The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-11-23

William r. Gambell. of $40 Twenty-third
avenue south. is the subject Of most
anxious inquiry By his wife and his father.
City Auditor Il. n. Gambell. of Portland.
Or. For nearly five years the son and
husband has been resident of Seattle.
He IS the agent of Leonard Ellis. San
Francisco wholesale oil house, and main
tanned an office in the Starr-Boyd build
ing.
Friday night. November IL, NJ. GambeIl
avenue 10 take the steamer Kingston for
Vancouver. r.. c.. where he intended Wis
Ting the Hastings mill on e business mis-
sion. Since that night Mrs. Gambell has
moi heard syllable from her husband
MIR. Gambelfs faLher arrived in the city
yesterday from Portland 10 assist in
searching for the missing man. With +.
NJ. Muldoon, a neighbor Of the Gamballs
he visited police headquarters last night
10 give a description of his son and 10
enlist the services Of the department in
finding him.
The Gambell case appears to be a sin
gular one. The missing mans descrip-
ton, as given to the police last night
by his father. is as follows: Height, feet
10 inches: weight. about 140 pounds; fair
complexion, gray-blue eyes and light mus
tachc. He was quite bald and was dressed
in brown suit, with brown derby hat
and black shoes.
Mr.. Ganbells business Is such that he
Is compelled frequently TO be absent from
the city for several days at time. 1t
was his custom, however, to keep his
family and his office employees posted as
to his movements almost daily. He would
telegraph or telephone to the office TO in
quire about business matters and would
inform his wife by wire OF his movements
from day to day. II. by chance. he was
unable to return home at the appointed
time he would invariably telegraph Mrs.
Gambell that he was delayed, and would
tell her when he would be able 10 start
for home.
Mr.. Gambeli left his home Friday night
to take the steamer City Of Kingston for
Vancouver. b. c. His intention was to
return home not later than Sunday or
Monday week ago. Mrs. Gambeil ex-
pected him home on Sunday, but did not
worry on his failure to put in an appear
ance. She confidently expected him on
the following day, and when Monday had
passed and the following day brought no
word from her husband, she became very
uneasy. AS the hours heightened into
days and. linked together, the days made
out week, and still no word was re-
ceiyed from the missing man, the wifes
alarm and grief became pitiable, end final
iy In despair she went to her neighbors
for help and telegraphed her husbands
father 70 come from Portland and direct
the search for his son.
telegram was sent TO the Hastings
| mill people at Vancouver Saturday. W.
| b. Mearns. one of the managers of the
| mill, is personally acquainted with Mr.
| Gambell. Yesterday reply was received.
| stating that he had not been at the mill
! at all.
OF course. the receipt OF this unwelcome
| bit of news brought terror and despair TO
| the Gambeli household. From that time
| 1t was like cropping in the dark to look for
| the lost husband and son. Mrs. Gambeil
| clung all last week to the hope that her
| husband might have changed his plans on
| reaching Vancouver and have decided to
| return Ia Seattle by rail instead OF steam
| err. visiting the shiugle mills on the route
/ in quest of business. II was believed that
| he might have gone 10 the mills at What
! com and Blaine and have been caught be-
tween railroad stations by washout. The
| fact that the storm OF last week laid low
| some OF the wires running north out of
| Seattle encouraged this belief because IL
| Mr.. Gamhen has been detained by floods
| his silence could be explained by the fact
| that there was no communication hv wire
|
| ever. found all the wires to the noints
! likely To he visited by Mr. GambeII ,ip and
working wei. so that had he been DELAYED
in the manner indicated he would have
been able 10 notify his wife, as was his
| custom
Mr.. Garuhelrs business affairs are said
20 be In good shape and he has nrnsperel
80 as % be able 20 set store by for a
rainy day His domestic relations were
az the happiest and he had no bad habits
His family are completely I'm want of any
| plausible theory on which to predicate !
belief ihat he has purposely ahsentesf him,
self from bis family circle and his hisf.
| ness, Those who know him say thar there
| IS no business reason for his leaving rms
! city and that his home life here was han.
py and fun ~ eontenfment
| The case Is now in the hands OF Chief Of
Folce Reed and his assistants sys.
| temat!c search and inquiry into the rT-s
| WAS begun last night. Today taler-a ~.
| viii be sent out containing q descriptIor
| Of the missing man.
| THE California market has Tho =-es.
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