The morning call., 1893-06-07
WHERE is RYAN? ?
Another Insurance Man
Is Mourned.
Brown, Craig s Co. Are Looking for
the Return of Man From
the Springs.

Another insurance solicitor has gone
wrong in the person of James E. Ryan,
who was in the employ of Brown, Craig &
Co.. at the corner of Montgomery and Cal
ifornia streets.
Since week ago last Friday neither
Mrs. Ryan nor Brown, Craig & Co. have
seen anything of Ryan. The manager of
the insurance firm yesterday said that
Ryan had some ten days ago been found
to be short in turning in his accounts. A
bill for small premium on an insurance
effected by him had been sent out and
found TO have been paid. An investiga-
tion was instituted. and the solicitor was
found short between $500 and $1,000 In
premiums which he had collected and
failed to turn i'll.
He had. however, disappeared, and,
although the matter was placed in the
bands of the police. nothing mas been seen
of him by those WHO have been anxious to
catch him since the 26th of May, when he
left his house and appeared at the Office of
Brown, Craig 81 Co.
Yet his brother yesterday said that he
had seen him on Market street last Thurs
day, June 1.
TIE manager of Brown. Craig & Co.
stated that the amount embeZzled was less
than $1,000 and that Ryan had always ap-
peared to them to bs man of good habits
and always temperate.
Il don't see how he could have spent
the money. He was not eXtravagant even
in his clolhes."
A neighbor of RYAN who knows him
well said: Ryan before he went into the
insurance business drank pretty heavily
but about two months ago went up TO ST.
Charles Borromeo's Church and took the
pledge and started out to do what was right.
He began TO pay off little debts aud was
doing very well. He was ALWAYS very
POPULAR and prominent in tue Foresters.
/ l think the principal cause of his trouble
was that he had spent good deal of
money IN trying TO get the nomination for
School Director in the last campaign. l
attribute all his trouble to that, There is
nothing about him naturally bad, and
only unfortunate circumstances would
make him go wrong"
| Ryan's wife, at 304 Sixteenth street,
seemed the most unconcerned one about
the whole matter. and this fact was ex-
planned when his brother, at Fourth and
Mlnna, said they had not been on good
terms for some time.
She said that she had not seen anything
of her husband siuce the morning of the
26th, ana did not appear to be worried at
all about him. Asked about this, she said
that for the first two days she was both
cred little. but finally concluded he had
gone to the springs" or somewhere else.
"You have not heard from him at all
then ?"
No"
''Do You expect him back?"
"Oh, yes, suppose So"
There was no sign of woe or worry about
the house.
Ryan's brother, al the corner of Fourth
and Minna streets, when asked about his
brothers disappearance and the embezZle-
ment charged, was not murh more inter-
ested than the wife. Hs said that he had
seen his brother on Thursday last, and
that as nearly a week after he had left
his home and last been seen at the nffice of
Brow, Craig & Go. The brother said:
He has been sick for some tim-, and
has been talking of going to the snrings.
suppose he will show mp soon. He had
been drinking pretty heavily"
| Then the brother went on to say that
there was no cause for wcnder that he had
not been at home lately, for he and his
| wife for some time had not been on good
! terms.