The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1902-02-11
"A VANISHED
BONE SETTER
DR.. WILSON MAKES UNCEREMON-
IoUs DEPARTURE.
Leaves FAMILY IN LURCH
Recent Graduate of Popular School
Departs Without Formally of
Saying Goodbye.
Sundays Daily Gazette.

After waiting for about TWO weeks
to hear from him and being disap-
pointed, the wife and children VI Dr..
Wilson, who has been relieving suf-
fering humanity through the medium
of ~osteopathy, have come to the
mournful conclusion that he has de
serted them and does not intend to
return.
The missing man was formerly en-
gagged in the business Of divestinS
masculine chins of superfous h.rsure
~appendages and giving more SHAPED,
form to the capillary adornment OF
the heads of such as submitted them
selves to his skill, but sometime ago
concluded that there was more mon
ey and honor in the calling of d ply
stefan of the osteopathic school and
induced a4relative to furnish the mon
ey with which to enable him to study
and qualify himself for that calling:
Upon his graduation he returned to
the city and hung out his sign in the
GruWell block. To all appearances
and soon built up a considerable prac-
tice, having among his clients MANY
men who formerly We're patrons Of
the establishment with which he was
connected before the noble art of cur
ing diseased humanity appealed to
him. But these were not all who sub
scribed their m on his list Of pa
TENTS, and his practice expanded to
the degrees where he branched out
and began to supply himself with an
X ray machine and other appliances
of the successful osteopath.
Not having the needed money to
pay for all the instruments, he is said
to have approached several persons
for loans, and. so. it is alleged. man
aged to secure a considerable sum in
the aggregate. He also collected all
his outstanding accounts, except a
few, the total Of which is small. One
of those whom he is alleged to have
victimized is the relative who in the
past has stood by him.
According to the story said to have
even then, it now appears, the doctor
was preparing for flight. On one pre-
text or another, it is claimed, he man.
aged to take his clothes. Or at least
the major portion of them from his
home to his office, and at the time
of his disappearance had about all
his wardrobe there.
The last time he was seer by his
family was about two weeks ago, at
breakfast. On that occasion he hasti.
ly drank a cup of coffee and rushed
Used to be at his office early that
morning in order that the janitor
might clean up the place and wash his
transom. Subsequently it was learn
ed that a passenger train from the
west, which happened to be late. was
expected to arrive about the time he
left home and it is now believed that
he boarded it and started for the east.
Anyway, he has not been seen since
then.
A friend of the doctors family in
forms The Gazette that after his dis
appearance Mrs. wilson found a note
addressed to her from her husband
in which he said that he could not
live happily with her any longer and
that he had decided to leave her. No
intimation was given as to the direc-
ton he intended to take or where he
expected to go. 1t was in the hope
that he might relent and return to his
home that caused the mans family to
say nothing about his desertion of
them, but yesterday they are said to
have told several friends that all hope
of his coming back had been abandon
ed and they thought the truth might
as we'll be told, as his supposed
abandonment of them had become a
public secret.
Fortunately Mrs. Wilson has rela-
tives and friends who will care for
her, as she was left in decidedly mar
rowed circumstances by her truant
spouse.
Although it is not known for an
absolute certainty, it is believed by
members of Wilson's family that the
%proverbial woman" is in the case.
Strayed or Stolen.