Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-03-19
MISSING FROM HOME.
John Wesley Wiley and Eighteen
Others Called to Attention of Police.

A message was received at police head
quarters yesterday by Capt. Humphrey,
chief Of the Baltimore detective force, ask
Ing that the police look out for John Wes-
ley Wiley, grocer. who disappeared from
his home about a month ago. His wife,
bride Of three months, is nearly frantic
over his continued absence. About IL
o'clock the morning of February 16, the
grocer left his store. telling his clerk he
would return in fifteen minutes, giving in
strUctions for him to tell callers to wait
until his return. A few minutes before his
departure he was talking to his wife at
their home, which adjoined the store. The
missing mans wife says there was no ral-
son for him to go away. There had never
been the slightest suspicion of trouble be-
tween them and his financial affairs were
in good shape Mrs Marshall, motherin
law of the missing man, speaking Of his
disappearance, said:
1T seems as though the earth has opened
and swallowed him up. No reason can /
give for his sudden disappearance. l can
not think of single thing that would take
him away from his home and wife. He
was young man of the most exemplary
habits and had, to NY knowledge, absolute
ly no vices at all. He was not of rowing
disposition and seemed devoted to his
home. Our family is broken up by the &C.
currence. He had not to my knowledge,
any business that would take him away
from the city, and If he had he would nat
urally have written If he were alive
The father of the missing man speaks
lightly of his sons conduct, and suggests
that he has probably gone to the Klondike
gold fields. Capt. Humphrey furnished the
following description of Wiley:
"THenty-four years old. five feet four
inches tail. weight. $50 pounds; forid COM
phexion, smooth face, chestnut hair in
clined to be curly; dark brown eyes, wears
gold spectacles. but does not require their
constant use. In walking he betrays a
noticeable sway"
A week after the young man went away
his stock Of goods went into the hands of
the sheriff to be sold. The goods did not
sell Tor enough to cover the indebtedness
of the merchant
Since the first of this month the Ba!ti-
more police have been asked to institute a
search for eighteen missing persons, resi-
dents OF that city. The names of the miss
Ing ones are: Victor l.. Christopher.
twenty-five years old; Helena Mckee fif-
teen years old. George NJ. Swetteman .hir-
teen years old: Gordon Snyder thirteen
years old: John Orem, sixteen years old :
Anthony Elliott. colored. seventy years old ;
Samuel Somers. seventy years old: Hen
rietta Greer, eighty years old; James Muir
name, eighteen years old: Charles E. u.
Shriver. forty-five years old; Mary Butler
colored. sixteen years old: Joseph Sher-
man. twelve years old: Max Coplan, forty
years old; Henry Quester, fifteen years
old; George Hildebrand twenty-four years
old; John J. Timanus, twenty-eight years
80 I'm. )" !" iIeS' twenty -IOur years O'I,
EDWARD II. Freeland. sxty-eiSht years old
Ralph Farmer. colored, ten years old who
disappeared from his home, 400 Sd street
northeast. Monday. has not yet returned
His mother. Mrs Ellen Farmer. has asked
the police to look out for him. The boy
has light brown skin. At the time he dis
appeared he wore a light gray suit. dark
blouse waist and cap. His description has
been given to the police of the ten pre-
cincts.
A descriptive postal card was received
by capt. Boardman this morning asking
that the police look out for Raymond Man.
love smith. The boy is seventeen years
from his home at Ridley Park. Delaware
county. Pa His father Is anxious to learn
OF his whereabouts