The herald., 1898-11-28
COLES WHEREABOUTS
THE MISSING BRIDEGROOM BE-
LIEvED no BE IN MEXICO
Had Told Friends of His Desire to 60
South-Miss Rochat Frustrated
by the Circumstances

| While the present Whereabouts OF Euwaru
A. Cole, the missing Pasadena bridegroom
are as yet not definitely known in this city
or Pasadena, everything points to the Nc'
as published in yesterday mornings Herald
that he has taken the train to FL Paso w1th
the intention OF going to Mexico with
friend from the Texas town. 1t was ascer'
tanned yesterday that Cole took the S:a5 car
from Pasadena ON "Wednesday morning, ar
irving in this city at $50. He was recog
nized on the car by Motorman Charles Ben
edict and Conductor Lord, the latter speak
| ing to him in regard to vacation. LORD
says that Cole appeared to be quite sick
and was decidedly gloomy in his bearing
He did not state where he was going nor did
he present the appearance OF man about
to start on long journey. He left the car
near the corner of Second and Spring streets
and appeared to be going to the Santa Fe
ticket office at that corner.
In Pasadena public opinion has already
discarded all theories except that OF de-
liberate flight on Coles part. That he did
not leave Pasadena for the east direct is
evidenced by two facts. First, that he was
seen in Los Angeles Wednesday morning as
above related; and, second, that he would
have found it necessary to wait at least
twenty four hours for an overland train.
All his movements so far as known at pres
ent indicate that he took the first train
available out of Los Angeles in order to
avoid his approaching marriage, and prob
ably took advantage of the Friday overland
on the Southern Pacific to get to Ell Paso
or that locality.
Harry Cobb, foreman of the Electric Rail-
way company's car barns at Pasadena, stat
ed to Herald reporter yesterday that Cole
received a letter from his Fl Paso friend
whose name, however, he does not remem-
Der, in which the latter urged Cole to leave
at once and come to Mexico. Il advised
him not to CO." said Mr.. Cobb, knowing
that his finances were certainly not large
enough for him to risk his position here
for business chance there. He said that he
realized that fact, but was anxious to go,
nevertheless, since he had an idea that he
could do well in Mexico. However, the
matter dropped, although it was not the
only time we had discussed the subject
since he has received in the last three or
four months two letters to my knowledge
from the same party on the same matter"
Miss Rochat is completely Frustrated by
the affair and seems to still look upon Cole s
absence as the result of lapse of his mental
faculties.
A friend of Coles, who seems to have
known the missing man very intimately,
stated that Cole had for some time past
been in the habit of spending night peri
odically in Los Angeles, registering at a
hotel with woman as "E. A. Coburn and
wife" 1t is further said that there were
two women in whose company he had been
seen in Los Angeles under the above cir.
cumstances.
As the affair stands at present, the opin.
ion of his friends appears to be that he had
wearied of his engagement to Miss Rochat
grown tired of his life in Pasadena and de
oided to take his Texas friends advice and
is well on his way to Mexico.