The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-09-30
DOCTOR STRANGELY MISSING.
BOWERS FELL FROM TRAIN on
SATURDAY.; NOT SEEN SINCE.
Was Thrown From Platform While Passing
Through Bayonne-Friend Saw Him
Fall. but Conductor wouldn't Stop
Search Reveals no Trace or Him.

Through Bayonne-Friend Saw Him
Fall. but Conductor wouldn't Stop
Search Reveals no Trace or Him.
A young man who said he was Gerald E.
Lands. carpenter. living at l28th street
and Riverside Drive, went to Police He ad-
quarters last night and asked that a
general alarm be sent out for DR.. Clar-
ence G. Bowers of 70 Monitor street,
Greenpoint, who, Lands said. had
fallen from Baltimore and Ohio express
train on Saturday night while it was passing
through Bayonne and of whom no trace
had since been found.
Lands told Sergt. Sullivan of the In
formation Bureau that he and Bowers
started out together TO go to Philadelphia
on Saturday, on the train that left Jersey
City at 7:l2 in the evening
Bowers, who is a young practising ply
sician had invited Lands to 60 with him
on visit to the formers parents, in Vest
field, N. j., which is not far from Phila-
delghia; .,. .., ~, .,,,,. IL, ,,,,n,,... ~. ,ron,
the Jersey City station and between Twen-
ty-second and Thirty-third streets in Bay.
onne, said Lands, Bowers and started
to 60 from the smoking car to the baggage
car we kueW Lno UAHkdSe WoHtCo
to have talk with him.
As We were crossing the platform be-
tween the two cars Bowers got dizzy and
fell off, The train was going about twenty
five or thirty miles an hour. l informed
the conductor Of what had happened, and
begged him to let me Off
HE refused, and carried me to Elizabeth,
where took the next train back to Jersey
City.
Then walked back along the track to
where Bowers tumbled of. i met one
Of the railroad company's inspectors on
the way and he went with me: Although
we searched every foot Of the distance
carefully, we couldn't find the slightest
trace Of my friend
yonne police stations, hospitals and other
institutions In the hope that he might get
Some word Of Bowers, but there was no
trace of him. He made q similar search
in Elizabeth and Westfeld.
On Sunday he returned to this city and
has since been searching day and night
for some news of the missing physician.
both In New Jersey and In this city.
John W. Bowers, the father OF the missing
doctor, came on from Westfeld yesterday
and Joined In the search. The father &C.
companied lands to Police Headquarters
last night.
"It's almost incredible that there should
be no trace OF Bowers, SAID Landls, ana the
only way we can account for 1t is that he
was dazed by the fall and wandered Off
somewhere away from the railroad. Per-
haps he's being taken care of by some far
mer. or it may be he was held up for his
jewelry.'
Landis said that the railroad officials
had made careful inquiries to discover IL
possible what had become Of Bowers. They
had had the cars and tracks near where
ne fell examined and found no trace Of
blood, and 1t was certain, they said. that
the man could not have been run over.
The missing man. Lands said. was Is
wears old and a graduate Of the Jefferson
Medical College Of philadelphia. He weighs
about 1855 pounds is feet s1S inches tall,
and has brown hair and a sandy mustache.
When he disappeared he wore a light
overcoat, q black coat and vest, striped
trousers and low cut patent leather shoes.
His Ill.,, ssxerEK Kama consisted ,ns1srstv D OF
metal watch. gold chain. a snake
ring with a diamond in the head and a
clover leaf stickpin with diamond in
it's centre. He also had birthmark on the
back Of his neck.