The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-07-01
WHERE'S MOSS? His COATHERE
WITH HIS TICKET FOR the GEL
TIC-SHE SAILED THURSDAY.
Also Ills sgs claim Checks Which
Tie Got at the Bresl,n on Wednesday
All Found In the Hail Of q West side
Apartment House on Thursday Might.


The police sent out last night a general
alarm for Sidney Moss Of Toronto. manu-
~facturers' agent for a number OF Canadian
and New England woollen and carpet
firms MI. Moss may be safe enough
aboard the White Star liner Celtic, which
sailed last Thursday morning for Liver
rool. but Capt. Henry Halpin and detec-
tives of the West Sixty-eighth street sta
ton have their doubts.
Sidney Moss, who is a robust man, over
c feet tall. weighing more than 200 pounds.
with a fair, ruddy complexion and a brown
mustache, lives in Toronto and has an
Office at s Colborne street in that city
Among the firms he represents ia the Cana
dian Administer Company Limited. OF
Hamilton. Ont. George r. Richie OF
80 Ferry street, this city. ia president OF
the concern and n friend Of Moss's
Mr.. Moss came to New York frequently,
putting up a, the Hotel Breslin. He was
in Chicago on June 81. and from that city
sent a letter TO Manager George T. Stock
ham Of the Breslin, saying he would he at
the hotel the following Saturday night or
Sunday morning He arrived at the
3reslin on Sunday morning. June %, and
stayed there until last Wednesday after
noon He told several acquaintance at
the hotel that he was leaving for England
Thursday morning on the Celtic. On
Wednesday afternoon he paid his bill and
received three claim checks. Nos. 84e6.
di73 and SAYS, for his baggage, which had
been sent to the White Star pier. Then
he went away.
On Thursday night at 10 O'Clock Mr..
Moses coat and straw hat we're found on
the first floor Of an apartment house at
i22 West Sixty-first street. Mrs. Katherine
Schneider. who lives at ils. and takes care
Of a string of spartm' mt houses from ia
10 1872, was making her u when she
found the black double breasted coat and
the hat lying near the head Of the first
fight of stairs
Mrs. Schneider found a leather wallet
in the inside breast pocket of the coat and
a bundle of letters and private papers. In
the wallet was a first class passage ticket
for the Celtic for which MIR. Moss had paid
500 on June 1 in Toronto. II specified
that he was 10 sail on Thursday, Jun n.
She found also the three baggage claim
checks issued by the Breslin, and this the
police take To indicate that MIR. Moss hadn't
appeared at the dock to get his belongings
aboard the ship. The steamer ticket
showed that MIR. Moss had engaged berth
. in room 1877.
Among the papers was a copy Of a con-
tract made by Sidney Moss with George
B.. Richie. president OF the Canadian Ak
minster Company, Limited, engaging him.
self to represent the house on S per cent.
commission. Other business papers and
letters indicated that MIR. Moss worked
for woollen and carpet houses in Ottawa,
Toronto and New England towns.
There were a number OF letters from
friends of Moss in various parts OF the
country. One written from Toronto on
June "a and signed Sister" closed with this:
-Im cable you when I get my $500 a month
alimony or shoot any indian You can
come to the funeral Another letter from
Sister" referred to a meeting just before
Moss left Toronto. There was a letter in the
bundle from Miss Lillian Montgomery OF
Chicago. Most Of the letters were plain
business communications from George b.
Richie and others advising Moss al to work
and asking for information as to sales made.
There we're two tintype pictures OF Moss
and a pretty girl, taken at Coney Island.
Mr.. Suockham said, recently.
The straw hat. which was new. had the
initials -. II. M in gold letters pasted
inside tho crown. Mrs. SCHNEIDER found
it lying on top Of the coat. No money was
found in the pocketbook.
Between IL and IL o'cl ock Thursday
night. hardly more han an hour after
she had picked up the coat and hat, a po-
iceman. John Toomey Of the West Sixty
eighth street station. raped on Mrs.
Schmelzer's door and asked her IL she had
Nj 4 coat containing papers, Toomey
said, according to Mrs. Schneider. that he
had got a telephone message from his
station house asking him to investigate
the matter. He looked through the papers
and remarked. says Mrs. Schneider, that
he guessed he wouldn't report the matter,
as it would result in detectives coming
sroshd and bothering her.
He didn't. and the station house didn't
hear Of the find until yesterday. Capt.
Halpin quizzed Toomey last night. He
admitted he had gon to the house but
said a woman along the block had told him
Mrs. Schneider had found valuables in a
coat. Capt. Halpin said no order had gone
out TO Toomey from the station house.
Manager Stockbam said last night that
the police must rave known something
before yesterday. because two Central Of
flee men appeared at the hotel yesterday
morning and inquired for a MIR. Moss.
They were told that he had left the hotel,
asked a few questions and departed without
saying what they were after. Mr.. Stock
ham said he couldn't understand what
had happened, "a Moss had said positively
he had TO sail on Thursday morning on the
Celtic, as he had important business en-
sagements in London. Mr.. Richie had
given him a card Of introduction to a Mr..
Frank Buckley. a manufacturers in Lon
ion. and notes in two little memorandum
books found in the coat pockets showed
that Moss had engagements with several
other London and Liverpool business men.
Detective Dcvanney vent through the
apartment house at I22 West Sixty first
street. but nobody seemed TO have seen
Mr.. Moss there. Devanney wanted par
ticularly To zee two women who occupy