Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-08-20
LIST OF ABSEN TIE ES
PARTIES REPORTED BY FRIENDS
TO BE MISSING.
Police Kept Busy Searching for Them
Case of Young Manning
Still Unexplained.

Twenty days ago Leonard Coagie. colored,
seventeen years old and six feet tall left
his home in Hiisdale and failed to return
Yesterday when nothing had been heard
from him the police We're appealed to for
assistance. and have sent a description of
the missing boy to the various police sta
tons.
Another resident of that section reported
missing is Sarah Dyson, co, ored, forty years
old. The police were told that she went
away from home about ten days ago and
failed to return or send word of her where
ahouts She lived at the home of her
brother, on Pierson street Garfield and Is
supposed to be demented. 1t is thought
she went in the woods near her house,
strayed away and became lost She has
relatives and friends in the city, but the
police have not been informed that she has
reached the home of any of them.
These are only two of many disappear
ances reported during the past few weeks
Interest in the cases was revived by the
finding Of the body of the missing Martha
Rodgers in a well at her sisters home last
Wednesday, and the reported finding of
John J. Manning. the boy who disappeared
three years ago. as heretofore published In
The Star.
Another message has been received by
Capt. Boardman relative to the boy who
was found in Boone, Iowa. some days ago
and who was supposed to be the missing
son of DR.. Manning. Mayor Goodykoontz
repeats the assertion that he believes the
boy is Jack Manning, and expresses the be-
lief that he will return home.
Believes He is Jack Manning.
at is my judgment that the boy who was
here is John Manning" writes the mayor,
for his features and the upper part OF his
face bore very marked resemblance to the
newspaper picture inclosed. His face is
MI thinner II VS. Uybnp he nj
taken, but otherwise there was, as L
say, a marked resemblance, and personally
l think that the boy who was here is the
boy you are looking for. l still believe that
he will turn up at home before long. His
travelling companion. John Humphrey,
claimed to be res dent of Nashville Tenn,
and the boys have been together for two
and one-haif years. They have spent most
of their time in Texas. and claim they have
worked in Galveston, Dallas and Fort
Worth in the capacity of linemen for tele-
graph and telephone companies.
In conclusion. the mayor writes that he Is
in communication with the police of Chi
cago and Clinton, Iowa, the reported desti-
nations of the Humphrey boy, and says he
thinks he can trace the Manning boy and
locate him. DR.. Manning and his wife are
far from being convinced that the boy who
was started here by Mayor Goodykoontz is
their son. They still of the opinion
that the boy out there tricked the police
and themselves.
Missing John Griffin.
The most puzzling disappearance reported
to the police is that of John or Jack"
Griffin, the plate printer, who has now
been away from home several weeks. He
was employed in the bureau of engraving
and printing and disappeared as completely
as if he had been swallowed by the earth.
His wife and a host of friends have been
engaged in fruitless search for him since
the day he left sanitarium.
AS stated in The Star at the time his
friends thought he had wandered off into
the woods and died. and went to a place
near JesSup to view the remains of a corpse
found in the woods there. Thus far not
word has been heard from him, and some
of his friends are convinced that he Is dead,
while others think he is alive and will re-
turn home some day.
Besides those reported missing from
homes in this city there are several resi-
dents of Maryland, who lived within
short distance of this city, reported to have
suddenly disappeared.