Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-16
Central Employe Suddenly Dis
appears, Leaving Family
of Small Children
SEARCH REVEALS NOTHING
Has Disappeared as Tho the Earth
Had Opened and Swallowed Him
Was Supposed to Have Been Mem
tally Deranged Case Most Pc
culiar One.

Where is Fred ID. Bailey. of S0T West
State street? Has he met death, or
while temporarily deranged has he
left the city and his family of six
motherless children, or has he delib-
erately abandoned them to the mercy
of the public? These are some OF
the questions which are being asked
by those who are familiar with the
case. At any rate he has disappeared
and it is believed he was influenced
by the imagination OF an intirm mind.
He has blotted himself out. and Il
persistent search on the part of the
sherins officers and friends of the
family for the past two days has re
vealed no trace of him. Bailey is Il
machinist and has been employed at
was seen for the last time when he
left his home in the morning with his
dinner pail, apparently with the inten-
tons of going to his work as usual.
Since then, SO far as is known, he
has not been seen. His pay check
still remains at the Central, uncalled
for, and on going away he made no
request for his time. His eldest daugh-
ter, a girl of IA, who has been a mother
to the number of small children since
the death of Mrs. Bailey, a little oyer
a year ago, said that his actions of
Thursday, on leaving the house, We're
not unusual. altho she noticed thar
he Wore a better suit of clothes than
was his custom on going to the shops
Outside of that she knows nothing
altho she said her father had been act
ing queerly during recent weeks. The
facts in the case did not become known
until Saturday afternoon. when HUI
name Officer Liebiss heard OF the
case and visited the home. The child
rem. during the time their father was
at home, We're we'll provided for, as
he owned the place in which they
lived, but his going has left them
without means of support, altho they
will be provided for by the county
until the head of the household is
found or other means are provided for
them.
An older son, Fred D. Bailey, Jr.,
q young man of about IS, who has
been working at Little York, ILL.,. was
telegraphed Saturday and arrived
here today. 1t was learned by Sheriff
Hutson that a man answering the
description was working on the farm
OF Joseph Peschel, about q mile north
OF Ferguson. The son drove to the
farm Sunday, but the man was gone
and from the description gathered
there the son is confident it was not
his father. Other cues are now being
followed. 1t has been ascertained that
recently Bailey had spoken several
times Of sister living at Avoca, and
it is thought that he may have gone
there. It is also thought that he might
possibly have gone to the state of
where several OF the en-
ployers from the Iowa Central shops
have gone recently.
Has Been Insane.
II Bailey is laboring under unsound
mental influences, it is doubtless re-
currence of his old trouble. He was
brought before the commissioners last
fall. but his condition was not thought
to warrant his beirig sent to the state
hospital for treatment. He was in
structed to report each month to Clerk
of Courts Knisely. and had done so
until three months ago. He had acted
aueerly about home. and his peculiar
actions were also noticed by his fellow
workmen where he. was employed.