Bisbee daily review., 1903-04-16
TWO MISSINGS"
Iconyrieh, lsoa. hy H. A. Jenks. ]

mysterious disappearance' of a well known citizen, but you have only to follow the case for a few days to find that there were good reasons why he should drop out of sight. There is no mystery where the man is an embez- xler or defauiter or has become infatu- ated with an adventures.
 The case of Milo Hastings was one which hundreds of people pasted away in their scrapbooks and which scores ct sheriffs and detectives have reason to growl over.
 Hastings was a young man twenty three years old. steady and temperate and serious minded. He was half own CT in a foundry at Jefferson City, Mo, and al the time of his disappearance was making lots of money and was en- gagged to a handsome girl who would bring him fortune.
 One day in June, 1867, he called at the bank and deposited $S.000 which had just been paid to the firm. He had a private account of over s12,ooO in the same bank. He owed no man q dollar. had never had quarrel with any body. and his health was excellent He had left the bank at 2 o'clock with a smile on his face. and up to this horr his ease is an unsolved mystery. He went somewhere, but where? He did not go by boat or train. He did not drive or ride on horseback. Fifteen minutes aft CT he left the bank be was asked for and could not be found.
 The first theory in Hastings case was that he was involved financially. The next was that he wanted to evade marriage. The third that he had been decoyed to some place and robbed and murdered. The fourth that he was g victim of temporary insanity.
 None of the theories would bear in was anxious for the marriage to take place, that his financial situation was Al, that there were no particularly bad men in Jefferson City just then and that his mind was never clearer and stronger than on that day
 why did he goT' vas asked by thousands and Where did he go tor by other thousands, but to this date there has been no satisfactory answer. There were those who held that he committed suicide by jumping into the river For three weeks the stream was watched and patrolled for 6 distance of fifty miles. The search covered every acre of ground for miles around.
 Every highway was travelled and in- quiries made. Thousands of circulars having his photograph and description were sent out. and the reward stood for n year at $10.O00 The best detectives in the country spent weeks on the case and could not trace him beyond the doors of the bank. First and last over fifty men were arrested at different points and held for Identification. but none of them proved to be tbe missing man. You will say with others that he some trace ought to have been discov- cred. but the fact remains that nothing has been learned
 A reasonable theory of the case is that he left the bank to go aboard a steamer on a business errand and that in crossing the gangplank or while moving about aboard he fell into the river and was drowned That his body was not discovered only shows that if might have caught fast on 6 snag at the bottom CT foated past the watchers in the night
 
 It is now about eighteen years since the conductor mystery" occurred. and the solution is SIS far away as ever.
 A railroad conductor named George Hopkins lived in Bowling Green, Ky. At the age of twenty-five he was mar Tied to a girl of good family and es- tablisbed a home. Hopkins was so- Der. steady man and well liked by all who knew him. As far as any one could judge his home life was all that could be desired, while his position as conductor was secure and his salary liberal
 He had been married about ten months when be arranged to build . house. On certain Tuesday after noon he let the contract to a builder and entered into certain other business agreements He went out at 6 o'clock that evening, and his wife accompa- nied him to the depot. He spoke to sev- eral people on the train whom he knew. and there was nothing whatever in his looks-or actions to attract attention.
 The train reached Nashville oD time. and Hopkins reported and got his or ders as usual It was half an hour aft CT the train had pulled cut before he was missed. A telegram was sent back. but DO news of him could be had. Five different people saw Hopkins three or four times before his train pulled out. but Do one saw him board any other train. After couple of days the detec- lives were set 10 work. but they never got the slightest trace of the missing man Had he vanished into air like smoke his disappearance could not have been more mysterious.
 Was Hopkins an embezzler? No On the contrary, the railroad company was in his debt. Had be left his wife for another woman? That theory was worked on. but produced DO proof. Was he "off'' in his headf All those who had done business with him that day secuted the iaea- He iad 1 about $5.a00