The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-04-10
WHERE is JOHN ARN0LD2
Family Fears Some Accident Has
Befallen Him.
MISSING SINCE SATURDAY
The Services OF the Police Enlisted in
the Search-He Was Laborer
Employed at the Parrot
Snelter

The family Of John Arnold is in des-
pair and his friends are fearful that
some untoward mishap has befallen
| him, as he has not been seen since
| Saturday noon and nothing was ever
SO unheard of to them as that he should
| remain away from home over night So
| much concern is felt that two of Ar
nold's, friends visited police headquar-
tiers yesterday morning to enlist the
services of the police in search Of the
city.
| Arnold was laborer employed at
the Parrot smelter and lived with his
| family, a wife and three small children,
at 1881 Utah avenue. His employment
| ceased at the Parrot s1nelter on the list
Of April, and since that time he has
| had no employment. AT noon Saturday
Arnold left home, telling his wife he
would go to the smelter and draw the
money that was coming to him, $66.
| and come right home and go up town
with her, she being DESTROYS of doing
| some shopping.
| In anticipation of her husband full
filling his promise, Mrs Arnold dressed
and sat down to await his return. She
| waited in vain. When the middle of
| the afternoon came and her husband
had not returned, Mrs. Arnold con-
cluded something had detained him and
| decided to abandon her trip up town.
| When supper time arrived and he did
| not put in an appearance, the wife
| commenced to feel worried. She had
| never known her husband to stay away
| so before. The evening passed and
night came, but the husband was still
| absent and the wife's worry increased
l~~r <1
him. She was SO much concerned that
she asked a couple of friends of the
family to see if they could find him.
| These two gentlemen searched the city
high and low till late at night, but
found no trace of the missing man.
They finally returned to Arnold's house
| to see if he had shown up, but he had
not and all were deeply mystified. The
| wife was distracted, for she could think
| of nothing to account for her husbands
prolonged absence.
The two friends decided to continue
the search and kept it up till morning.
| Then having heard nothing of him,
they visited the police to solicit their
assistance. The gentlemen told the po-
lice Arnold was not drinking man.
| Had he ever been known to get drunk
| and stay away from home they would
think that accounted for his disappear
ance, but such conduct was unheard OF.
|
scarcely ever away from home unless
at work, and he had never been known
:, to. stay away at night. His absence
! waS so unaccountablee that like the
wife, they had come to fear something
had happened to him.
| An investigation of Arnold's disap-
pearence was begun early yesterday by
the police under the direction of Chief
Mulholland. While it brought forth no
tidings of the missing man sufficient
was learned to convince the police that
when he is found, if found at all, it
will be as corpse. for there is strong
indication that he committed suicide
to give his family the benefit of his
life insurance. The police investiga-
ton brought to light a sad story.
1t was learned that Arnold was for
merly a man of means. He was tin
ner by occupation, and formerly con-
Quoted a business at Hemetite, Jeffer-
son county, Mo-, and operated a farm
not far from that place. He was in
aff1uent circumstances, but reverses
came and carried away his wealth. and
he was reduced to the necessity of
working at his trade He finally de-
cided to come further west, and last
June located in Butte, but he does
not seem to have shaken off his i'll
fortune by the change, for he was not
successful in finding profitable en-
ployment. He worked at the timers
trade when he could get work, and
being fairly good carpenter, worked
at that business also, but he did not
seem able to get steady employment
at anything. and his misfortunes grad
ually changed a sunny disposition tc
one of moroseness and dependency
SO respondent would he get at times
that he would say to his wife that she
and the children would be much better
off without him.
Two months ago Arnold got work al
the Parrot smeter. His i'll fortune
stuck to him, and the last straw came
He worked to the first of April when
he was discharged, through a msap-
prehension, for another mans fault
Dependency settled down upon him
with tighter grip than ever. He
seemed to think there was no use try
: ing any longer, and he fell to hav-
ing moods. At such times he would
stand and gaze into space for some
| minutes at time, and then, turning
) suddenly, swould repeat to his wife the
. remark that it would be better if hi
were out of the way. Still his wife
, did not dream of his committing sui
eide, not even after his disappearance
until yesterday, when she recalled hav
ing seen her husband have a box IL
his hand as he was leaving Saturday
, which she thought she saw him throw
into the box. She thought she would
; 60 and look for the box to see VIVA
it had contained. She found box O
rough on rats. AS there had neve
been such thing in the house, ant
as the box was not opened, it SCENE,
to indicate that Arnold had contem
plated suicide and had previously pur
:. chased the poison, but from the fac
} that he had thrown the box away, it i
: supposed that he changed his plan
2 From all the circumstances, however
l there seems little doubt that the unfor
3 tunate fellow has made way with him
self and the police are making a thor
ough search of the city, expecting t.
t find his dead body.
n Arnold was 45 years of age and b.
n all who knew him was regarded as
sober. reliable man. He was mem
Der of the Woodmen and other frater
nal organizations in which, it is said
a he was insured for a total of $4,000
1t is the general belief that he ha
o killed himself to give the family tn
, insurance