The times., 1897-04-28
MISSING BANKER ELLIOTT
Was in Baltimore Monday and
Started For Home.
His Friends Expect to Find Him III
Norfolk and Have Notified tile
Authorities There.

faint ray OF lights in evidence in the
case OF Thomas X. Elliott, the winnsboro,
s. c., banker, who mysteriously disap-
peared from the Sixth street depot In this
city last Friday morning
Late yesterday afternoon the chief of
police of Baltimore telegraphed Inspector
Hollinberger, of the local detective bureau
that il was learned that Elliott had visited
the National Exchange Bank OF Baltimore
ON Monday andtlat he had conversed with
the president of the bank, to whom he said
that he intended TO leave at once for his
home in South Carolina
Inspector Hollinberger lost no time in
placing the telegram in the hands OF Mr.
Charles A. Douglass, brother-inIaw of the
missing man, and at whose home, No
1901 Vermont avenue, Mrs Elliott Is still
stopping.
Mr.. Douglass at once advised Mrs. Elliott
OF the telegram, and Messrs A +. Ruff,
and F. II Ketchim, who, it viii be re-
called, came to this city Sunday from
South Carolina to assist in the search,
started without delay for the Monumental
City.
Late last night they sent a telegram
to Mrs Elliott to the effect that her hus-
band had put up at the st Charles Hotel,
Baltimore, on Sunday and Monday andhad
said on paying his bill that be was
going to direct to Norfolk, Va.
The police of Norfolk have been notified
to be on the look out for him.
Messrs Ruff and Ketchim remained last
IN Do.
viii advise Mrs. Elliott by telegram this
morning as TO the apprehension Of the
wanderer.
While the relatives of the missing man
are reluctant TO believe that he is insane,
and are naturally reticent about express
ing their views on the subject, they admit
that ON several occasions during the past
year he has shown evidences OF mental
breakdown.
This condition was, in their opinion,
mainly due to overwork and anxiety over
business matters, but, in view of the fact
that on several occasions Elliott had ex-
pressed regret that the Winnsboro National
Bank, of which he was cashier, and the
Peoples Bank of Winnsboro, rival insti-
tuition, went into liquidation about a year
ago, it ts thought probable that continual
brooding over the subject, rendered him
an easy victim to nervous prostration and
temporary alteration of the mind.
AT the time Of the liquidation of the fore
going banks, the Winnsboro Bank. with
Mr.. Elliott as president sprang into ex-
istence as the sole bank of Winnsboro
Notwithstanding the fact that financial
matters rapidly grew into excellent shape
IN the new bank, it was noticed that Mr.
Elliott had In some manner conceived
the idea that be was morally response
bic for the going into liquidation of the
two predecessors of his bank. and had
wronged the stockholders of the hank of
which he had been cashier. This reasoning
was unquestionabiy the result of oyervork
and nervous prostraton.
Mr.. and Mrs Elliott, it will be recalled,
came to this city last Thursday afternoon,
the former having just been discharged
from a Baltimore hospital, where he had
been confined for month under treatment
for nervous prostration. On arriving in
this city they decided to stop over night
at the home Of a brother of Mrs. Elliott, Mr.
Charles A. Douglass, at No. 1901 Vermont
avenue.
The next morning, Friday, the Elliotts
left the Douglass home intending to take
the III 3 train to continue their homeward
Journey South.
Shortly before train time Mr. Elliott ex-
cused himself for a moment and went out
on the sidewalk in front of the depot
After awaiting his return some little
time Mrs. Elliott grew alarmed and re-
turned to the home of her brother.
Notwithstanding thorough search of the
country adjacent to this city has been
maintained and the police of other cities
notified, no definite trace of the missing
man was discovered by the police until
yesterday. when it was learned that Mr..
Elliott had spent at least a part of his
time in Baltimore, as announced in the
teiegrams received yesterday and last
night.