The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1907-10-11
Many Americans Who Dis
appear i'm Mexico.
WHAT BECOMES OF THEM
Persistent Inquiry Does Not Seem to
Bring Forth Any Information
Regarding Whereabouts.

City of Mexico, Oct. S.-Many Ameri
cans mysteriously disappear in Mexico
Hardly day passes that the Ameri
can consulate general in this city is
not in receipt of one or more inquiries
from anxious relatives or friends OF
some missing man. In a few instances
the subject of inquiry is found, but in
most cases no clew is obtained that will
shed light upon the strange disappear
ance
What becomes of these Americans
who drop out of sight in Mexico? 1t
is an unsolved problem. A few of them
may have met with foul play and
their bodies put out of the way, but
it is believed that such cases are rare.
Most of the Americans who leave
their home in the United States and
come to Mexico in search of fortune
are of an adventurous spirit.
They usually make their way to
some remote mining camp, where they
remain isolated for months and even
years, while their relatives and friends
may be making frantic inquiries as
to their whereabouts. In some instanc-
es the newcomer changes his name,
and in this way his identity is lost. Some
meet with death in accidents and the
news of the fatality never reaches the
outside world.
The American consul general in this
city tries to locate these missing men
when his attention is called to the
cases. Some curious instances of alb
sent -mindedness have been revealed in
running down clews of missing Ameri-
cans in this country. About three
years ago a young business man of
Chicago came to this city on a pleas
ure trip. He was accompanied by two
friends. They spent several days around
town, enjoying themselves in the way
followed by most tourists.
On the day that they were to leave
for home the young business man could
not be found A search lasting several
weeks was made for him, but no trace
of his whereabouts was discovered.
Nearly a year went by, when he
showed up one day in this city He
was reminded that his family and
friends had hunted all over Mex
leo for him and had given him
up for dead. The only expla
strange conduct was that he happened
to meet a mining man here the even
ing before he was to have left
for home, and that he was Of
fered proposition to purchase an
interest in good mining property. He
left early the following morning to in
spect the mine, without telling his COM
panions of his intentions. He liked the
proposition so well that he purchased
an interest in it and remained to give
it his personal supervision. He said that
he had been so busy that he never
thought about writing home or to any
of his friends. He had cleaned up
several thousand dollars in the mine
and returned to it without expressing
any desire to 90 back home.
Among the late inquiries as to the
whereabouts of missing Americans is
one from Colorado wanting to know
where Wilson Frazer Mccoy, civil
engineer, can be found. Mr., Mccoy
was last heard from at Tlschiehilco,
state of Vera Cruz. Mr.. and Mrs. j.
n. Holcomb, formerly of Pecos City,
Tex, are also among the missing.
They lived for some time at Chihuahua
Mexico.