The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-27
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THE MISSING
STANFORD MAN
Goetz's Whereabouts
a Mystery.
DID HE GO TO MEET A MAN?
LEFT HIS VALUABLES WITH
MRS. CLARK.
The Missing Man Was Working His
Way Through College and
Was in His Junior
Year.
DID HE GO TO MEET A MAN?
LEFT HIS VALUABLES WIFE
MRS. CLARK.

Mystery still surrounds the sudden dis
appearance of Adolph Goetz, the Stan
ford man. The friends of the missing
student have made every effort to locate
him and have called to their aid the Ala
media police.
Up to last evening no clew had been
obtained as to his whereabouts and the
case remains shrouded in the deepest
mystery. Mrs. A. H. Clark, 1417 Sherman
street, Alameda, was the last person, so
far as is known, to see GoetZ. The lady is
filled with alarm for the safety of her
friend, and is positive that the young
man must be either dead or so situated
that he is unable to communicate with
her, otherwise Mrs. Clark is positive the
student would certainly let her know
as to his safety and his whereabouts.
'Goetz is a remarkably frugal young
man, said Mrs. Clark yesterday, land
so far as his friends know had neither
bad habits nor vices. He was working
third-the junior year. So far as 1 know
he had no enemies. He had but few
lady friends; in fact, he was rather diff
dent IN seeking the society of young
women. He came to see me on Saturday
evening, arriving about o'clock. We
chatted for some time, and then Goetz,
hour, declared he must go to see a friend
whom he had promised to meet on Park
street any time between and u O'Clock.
L demonstrated with him as to the late
ness of the hour, and advised him to let
the meeting go until the next morning
He was obdurate, however, and said he
could not break the appointment There
upon he left, promising to be back in less
than half an hour
a peculiar feature of the case is that
the missing man before he left the Clark
residence gave his watch and chain and
return ticket to Pa1o Alto to Mrs Clark
for safekeeping. The placing of his val
uables In the possession of Mrs. Clark
came about so naturally that there was
nothing in the transaction to arouse the
suspicious of the lady.
"Goetz showed me his watch" said Mrs.
Clark "as he was very proud of it. He
said 1t had been given to him by the
King Richardson Publishing Company of !
San Jose as; reward for faithful serv-
ice. Goetz during the summer vacation |
had been canvassing for the firm, and /
the watch was their token of esteem for T
the highly satisfactory 6is way in which
off the watch for me to examine and l
afterward did not put it on, but let it
with the ticket. He placed it quite casu-
ally beside the watch, where he also put
4 white embroidered silk handkerchief
4 gift from me to him last Chrstmas-a
fact which he recalled to my renem-
Mrs. Clark met AdoIph Goetz three
oloyed down there in the students res
After serving about three
inued at Palo Alto. attending lectures
1t the university. The lady, who is a
widow and quite elderly, is now making
Ter living by doing seamstress work.
Goetz was in the habit of calling upon
Mrs. Clarke every two OF three months
md usually remained from Saturday I'M
ii Sunday, and sometimes until Monday.
When he called on Mrs. Clark on Satur-
lay he informed the lady that he had I.
)een in San Francisco during the day
Intending to business, the nature of which
lie did not explain.
The missing student has no relatives in
hese parts. His only brother, Christian
1oetz is a member of the Fourteenth
infantry, Company K, now serving in
Manila.
At Stanford Goetz has always been
Known for the popularity of his habits
He was always alone and seemed desi-
Gus of keeping entirely to himself In
lass ne sat by himself and so far as is
lnown he had no intimate friends here
lie was extremely poor, and lived by
himself in the pigeon" house, a small
tructure on the Mayfield road. He did
lot have the name among his professors
# being a bright student. but one who
,ot his work by dint of hard labor To
ecure funds to help himself along in COL
eye he did homework in the families of
he professors. Before coming to STAN
ord GoetZ was graduated from the West
indiana Normal School, where he was
student for three years.