The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1905-01-21

KelIv's periods of transformation from high and
,ieefnl citizenship into an unreasonng, aimless
roamer in the slums of great cities. This part OF
the sad story was learned through cross-cxamining
hundreds of criminals and tenderloin frequenters
in this city and Philadelphia.
Hosn;tals notice stations, houses of detention,
rescue missions morgues dives, hotels of high and
low degree. sailors boarding houses, and ships
have been searched for HIM III VAIN
When all this inquiry was found to be frmtless
the aid of the best detectives In this country was
invoked bv his friends. The sleuths put mlcros-
copes on the missing mans actions ano haoltS TOT
tho last score of wears and in the astounding revea
tions unearthed by them they say they have found
the evn1anation of the mystery. What the detec-
tives found, however, is ins significant when com
pared with the find made by hey's friends and
business associates when search was made OF the
missing mans effects.
A condition of complete preparation for abso-
1ute and permanent disappearance was found. ne
kew Of his store at 719 Girard avenue, Philadcl-
phia was found on the desk in his room III the
Eagle hotel which is about square distant from
the store He is bachelor and has lived III this
hotel for many years: with TINS k S were iou I
all other keys belonging to him. These included
KEYS TO the drawers in his safe, to his section Ill
the yauIts of the trust company and the key of his
room i'll the hotel.
The evidences of planned disappearance null
tiplied when q sealed envelope, addressed: TO My
Sister. Bridget he'' was louud Ill uIdHV! VI
the desk. This contained eleven bank notes of 500
each. evidently in repayment of loan given to him
by his sister about twenty years ago.
But even these interesting finds were dwarted
in their capacity for establishment by what the
searchers found i'll the Continental Title Trust
company's books About of years ago, a
nartnership in which there was never word of
written and but few of verbal agreements was
entered into between Daniel Wade of Germantown
and Owen Kelly.
Mr.. Wade had started in the textile business
with q few LOOMS one of which operated by
himself When the time came to make payments
upon the raw material i'll which, he worked Mr.
Wade found he could save considerable sum by
paving cash and saving the usual discounts He
had no ready cash, however In this emergency
Owen Kelly volunteered to lend him the money
without interest 1t is believed that Kelly refused
to take a note for the money he advanced.
Wade kept accurate account of every penny ne mad
saved through payment of discounts. His business
increased so that the few looms multiplied
into the Welcome mills. and he left the loom for a
handsomely furnished office. One day he surprised
Kelly by saying Here is your share OF the money
the Welcome mills have made"
When the trust company's books were examined
If was found that there was just 1925 remaining on
deposit Owen Kelly had withdrawn the fortune
upon which Daniel Wade had counted.
On top of this came the claim of heDy's first
cousin. Francis Mulgrew, saloonkeeper of Seven
tieth and Columbus avenues, New Gork that Kelly
has $4,000 of his money His statement is to the
effect that Kelly advanced about $4,000 to HIM
to start the saloon and that partnership without
a written agreement was entered into alter he had
repaid the loan.
Il is not believed by those who know him that
Owen Kelly has actually taken the money of his
partners. Both Wade and Mulgrew said to be
ready to forgive him and even to give him money
for new start in life,