Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-02-13
JOHN DUNN Of
TOOELE MISSING
Aged Brother Comes to Salt
Lake to Try and Trace
Him.
MAY SOLVE BRIDGE MYSTERY.
Probable Connection Between Finding
Hairs ON w. Pacific Tracks.

The peace officers of two counties. TO-
gether with James Dunn, today arc
conducting search in the hope of ind
ing some trace of John Dunn. who has
been absent from his home In Tooele
for 10 days.
While Detective Shannon holds a con-
trary opinion. others believe that theirs
may be a connection between the dis
appearance OF James Dunn, and the
finding of q hat with II blood clot on it
and white hairs sticking TO It near the
Western Pacific bridge on the Jordan
last week. This mystery, like the dis
appearance of Dunn remains unsolved,
and Dunn was an old man, with white
hair. He also had q white beard, and
was mentally unbalanced to a slight
degree.
The hunt for MIR. Dunn began yester-
day, led by James Dunn, brother, and
his neighbors, and participated in by
officers from the sheriffs force In Tooela
county. Today Sheriff Emery was
notified as well as the Salt Lake POI
lice department, and special notiica~
ton was sent TO the officers at Garfield.
as the last time the missing man was
seen was on the Salt Lake Route track
between Garfield and L. T. City, Ii
miles from where he started on trip
to Salt Lake.
STARTED OUT TO WALK
That was Oh Monday, Feb. 4, about
noon. As his Tooele relatives believed
he had come 10 Salt Lake they We're not
worried until they received word from
members Of his family who reside here
that he had not arrived. This caused
general anxiety. and started his BROTH
er out on an immediate search for
trace of him. He started out, after
notifying the Tooele sheriff yesterday
afternoon, and had no difficulty in trac-
ing his brother across the country to the
railroad track, 10 miles distant. Farm
ers living along the way declared that
they had seen him walking along on
clear day. holding an umbrella aloft as
II It We're raining This had caused
them TO notice him particularly, and
It seemed that he had walked directly
to the railroad track.
From this point no trace could be
found of him. The brother drove to
the city this morning, and this after
noon returned to GARFIELD to continue
the search in that locality.
MENTALLY UNBALANCED.
When interviewed this morning Mr..
Dunn, who is editor and proprietor of
the Toocle Transcript. said that he
could not give a fun description OF the
missing man as he had not seen him
for a week before he started his trip
into Salt Lake. and was not positive
just how he was dressed, He was,
however, man well along in years,
with white hair and a white beard.
rather corpulent, and in his sixty
fourth year He was very reticent
about talking, and carried this trait
almost to the point of being sullenly
silent most Of the time. With his
oncoming old age his mind has be-
come snteebled and he has not been
In possession of his full faculties for
some time.
Mr. Dunn talked with Detective
Shannon over the incident of finding
hat near the Jordan but ne agrees
with the detective that the incident
Is probably not related. as he thinks
his brother wore a cap Instead Of a
hat. although on this point ne is not
certain.
Members OF his family reside at 223
east Sixth South street in this city. He
came TO Utah in 1868, and for years
was well known paper hanger and
painter.