The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1905-08-03
SON WAS DRuCCED, il.
FATHER. A. / Kinks! 4 N s!
Mystery Dccpcns III the Case Of
Young Midshipman Now
Missing. s
MAY BE ADRIFT5 .l:' B. !; IN BOSTON 81 . II
Father Says That No Ordinary
Influence Could Keep Him
From Ship.
Way BE ADRIFT5 IN BOSTON
tspe cial to The TImes-Dispalch.)

Especial to The Times -Dispalch.)
NEW YORK. August 2.--Detective SER
geants from the Central Bureau and those
connected with the West Sixty eighth
Street Station are still seeking Midship-
man Robert Allen Jackson. whose dlsap-
pearance from the city on Saturday was
a matter Of concern to his shipmates on
the Missouri, and his father, D. II. Jack
son, Of Petersburg. Va, who has been in
Now York since Monday trying to locate
him.
Young jackson was last seen with Olga
MAXWELL who lives at No. 1O4 West Six
ty-ninth Street. TO her Mr.. Jackson
went on Tuesday night to employ every
effort TO get her to tell where sheleft the
midshpnnn. Calm-faced. M cool In her
demeanor, the Maxwell woman; said she
went to Boston with the mIdshipman;
Ing ana returned to New York alone that
game evening. She said:
~ left the house in West Sixty-ninth
Street Sunday with your son. We went
to the JOY Line pier and boarded n boat
bound for Boston. We did not reach Bos-
ton because OF the fogs until Monday
morning. Then we put up at a hotel In
Chelsea. don't remember the name.
We stayed there until Tuesday morning.
Then we went to Boston. Mr. Jackson
took me to the South Street Station and
put me aboard a train for New York l
have not heard from him nor seen him
since"
4 The young mans father who has hardly
slept an hour since his son disappeared.
said tonight:
IT am firmly convinced that Allen was
drugged He Is detained somewhere, He
Is such strong minded boy that no in
fuence could keep him from his ship.
I know my boy too we'll to feel that any
woman could keep him from duty. I
will never for moment feel that he will
fully deserted his ship"
May Be in Boston.
p6sP6N sPesa K %Ass Ths Hasu2t Ptsp:ea R9Dert
Allen Jackson, midshipnan, missing from
tho battleship Missouri since last Friday,
Is believed to be adrift somewhere In
Boston.
All trace of Jackson, whose father, Cap.
tain D. Hugh Jackson, Is connected with
the Standard Oil Company. and lately
to Washington, was lost in Boston Mon
day at noon, when Olga Maxwell, ,"the
Russian countess. :" with whom Jackson
came to Boston LETT HIN on Boston Com; COZ
ms she found Boston too SLOW, Eight
fancy detectives and something like 5000
ordinary policemen were looking for Jack
son in New York yesterday, but they
Boston slcuths are having their chance.
Officers OF the Missouri are more worried
than they care to acknowledge
Had Promising Career.
Especial to The eTimes-Dispatch)
PETERSBURG, VA, Aug 2.-Robert
Allen Jackson Is about tWenty;Ione y; on y, yenraS ar
md Ina The promise Of a successful
future. He is the son of Captain D. Hugh
Jackson, until recently Of Petersburgi aG by
whose family name he enjoys He is a
graduatc OF The Petersburg High School,
and was student at the Virginia Military
Institute at the time OF his appointment
napolIs, from which he graduated with
distinction in the class OF 1904.