
needed the $40 he had lost or squandered
very badly, and he didn't know how he
could 60 home without it. lie obtained
his team and drove out of town. Yester-
day morning somebody came to town
looking for him. and failing to find him
reported the fact to the police. The chief
at once went down to the island near the
Wichita and Western bridge, where Sc
CARS mother-Mrs. Frank Yike-lives, in
hopes OF finding something concerning
him there. He learned that when Segar
left town Thursday morning he drove 30
his mothers house, unhitched the team
but did not take their harness off and put
them in the stable. He asked his mother
for piece Of paper and a pencil,
saying that he wanted to use them.
The mother offered him pen
and ink, but he refused, saying
that he wanted pencil and a pencil only.
Having received the paper and pencil he
put them in his pocket and left the island.
From that time on he has not been seen
but by two people, the clerk in the West
End drug store and Officer ke1sler, who
saw him on West Douglas avenue about
noon Thursday. About II O'Clock he en-
tered the West End drug store and called
for some morphine, saying that
he was veterinary surgeon and
wanted the drug for a sick horse.
He obtained it and signed the
record rs follows: Frank Segar V. S"
The amount of morphine he received was
sufficient to kill anybody in short time.
The probability is that he went out on
the island or down on the river bank and
took the drug and that his body is lying
there somewhere.
This Chief Cone thinks is probable as
IL.
him on Thursday morning. He told the
chief that if any accident should
happen to him to send his
team home. At that time there
was no probability of an accident happen
ing, and now the chief thinks that he had
then planned the suicide. 1t IS said that
he had made some remarks heretofore
about committing suicide
When Chief Cone ascertained all the de-
tails he concluded at once that suicide
had been committed. He accordingly de-
tailed Officers Wood and Sutton to accom-
pany him to the island to find the body. if
possible. They searched till darkness in
ierfered last night. but could fiud no trace
of the body.
They are satisfied, however, that Segar |
is dead and they Will renew the search for !
the remains today. The island Is a large /
one. containing 100 acres. and it is hard !
matter for two or three men to search it
thoroughly. The chief requests that, as |
today is Saturday and there is no school, |
at least 100 boys TO meet him at the station /
his morning at 9 o'clock to assist him in !
searching the island for the body
Segar is married man. having wife /
and three children living eight .
miles north of Cheney. He has a 4
good farm, but it is now under mortgage /
foreclosure proceedings and he was hard /
pressed financially. This, and the humli- |
iation of being put IN Jail and loosing his /
money foolishly. Was evidently the csnse
of the rash act which be has probably
committed
WILL THE CHI>E-E REGISTER?