Evening journal., 1894-01-19
HIS PARENTS ANXIOUS.
FearsThat George G. Knowles
Has Been Foully Dealt With.
THE LAST LETTER IN OCTOBER

The Father Believes That the Last Draft.
which Exhausted the Letter of Credit,
Was Forgery Was oashed IN Rio
aud at Different Banking House.
Knowles Went Into the Interior From
Bahia.
The parents and friends Of George
Gray Knowles. of No. SOC West street, are
exceedingly anxious concerning his
whereabouts and personal safety Ger
tain circumstances of late lead them to
fear that he has been robbed OF foully
dealt with
The young man, who moved IN the
highest social circles of Wilmington, and
who was favorite.wherever known, left
for Brazil on the bark Alexander Black
Captain Buck, on July Z. The vessel
sailed from the wharf of the Harlan and
Hollingsworth Company with cargo of
cars for Brazilian railroad
Mr.. Knowles arrived at Rio Jsneiro
and wrote some interesting letters home
to his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. James q.
Knowles These letters, In which the
progress Of Mellos revolution was de
tailed, were published in the EVENING
JOURNAL and read with much interest
Mello's warships making 1t impossible for
the ycung Delawarean to sail from. Rio,
he went overland to Bahia, intending to
take steamer for home
At Bahia he met q mining engineer
and a civil engineer interested in q
| projected railroad from Bahia to some
interior point. The acquaintance ripened
into friendship and the three, heavily
armed, started iuto the interior being
the hrst white men who had ever at.
tempted to penetrate that particular
region lt was on the eve Of his de
parture that young Knowles mailed his
last letter, promising TO be home by
Christmas This letter was dated Oc-
to6er 10. and nothing has siuce been
heard from or of him
Mrs Kuo wles his mother was inter
viewed to day by an EVENING JOURNAL
reporter. She said:
We have not heard from him and are
very much worried His last letter was
dated October 16 aud then he was leav
ing Bahia for the interior with a party
of Euglishmen Que was mining
engineer. The other was q civil engi
neer who had been interested In build
ing railway from Bahia to some other
place
"We feel worried because the last
draft was cashed in kio, November 30.
aud no letter came from George ut that
time We cannot understand why the
draft was cashed Ia Rio when George
had so much difficulty IN getting out OF
that city.
"Mr. Ewing, who married Miss Rob
inson, lives at PetrOpolis, two hours out
Of Rio, and George use0 to spend SUNDAY
with him aud his wife. II George had
returned to Rio he would certainly have
gone to them A letter of theirs, writ
ten on December 8. to the Robinson
family,I Ion Gilpin avenue, said nothing
about his arrival In Rio.
"Mr Knowles is so worried / an
afraid he will ha III. What makes hin
so anxious is that the draft previous t,
the last one had been cashed by Phipp
& Co., of Rio. The last one was cashe,
at the London and Brazilian Bankin,
House in Rio. He is very much afrai,
somebody has gotten Georges letter o
credit.
"The full amount due on the lette
was drawn by the last draft and /
has come back to Drexel & Co., Of Phila
delphia. The last draft was for $25
and Mr. Knowles thinks it was forged
George should have been home lon
before this and We are looking every day
for him or letter His heavy winte
; clothing is waiting for him. in New Yor
and has been for some time. N white ma
ever bad been in the region to which b
went and he Is so full of daring, courag
. and love Of adventure that we natural
feel anxious"