Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1897-12-16

According 10 the Post Diig1gcB. Mrs
Lucy COFingtoa Of 9o7 Wyoming street,
St Louis viii go into court, represent
ed by attorney James NJ Rollins, and
ask that her father. Evan b Day, be
declared dead Dependent upon this
legal declaration Is life insurance 10
TIE amount OF S7.003- Evan B. Day
may be dead, o. he may De living in
some distant State or foreign country.
His relatives believe him dead. bat
they have 60 positive proof His case
is mystery For many years the
Strangely missing man was a wealthy
resident o. Bo11e Terre, No He
bought i've stock al over hat county
and vas 81 extensive shipper 70 the S.
Louis market Around the hotels aod
among cou mission uea lie was a. well
known n the city as - his home Il
The fail Ct 1883 ar Dag had some III
usually large stock deals pending He
made q shipment 10 ST Louis and car
RED away several thousand dollars
his fact was generally known through
o41 the country surrounding EOnne
Terre- The day folloEing his return
from ST Louis ne lef. his home early
in the morning TO travel across the
country on horseback. carrying q large
sum Of money. His purpose was 10
buy STOCK e. route. and he was not ex-
pected TO complete his mission for
three or four days. = week elapsed
and stll the stockuau was away- The
ordinary uueasiBess Of his family de-
veIoped into frantic anxiety. They
= L ~ Mo
leDce. Search was Instituted The
neigh borhood was aroused. Posses
were formed and the country for miles
and miles around was carefully gone
over. At last the searchers found q
farm house where bay had got his din
uer the first day he was Oui from home
He left there early il the afternoon
the farmer said. without giving any in
formation a. TO his next stopping place
Several miles further the horse ridden
by the missing stockman vas found
grazing IN the woods. The saddle and
bride had been removed: II another
part Of the woods the saddle was found. |
This much OF a discovery led the
TO believe that the dead body
was rot far distant. Organized effort |
was made. thousand men and boys. |
and even women. traversed every foot !
OF ground within radius OF several |
miles. The hunt continued nearly a /
month. But Evan Day. dead or alive. /
was never found. Eliza Day. his wife. /
and his children. at last gave up hope. i
They mourDed the missing one Is dead. /
He had left insurance in the i. o. L /
W. and other orders. amounting in the 4
aggregate 10 8. 900. But the officers /
al the head Of the insurance depart |
nent OF these orders wanted proof Of /
death a few years ago a rumor be
came current that the mysteriously /
absent man had been seen in Texas. |
He had amassed q big fortune there in |
the cattle business the rumor said /
Mrs. Day, Mrs. CoviDgton. Der mar /
ried daughter. John I. Day, SOD. and |
other relatives traced the rumor far /
enough to find that there was 10 foun- /
datiou for IL so Attorney Rollins claims. !
II Is now 6 little more than seven years
since Day rode away from his home /
down al Borne Terre. The statutes /
provide that seven years Of mysterious
absence i equivalent 10 death, so far
as legal purposes are concerned and 1t |
is on this plea that Attorney Rollins
expects TO collect the $1,000 for Mrs. /
and the other heirs OF Evan t
Day. The attorney Is now in commu-
with the insurance people, !
and II may be that the claim will be
without entering suit. The /
general belief IN and around Bonnie /
Terre Is that Day was murdered for
his money. But after all the search
ing for the facts relating TO his mysteri-
Gus disappearance not enough evidence
was found TO warrant arrests.