The sun., 1898-11-13
A BRAKEMAN DISAPPEARS
J. Herbert Wallace Has Been
Missing From His Home
Since Last Tuesday.
FOUL PLAY IL SUSPECTED
Drew His Months Pay of Over $50
From the Railroad Company and
From That Time All Trace
of Him Has Been Lost.
Wife's Statement,

J. Herbert Wallace, a well-knowr
p, W. & B. brakeman, has mysteriously
disappeared, and his relatives and MANI
friends fear he has been foully deaii
with.
He was last seen at Third and Market
streets about II O'Clock Tuesday night
by one Of his friends, whom he told be
was going to get shaved, and then
started down Third street.
As far as can be learned, no one who
knows him has seen him since. The
matter has been placed in the hands
of Chief of Police Dolan, who has sent
out an accurate description of the miss.
ing man, and is doing everything in his
power to locate him.
Wallace is known by most of the P,
W. q B. Railroad men, and is held in
popular esteem by them. He goes by the
nickname of "white eye" among the
men, who ever since his disappearance
have kept sharp lookout for him.
He is from Seaford, this State, but has
resided in this city for the past four
years, and for the past two months he
and his wife have boarded at the resi-.
dence OF w. F. Poach, No. 4l9 East
Fourth street. Their only child, Leon,
aged years, is living with the parents
of the wife in Philadelphia.
Mrs. Wallace has been almost pros.
trated by the sudden disappearance of
her husband, and can assign no reason
for it other than that he met with foul
play.
He spent the early part of the evening
in the parlor of his boarding place,
playing checkers with some of the other
boarders. He is first-class player and
after out-playing them all aud finding
none that were his equal, announced
about $50 o'clock that he was going out
to get shaved. He had previously told
his wife that II he went out at all it
would only be to get shaved.
II has been learned that after leaving
the house he visited the French street
P, W. & B. station and drew check for
his months pay, amounting to some
thing over $50. After getting the check
he visited number of places to get it
cashed. Some of them were closed on
account Of it being election day and
Others had already closed for the night.
He told the friend, whom he lett at
Third and Market streets, that he could
probably get it cashed at the barber shop
where he would get shaved.
Where he got to after leaving the bar
Der shop or whether he ever reached the
the shop is not known, but it is supposed
that he was waylaid and robbed.
It, said that his family relations were
very pleasant and that he was in the
best of humor on Tuesday evening,
and joking in his usual man
ner. That he had no intention of leav-
ing town is shown by the fact that he
did not draw all the money due him
from the railroad company. He was an
extra brakeman, and more frequently
worked on shifter in the West Yard.
His wife went to Philadelphia last
evening, but will return to Wilmington
this evening. She has had many Of his
friends making inquiries about him, as
we'll as notifying the police authorities.
Wallace is q years Of age, 5 feet 10! in.
in heighth, weighs 173 pounds, has Clark
brown hair, unusually light blue eyes,
fiorid complexion and a scar on his
head. The first joint of the middle
finger of his right hand is off. He wore
light colored trousers, black sack coat |
md vest, black derby hat, light tan
shoes, pink plaid shirt, white collar and |
black and white necktie.