The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-15
MISSING IGNATZ FREEMAN.
POLICE AND A HUNDRED
CITIZENS SEARCH FOR HIM..

A Wholesale Liquor Healer from WIikesbarre,
while Waiting Friends at Newark DisaD.
psnrs l1ystsriously-He HAS Been I'll and
Is Believed TO Have Become DernnGed.
More than 100 persons in and around Newark
were searching yesterday for Ignatz Freeman.
who disappeared mysteriously on Tuesday last.
His home is in Wilkesbarre. Pa. He is well.to-
do. and is a wholesale liquor dealer. He is
about 80 years old, has dark hair and mustache
streaked with gray. and when he disappeared
he had on q gray suit and a blue overcoat.
He was Ill and, with his wife and son, came TO
Newark several weeks ago to visit Herman
Lowry and his family, who are relatives. at 80
Richmond street. Late on Tuesday afternoon.
after having left the house with his wife. Free
man went back to get a medicine bottle. As he
failed to return to where his wife was waiting
che went to the house and found that he had
come in, gone to his room, and gone out again q
few minutes afterward. As he did not return
and could not be found up to late in the evening
there was anxiety concerning him. and the
pol CO were notified. A general alarm was sent
out and half a dozen friends afoot and on bi.
cycles searched the city all night, but got no
trace of him, '
On Wednesday the authorities OF q dozen or
more cities were notified, and the search by
friends in and around Newark. was prosecuted
vigorously. No clue to him was found. how
ever. until yesterday. when tho family was mott.
fed that q man answering accurately to Mr..
Freeman's description had purchased some rolls
at q bakery at Fourteenth street and Sixth ave-
nuo and q drink of whiskey at n nearby saloon
early in the morning. At both places 1t was
said that the man acted strangely and seemed
to be demented. The police were notified. and O
dozen policemen, mounted on horses or bicycles,
t @srS cent Ti out 2 TO n foIlos t 81 P sasif. %or On Of lG thc
clue was passed around by the Lowys, and In a
short time a hundred citizens were aiding the
The search was systematically arranged and
evory vacant house and every street and ave
and adjoining divisions of the city were gone
through. Inquiries were made In scores OF
R %onSs and nc stores sS,s% IA and tS every ay,i Sit Of s andsTsrg Was
tsred Wa. stopped, and gasstionsd; One young
ground IN the new Branch Brook park. He
and looked at hun Sharply. fndins that
he was awake and apparently resting
Il h!i be- was q t crazy. 'rf MisP des nhs ma talli lSSt Closely y
with that Of Mr.. Freeman, and the young man
identified 9 picture Of the latter as II Of the
ended In nothing. more being learned, although
the search extended to the townships surround
them. and was kept up until after nightfall;
Late yesterday afternoon word reached New
far ssF as lsG Pat Sas =, t ins s a shore time Meo before nao gam a man an
believed to have been Mr.. freeman got IN an
Erie Railroad train at Passaic bound toward
New York. The New York police were ut once
asked to have the ferries watched.
probably fatal accident which befell Edwin ).
Solk of Wilkesbarre, Pa. Ho is a friend OF the
them. Learning OF the disappearance he re-
NAMED thore to aid In the search, and, while
riding on a trolley car on Friday night. was flung
off ut u curve. He struck the pavomont on his
head with such force that his skull was badly
fractured. He 10 In the City Hospital, and, al
though tho operation OF trephining was per
formed on Saturday, there is little hope OF hif
recovery.
It is believed that the missing man has be
come deranged from the use of q powerful medi
cine containing narcotics to induce sleep, al
one OF his greatest troubles was insomnia.