New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-03-18
10. BACHE'S DISAPPEARANCE
4 CURIOUS OLD MAN WHO OFFERED TO
PRODUCE HIM.


HELD FOR RANSOM.
M. ,,,,...,r,o,,s vanishing of John Owen Bache
- r,,,r.so,. night February 2S remains I'M
fathomed. Investigation ho"V'e'' '''' s''0U
.o,,o strangely significant facts regarding It,
49,, 1,,ho was the financial manager at No.
-, o,.o for the local branch OF the Union
Cor,ral 1sfe insurance Company, Of Cincinnati
n, the night Of his disappearance he was going
toward Boston on the steamer Plymouth. with
n Henry T. Boyle. of this city. few days
Later DIR. Boyle returned alone He said that he
ord Mr.. Bache conversed together until a. m
on Friday; that the latter induced him TO drink
vyh,skcy several times left him at the hour men
toned under pretence of looking up his baggage
and aid not return. Mr.. Bache was married out
did not live with his wife ana daughter toF whose
support he paid 500 month.
on the day that he went away some proh.S-
sorry notes indorsed by him. amounting 10 3d.
775 and held by the Western National Bank were
protested Afterward a report was puo'ished
that a warrant had been issued for his arrest as
a defaulter. but the report emphatcaily de-
Mod nv, John NJ Pattison. president OF the IN
e,,rapce company, who positively declared 'hat
Mr.. Bache had done nothing that reflected IN 'hN
slightest degree upon mis- business standing ana
integrity.
colonel Pobor, J. Hare. who has long been
+ba legal adviser of Mr. Bache in various mat
ters. was seen AT his home No "ZS west
,rbirtictbst by a Tribune reporter, yesterday
We said that he had been in Boston, and thor
ouchlv investigated his clients dlsappearahce'
Tho following is the substance Of the account
GIVEN by Colonel Hare Of the details Of his in
ves6gation:
Mr. Bache who is a descendant Of the old
and well-known Bache family of this city. had
received from some Of his agents the notes men,
toned which We're given by policy-holders in
pavnent for premiums. Having been led by the
agents TO believe the notes to be good he had
them discounted. When they were protested ne
had not sufficient money Of his own on hand l"
redeem them. He then Immediately started for
BOSTON TO try To collect some money which was
Que 10 him from a man in that city, whose notes
Mr. Raohe had held for several years. ana IRE
ouently renewed. His debtor could not take up
hisno;es Mr. Bache. VINO is of an extremely Sehsl-
tive. nervous temperament felt his disappoh'-
ment so keenly that he was attacked by severe
nervous prostration. which intensified by
generally debiltated condition. He then went 10
a private boarding house in Cambridge ana
rlaced himself under medical treatment
On Saturday, March 9. Colonel Hare received
letter apparentlv in Mr. Bache's handwriting. but
disguised and signed a B. telling him TO go 10
the Quincy House in Boston for news regarding
his client. He started Immediately but while on
the way 20 the Grand Central station, hndlng
himself logged. he says, by detectives from
the Western National Bank. he returned TO ms
home on sunday. the next day, the report OF
the issuance of the alleged warrant was pup
Nshed On Monday, the detectives having peeh
withdrawn in Difference to a vigorous protest on
the part OF Colonel HARE the latter went to
Boston. At the Quincy House he found no client
I.
Bache vanished from Cambridge on Sunday
night
on Tuesday w. j. Bache. cousin of the miss
ing man and formerly his partner in the IN
surance business in Boston accompanied by H.
w Holway. the Eastern manager for the Union
Central Insurance Company brought 10 Coroner
HARE at the hotel an engmatical old man VINO
stvled himself James Francis. Francis had VS.
tied the insurance company once lhe SAINT
dav and stated that he had come uirecl from
Mr. Bache. Colonel Hare examined the animate
enigma, found that he had credentials from NJ
Rache and that he knew about seNeIl OF MI;
Raches personal business affairs Whch CORONER
Iaire had supposed were known only 10 M
client and himself. Francis intimated that MI
Bache was concealed beyond the Canaoldh
border but near Detroit. He said that II the
presidents of the bank and the insurance CON
rany would sign documents guaranteehS 20 MI
Rache immunity from prosecution ana Ms re-
instatement in his position. WIN NdiIt'$ u
other conditions. ~ would go TO !,'roIl anu re-
turn with the sequestrated financial manager
rho signatures We're declined but freSldchl
Pattison bv means of a long distance teIePAoHe'
60 varhal assurances which induced Francis
10 90 with an agent Of the company TO DeuoiI'
hut only to be disappointed as Francis ldlied 10
find the missing man. 81, 49,
mystic Francis who seems II be measurahIy d
counterpart II Mr. Nadgett TnomdS fn !-a,
landlord and a detective for President Monlds"e
Ttgp otherwise Tigg Montague OF me Ahsl'-
Benga,ee Disnterested Life and Loan fssotld-
ton and Of whom it might also be SAD as o.;
Nadgett that "hOW and where ne HNeu' an"
what he was. were secrets.
Said Colonel HARE to the reporter:
Many years when was he prosecuting ing at IT,
torney OF the city Of Detroit Francis was sort or
Canadian spy or detective. Very often those sp1es
goods for a Consideration. That fellow one Of
Them. 1 recognized nm ana mad no use ,i iof
Francis is trying TO pay game Tor money Mr.
Rache was most certainly ill., and IN a condition
crSSujitv was played upon with sinister motive.
thinK tha[ knew hat The rip 20 Detroit Would
rrove 10 be q wid-gOOse chase. and declined 70
had gone to Detroit Francs would have produced
Mr. Bache, have languished IN prison I'LL he
ur Rache. ] am convinced, is somewhere in or
ana 6 oeer 10 ne c T ria S OF hm
~. hat even If the doctor drank whiskey, Mr..
baoHe b ri Inc; do not give crcdence TO any
efories about any woman or women haFinS any
financial affairs can ali BE- Satisfactorily arranged
and the insurance COMPANY IS e5feI ,o ma MN ~,
return
financial manager.
President Pattison. who is STAYING at the Ffth
Avenun Hotel came here 10 assist in finding The
missing man. He says positively that mere IS
nothing In the affair that reflects upon MI
Bache; that the latter can have all the money
he wants and that all the company wants is 10
have him walk back into its Office ana assume
the duties that he has faithfully ana satsidc-
torily discharged for many years.
DIR. TALhAGE PREA cHES ABOCT "DTvORcE'
The Rev DR.. Talmage preached yesterday at the
Academy Of Music Divorce" His text
What God hath Joined together let no man put
taINLaf W. ~