The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1897-04-28
BANKER ELLIOTT At HOME
lie Reached WinnSborO at an
Early Hour This Morning.
TELEGRAPHED TO HIS WIFE
she Promptly Left Washington to
Join Her Husband-Hls Erratic
Course Accounted for by the Dis
turhed Condition of His Mind Con-
seqGent Upon Business worry.

Banker Thomas X. Elliott, of Winnsboro,
). c., who so suddenly and mysteriousiy
| disappeared from Mrs. Elliott at the Sixth
street depot last Friday morning, has been
| found. He returned to his home iii WinBs
| boro this morning at / O'Clock. Mrs. Elliott
| was notified of his return at the home OF
! her brother, Mr.. Charles A. Douglass, l sol
| Vermont avenue, two hours later. She i'm
mediately Informed the police and left
| Washington on the 11:15 train for the
| South 20 rejoin her husband.
| Mr. Elliott has been unweIl for over a
| year, In connection with his ban king bust
ness at Winnsboro. He has been over
worked and worried, and, it Is SAID, almost
/ on the verge OF nervous prostration for
nearly all tnaT time.
| About year ago the Winnsboro National
Bank and the Peoples Bank of Winnsboro,
rival institution, went into liquidation.
| Out of the ruins OF these two banks the new
| Winnsboro bank was formed, and Mr..
| Elliott was made its president. The new
| bank has been most successful, and has
been in fine condition up to the present
|
! one Of the former banks, has brooded over
| its failure, apparently with the idea that
he was the cause OF the collapse. Shortly
| aftert he opening of the new bankPresident
Elliott was forced to go to Philadelphia
and enter sanitarium for rest of mind
and body Apparently he was fully re-
| covered and went back to Winnsboro.
| Twice during the year he has offered
ngf.r no Ern M
of his inability to spend much time in his
work, but the bank people have refused
| it, and he has felt bound TO spend al least
| a few hours every day at his desk. At
! last, two months ago, President Elliott
| was obliged t. give up again. The bank
people gave him vacation or ten months,
| ana he went TO Baltimore to enter sani-
| tarium there. About two weeks ago the
physician in charge of the santarium wrote
| to Mrs Elliott that her husband was suf-
| ficiently recovered to return to his home
| For the pleasure of the trip Mrs. Elliott
| went to Baltimore from there, with the pur-
pose Of returning with her husband.
They left that city last Thursday and
reached Washington on their way home
| Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Elliott wlShedto
| stop IN Washington to see her sister. Mrs
| Douglass, anu litF SpNhA bilt htSlIt 1O iiiN
| home of Mr., Douglass. 1t was on the next
| morning. when they had reached the Penn
syIvania sta ation. that Mr.. Elliott disap-
| pearcd 1t was a few moments before
| train time Mr.. Elliott left the side OF
| his wife, apparently for only minute,
| saving that he would return Immediately
She staid in the station for some time,
| until after the train had left, but could find
1 Il -f1
| ter's house very much distracted. and the
| police were notified and thorough search
| made of the country around Washington
| and Of the nearby cities
Late yesterday afternoon the chief of po-
| lice OF Baltimore telegTaphed Inspector
| HoIlinberger OF the local detective bureau,
| that Elliott had visited friend, Presi-
| dent Dickson. of the National Exchange
| Bank, OF Baltimore, on Monday. President
| Elliott had said to President Dickson that
| he intended 10 leave Baltimore at once for
| his home in South Carolina. Mrs. Elliott
| was notified, and Mt A. F. Ruff and Mr
| Ketchin friends of Ajr. Elliott, who came
| to this city on Sunday from South Carolina
| to assistin the search, started immediately
| for Baltimore.
| Last night these gentlemen sent a tele-
/ gram to Mrs. Elliott to the effect that
| her husba nd had stayed at the st Charles
| Hotel In Baltimore on Sui.,!ay and Monday,
and had said on pa ying his bill, that he
| was going direct TO Norfolk, Va. This
| proves to be exactly what he did He was
| In Norfolk during Tuesday, but did not
| stop there, leaving directly for his home a
| Winnsboro Mr. Ruff is still in baltimore,
but MI Ketc,iin a cousin of President
| Elliott. returned TO the South this morn
| ing with Mrs. Elliott.
| 1t is the theory of the family now that
Mr. Elliott must have had temporary fit
of alteration, from which, however, he
| seems TO have entirely recovered. 1t is
| thought that in the station last Friday
| he may have returned to the place where
| he left Mrs. Elliott, and finding her ab-
| sent, may have become OTerduly excited
and worried, and in temporary aberTa-
| ton of mind, returned to Baltimore to
| look for her. He had only three or four
| dollars with him when he left Mrs. Eli
| oft and some railroad tickets, and must
have borrowed money in Baltimore.
| That he has fully recovered at the pres
| sent time Mrs, Douglas has no doubt. She
| received a telegram from Mr.. Elliott
| himself a few moments after Mrs. Elliott
had left for the train, speaking iokingly
4 of the trouble he had been in, and of his
safe arrival home.
| President Elliott win be given a years
| vacation from his bank, and will rest
for some months to come.