The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-09-30
REV, THE MISSING STUDENT.

Has at Last Reached His Home in
Buffalo From Ceylon His Mysterious
Case His Mind a Blank Concerning
His First Few Days Wanderings-
Has Seen the World, Made Money
and Improved His Health
Frederick Gordon Rev has returned
to his home in this city. Rev is the
young Cornell student who so mysteri-.
ously disappeared from Ithaca almost
exactly two years ago ara whose fate
was for so long wraplt,iin mystery AS
exclusively reported j. The Express of
four weeks ago, he was found last
month in sCeylon,i VIII .s,.as. he had gone
rs electrician on a French trailing
ste amer, and his retusn Turing last
weeks was the result Of the efforts of
detectives who-for nearly two years,
hunted for him III all parts Of the
world
Young Rev reached Buffalo last
Wednesday and has been at the home of
his parents on West Ferry street ever
since. To an Express reporter who
called at the house last evening. he
would say bat little FIR ulrhlica.icn re
grading the story of his disappearance
and Subsequent wan1ermss. The Elk.
press in its acc ount of his finding told
substantially all that was known at
the time by youny Rew's parents Of his
adventures, but 1t was learned last eV-
elung that there IS stu much mystery
connected with the affair. wliicg the
young man himself Is unable to explain
satisfactorily.
According 10 the statement made at
the time when the FIST definite tews Of
his son reached ilim, by Mr. Esbon Il.
i.fw the young mars father, hA went
to New York after leaving Cornell,
engaged passage on a cattle ship and
worked his way to Bordeaux, France.
At this place he secured employment
with an electric firm that was about to
erect an electric plant in Central Amer
lea. He sailed from Honduras in the
early part of 1895, visiting Jamaica,
Martinique and Cuba, and then 70
turned to France, where he contracted
to look after the electric machinery If q
tramp trading ship bound for the East
Indies.
Mr.. Rew's statement also was TO the
effect that on the day when his son
disappeared, October 2, 1894, the young
man felt an irresistible desire to leave
and to go to. some place where he could
perfect himself in French and German,
the languages in which he felt himself
deficient in college.
These statements, which were made
by Mr. Rev from information con-
tainad in the letter written to him by
his son, after being told by the detec-
tives that his parents considered him
| dead are corroborated by the young
man himself When asked to explain
| his movements between the time of
leaving Ithaca and reaching New York,
however he was unable to give any ac-
count of his wanderings. For a space
| of several days, he declares, his mind is
| a blank From the moment of setting
out from the lower end of Cayuga lake
until he found himself aboard the YES
sci bound for France he says he can
| remember nothing. He came to his
| senses to find himself on the ocean.
His story is told in such a straightfor-
ward manner that it is believed by his
parents, and it is not knownwhether he
walked or rode from Ithaca to New
| York, or how many days he took for
| the Journey. Possibly some of the tales
| that were rife of a young man answer
| mig young Rew,s description having
been seen in various sections of the
| state were really founded on the fact
| that he had been there. He is unable to
! tell whether or not they are true how