Hattiesburg daily news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-22
M'AENRY CITIZEN
HAS DISAPPEARED
HAS NOT BEEN HEARD FROM IN
OVER FIVE YEARS.
Had Property in the Town and Was
Prominent Real Estate Agent Prior
to His Mysterious Disappearance
Relatives are Looking For Him. .

Q. G. Blakeley, who was formerly a
real estate agent in McHenry, is
missing and his relatives desire to
know of his whereabouts.
AS will be seen by an advertise
ment in another column the missing
man disappeared suddenly and mys-
teriously from McHenry about five
years ago since which time mere has
been no trace of him.
| In conversation with a Daily News
reported, Mr.. S. T. Mitchell of Mo-
selle, Miss, who Is a nephew of Mr.,
Blakeley said:
Mr. Blakeley, my uncle, was a very
quiet and unassuming man, devout
Christian without any bad habits and
his disappearance has caused us con-
siderable worry as he owned a good
deal of property in McHenry. The
action l am taking now to discover
his whereabouts is at the desire of
to know whether he is alive or dead
Continuing Mr.. Mitchell said that
Mr. Blakely was interested in certain
property across the bay from the city
of Mobile at place called Blakeley-
town and it was feared that he had
made visit to that place and had
met with foul play.
The reason that such a length OF
time had been allowed to elapse be-
| fore inquiries were made or a search
| begun for the missing man was be
cause all the family disliked notoriety
in the first place and in the second
place Mr. Blakeley was not regular
correspondent with his relatives anC
they had no way of knowing what his
condition or position was. Now thai
he has been missing so long, they feal
that something dreadful has happen
ed to him and they have inserted this
advertisement with the hope that hi
may see it, If he still lives, and re
SpOnd 10 III nlmSel1.
Mr.. Mitchell describes his missin,
uncle as having been a man past 4,
years of age, slightly gray in hi
brown hair, with brown eyes, a littl
less than six feet in height and yer,
erect in bearing. He never drank
was not communicative, was yer
quiet on the other hand and was @
the quietest disposition.
However, from what Mr.. Mitche
says there have been no very perth
ent inquiries made in McHenry an
no knowledge is possessed by hiI
of the real estate Mr.. Blakeley is sal
to have owned except that it is gel
orally supposed that he owned quit
a lot of it.
The nephew Mr.. Mitchell, informe
McHenry to see his uncle and stoI
ped with him at his boarding plac
but it had been so long ago that h
had forgotten with whom he stopped
, 1t appears from the story of MI
Mitchell that Mr. Blakeley simply dis
appeared one day from his usua
hunts and while he may have gone t
Blakeleytown to see about the prof.
erty he thought belonged to the fan
lily, theer is really no telling wher
he went or what he did. He live
alone, so far as associations go, /
that he kept to himself. was uncon
municative and had only bushes
dealings with any one.
Mr.. Mitchell said that he would g
to McHenry to look over the stu;
ton and that in the meantime h
hoped that some one knew of hi
uncle would write him.
He expressed sincere desire, fo
family reasons, to hear from his reli
' tive and it is possibility that b
will do so.