The Waco evening news. [volume] (Waco, Tex.) 1891-1894, 1894-05-25
WHEREAS WHILE ROY
Is a Question Now Agitatins
His Friends.
lie Was Last Seen ia Chicago Nay IL
Foul Play is Suspected.

Readers of THE News were
aware of the fact that Kipling, the
magician, was to open an engage
ment in Waco Monday night last,
but failed to appear. Since that
time Messrs. Hobson q Harold, who
represent Mr.. w. II. Leroy,
manager of the Texas summer
amusement circuit, in this city, have
been in correspondence with the
headquarters of the circuit at
Denison to ascertain the cause. No
information was received except
that Leroy had left Chicago Satur.
day last with Kipling. The Fort
Worth Gazette this morning pub.
lished the following special telegram
from Denison:
Denison, Tex, May 24.--Wil-
liam II. Leroy, manager Texas
summer circuit, comprising Deni-
son, Dallas, Houston, Waco, Aus
tin, Galveston and San Antonio, is
missing. He left Denison May Is
for Chicago, to return with the
Denver Opera company to,play the
circuit. He was last heard of in
Chicago Thursday, May II, where
he called on the Chicago agent of
the Missouri, Kansas and Texas.
The night he left Denison he called
upon General Passenger and Ticket
Agent Crush of the Missouri, Kan
sas and Texas of Texas, arranged
with him regarding the trapsporta-
ton of the opera company from
Chicago TO Dallas, the cost of
tickets amounting to little over
500. lie Roy produced large
roll of bills which he counted.
There was about $3.50 in the roll.
He told Mr.. Crush to instruct the
Chicago agent regarding the tickets.
Mr.. Crush endeavored to persuade
him to pay for the tickets, telling
him that he was careless carrying so
large an'amount of money with him.
He decided to take it to Chicago,
however, and left. Not a word has
been heard from him directly since.
He had been doing good business,
and friends fear he has been made
away with. A special to the Herald
from Chicago this afternoon says:
"Only trace Of w. III. LIE Roy, man.
ager of the Texas summer amuse
ment circuit il, that he was last
seen by the agent of the Missouri,
Kansas and Texas on the l7tn inst,
when LIE Roy came to his office to
transfer the Denver Opera company
TO Texas. He did not have funds,
but said he could secure them. He
got $1,000 from some bank ia this
city and another 81 600 some place in
Texas. The agent did not knox
that he got the money from his own
knowledge, but from the oprra peo-
pie, who hung around the otfi e for
several days."
A special telegram in the Dallas
News from Denlson, published this
morning, is as follows:
Denison, May "a w. III. lie.
Roy, manager Of the Texas amuse.
mont circuit, has mysteriously dis.
appeared and his friends suspect
foul play. He was last seen in
Chicago May II, where he booked
an opera company which was to
have opened in Dallas Monday,
May 81. He had on his person
when last seen a roll of greenbacks
amounting to $1,000. Leroy makes
his headquarters here and is we'll
known in other Texas cities.
Mr.. Hobson received a letter on
the same train that brought these
papers, giving in substance the
same facts as sts ted above. 1t is
thought by Mr.. j. M. Ezell, manager
for Mr.. Leroy in Denison, who
wrote Mr. Hobson, that the missing
man has been foully dealt with.
He states that LEROY was arranging
to bring to Texas the Wizard,
Kipling, and Dennier's Opera com.
pany, and that he had considerable
money on his person.
May ~ Mr.. LIE Roy spent two
hours in Waco, being delayed by
the washout on the Missouri, Kan.