The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-09-16
IN AN ASYLUM.
Geo. 4. Kimmel, Missing Arkan-
sas City Banker, Found.
Disappeared in 1898 With Ac-
counts in Good Shape.
A MYSTERIOUS CASE.
Sold Some Bonds in Topeka But
Sent Money Back.
Left $4,000 Life Insurance
Which Relatives Collected.

Chicago, Sept. 16.-George A. KimmeI
the missing cashier of the Farmers Ma
tional bank of Arkansas City, Kan, who
disappeared in Kansas City seven years
ago. has ben discovered in an insane
asylum in New York.
simultaneously with the discovery the
New York Life Insurance company has
begun suit to recover $685. 600 life insur-
ance paid to Kimmels sister in Chicago.
The policies were taken out short time
before the disappearance of Kimmel and
were paid after a long search had failed
to find trace of the missing man. The
sister to whom the policy is said to have
been made over is said to be Mrs. Edna
K. Neenslet of Chicago, but her address
is not known here.
For seven years Kimmel was pre-
sunably dead Pinkerton detectives
traced him to Topeka and to Kansas
City, where he is said to have cashed
a draft on his own bank for $500 and
to have disappeared July 80, 1898. 1t
was at the instance of C. A. Johnson,
a relative of Kimmel that the search
was begun. 1t was found that he had
remained at Kansas City two days and
then dropped out of sight until he
was identified recently in a New York
asylum. Johnson was president of the
First National bank of Niles. Mich.
Kinmel formerly lived in Niles,
Mich He went to Arkansas City,
Kas-, and became cashier in a bank
there in which Johnson was interested.
Since then johnson got in trouble with
his own bank and, according to the
Pinkertons, he is now in the Michigan
state prison.
George A. Kimmel, the missing Ar
kansas City Kan. bank cashier left
that city on Friday, July 20, 1898. He
went direct to Topeka, where he sold
$4,000 worth of Creswen township
bonds. He sent the money secured
from the sale of the bonds to the
City, of which he was the cashier.
Kimmel was expected to return home
at once, bringing the money from the
bond sale instead of sending it back.
Instead he left Topeka on an early
afternoon train of that day for Kansas.
City At the Midland hotel, where he
registered, he received by mail draft
for $500. which he cashed at the hotel
An hour later or at o'clock p. m. he
entered a cab in front of the hotel
with three men and that is the last,
so far as there is any record here,
seen of George A. Kimmel. The
never discovered nor. the identity of
his companions on that ride
The Pinkerton detective agency took
up the case few days later by the
direction of KimmePs uncle, Charles
A. Johnson of Niles. Mich. Superin-
tendent F. H. TilIotson of the agency
said of the case last night:
There has not been one tangible
clew to the whereabouts of Cashier
Kimmel The last seen of him so far
as the Pinkertons could learn was
when he stepped into cab in front of
the Midland hotel in the summer of SO.
One hundred thousand circulars in six
different languages were scattered
broadcast over the world, but without
result His uncle, Mr.. Johnson of Niles,
Mich, paid for the prosecution of the
search we made for him. He spent
about S., 900. The uncle was interested
with Kimmel in the bank at Arkansas
City and was also cashier of a bank in
the Michigan town. He is now in the
penitentiary convicted for the TniSap-
preparation of funds from the bank of
which he was an officer. However, the
search for Kimmel by our force has
never ceased. We ran down and ex-
hausted hundreds of clews without get
ting anything to work on that promised
results We have had nothing on the
case now for several years
H C. Boone, director of agencies for
the New York Life Insurance company,
in which Kimmel held policies on his
life for $4,000, taken out some months
prior to his disappearance, and who at
that time had supervision of the agency
at Arkansas City, recalled only indis-
tinctIy the KimmeI transaction.
1.-THE New York Office" said he
ehas not sent me any instructions in
this case and I do not know of the re-
cent developments regarding Kimmel
in New York Kfmnel also holds a
policy for $4,000 in the Bankers
Life"
In December, 1898, A. H. Denton of
Arkansas City. who succeeded Kimmel
as cashier in the Farmers National
bank. came to Kansas City and in an
interview said:
"Our people have never ceased to