New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1908-10-12
MISSING BARONET
Appeal to Canadian authorities Re
taues KIondike Mystery.
ccupyrisht. 1905. by the brentwood Company,


one Of those dramas which furnish the romance
r. SO many Of the houses of the Old World arts
tocracy IS said 10 lie at the back of the demand
which has Just been made upon the provincial
,horities Of British Columbia resume. after the
,spse Of years the investigation into the mys-
,ery surrounding the disappearance of Sir Arthur
Curtis third baronet OF his line. who vanished
a. Tune 1895 with an Indian guide while on his
,rsr from Ashcroft. the Canadian Pacific Rail
road TO the Klondike Six months later Lady
curtis applied 10 the courts in London for leave
~ rresurne her husband dead and. although
se1nite evidence was ever produced that he was
-ssIlv dead beyond the fact that he had wandered
swav from his companions and had disappeared
4-,r, view without leaving any trace. the decree
vas granted. and not long afterward Lady Curtis
z.bose only boy. Roger had thus become fourth
bsronet married Colonel Robert NJ Brady. of
Rurrana. Donegal nephew and heir to the bar
onet,v Of Sir Francis Brady. and by whom she
has several children
The Young baronet came Of age a couple of years
ego and is reason 10 believe that he is just
IS little satisfied are other people Of the fact
that his father is really dead. He is not living
with his mother or stepfather but is understood
20 be on this side of the Atlantic. and 1t is
srned by many that # is he who is the relative
who has urged the British Columbia authorities
resume the investigation The only other remain
ing member Of this house Of Curtis is his grand
uncle Septirlus Curtis, nearly ninety years OF
age and who is at home in England
The expedition with which Sir Arthur Curtis was
travelling when he disappeared was commanded by
ROGER Pocock founder Of the Legion Of Frontiers
man and in his book entitled The Frontiersman"
published q couple OF years ago by Gay & Hancock.
IN London. he devotes a chapter this episode
.n his life He speaks very highly Of Sir Arthur
Curtis. whom he refers TO under the initial &C.
and relates how he, being out OF sorts. spoke
roughly and brutaly TO Curtis without any reason
Taking all the blame upon himself. Pocock de-
clares in his book that he gave uterance TO words
.hs- could never be withdrawn forgiven. and
that during the same night Sir Arthur wandered
away into the woods and never seen again He
-elsres that for ten days he and his party sought
ST. arthur without finding any clew, and that
then their provisions having run out, they were
obliged 10 abandon the hopeless quest Pocock de-
sr-fhes in his book how he had considerable dif-
fculty in disposing OF the ugly rumors that he
had murdered Curtis. although he certainly did re-
gard himself as morally responsible for his death
s1d brings the chapter 20 a conclusion by REFER
ring 10 reports that Sir Arthur had subsequently
been seen alive in England. He likewise adds
that he knows nothing positive Of the body Of the
missing baronet ever having been found
Another member of the expedition-G- W Cole
e veteran miner. likewise expressed the convlcuoh
in the press Of Vancouver and elsewhere IN Can
eds that the baronet was not dead. He declared
that he had heard Sir Arthur say that he meant
70 slip away from the expedition. and claims mat
Curtis told him that when he got to the klondike
ne would change his name G. w Cole added
III Indian guide TO be lost in the country beyond
Mud River where Sir Arthur vanished
one is tempted to ask what motives can have
r-ornpted the relative OF the missing beronet 10
ascertain whether he is still alive For II that
cold be esta blished his wifes marriage 70 Colonel
Robert NJ Brady would become ipso facto invalid
and the children born OF the union ilegttimate
The object therefore is scarcely that can be
considered as altogether friendly TO Lady Curtis
II il said that n the remote regions OF North
western Canada are to he found to-day the clews
70 MAN. dsappearances. mysteriously as that OF
Sir Arthur Curtis Of bearing well known
names once prominent in English life who have in
consequence Of financial troubles. Of some
fortunate romance some sc-ape OF one kind or
another preferred TO disappear. starting alto
gether new existence in the New World. completely
obiterating their past Long is the list Of
who have thus vanished among the best known
cases being those OF Sir Roger Tichborne. Of the
elder brother Of the present Earl of Aberdeen.
vTcerov Of Ireland, and Of the ex-Duke John of
Austria
Only in a few Instances have people who have
thus vanished reappeared upon the scene James
Burke Roche, for instance. next brother and heir
q Lord Fernnoy and father Of Mrs. Arthur Scott
Burden Of New York. lost. like Sir Arthur
Curtis in Klondike. while the way from
The Canadian Pacific Railroad TO the Klondike gold
feds His companions. after searching for him
for several days. found a skeleton. which they,
rashv assuming be his. bore with much difficulty
the town inferred It IN the local cemetery
and sci ur7 a tombstone which n long list Of
virtues attributed to him Roche, who hap
pened along in fun life some weeks later saw the
tombstone. caused IT 10 ne photographed and now
carries about It's picture in his pocketbook as a
post-morten testimonial Of his excellent character