Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-19
Good People of Home Town
Wink Significantly When
Subject is Mentioned
Friends of the Supposed Dead Man
Who Has Criminal Record in This
County, Think if Truth Were Known
Wheeler Could Be Found Alive and
Well.

Eastern papers express grave
doubts, based on statements
made by friends of Rev. DR..
A. j. Wheeler as to the suicide
of DR.. Wheeler, who was supposed to
have jumped from the steamer Hart
ford into the waters of Long Island
Sound. near Essex. Conn, on January
6. Wheeler is believed by many to be
alive and we'll. and now In
Brooklyn, N Y. Other reasons
for his disappearance are suggested
and especially in view of the fact that
the devil of debt which Wheeler
wrote haunted him, had been overcome
in numerous ways at other periods in
his life.
DIR. Wheeler is the man who de-
frauded Mrs. Caroline Strain and
husband, Samuel Strain, of LeGrand
out of $1,000, which he pretended to
invest for them in a mythical Omaha
cancer cure concern, the Ovona Com
pany
The Mirror Record. of Stamford. n.
Y. quotes from the Middletown Times
Press as follows. in reference to the
supposed suicide Of Dr. Wheeler:
Did A. Wheeler. manager of the
cancer sanatorium at Cornwall on the
Hudson. jump into the icy waters Of
the sound, from the steamboat Hart
ford on the night of January 6, or
was his suicide bluff to evade his
creditors?
That is the question that is agitat
ing the good people of Cornwall, and
while so far as is known, there is no
real reason for believing that he did
not carry out his avowed intentions of
are in Cornwall who wink knowingly
when the subject is mentioned and
smile the smile of the incredulous.
Notwithstanding the strong circum-
stantial evidence of his self-effacement,
there are many people who knew him
we'll in Cornwall, who expressed the
belief that he was too bright, shreWd
and sharp to resort to such a desperate
method of escape from the importun-
tiles of his creditors. They point out
that he had been in financial trouble
before in Sullivan county, and had
worked out of it all right. Those people
are positive that the spectacular set
tings which accompanied the suicide
We're arranged for effect and that the
whole business is a bluff to stave off
creditors.
"Opinion is divided. however. many
accepting the story as true. 1t is the
supposition that the stockholders of
the Wheeler Method Cure, Incorporate
ed propriators of the sanatorium,
were dissatisfied with the results on
their investment and were pressing
This it is s aid, he was trying to do,
but he had not secured the aid he eN-
pected.
&C. l.. Andrus. president of the COM
pany, is highly respected resident of
Stamford, N. Y. He is president
of the National Bank of Stamford, and
is entirely responsible financially. The
directors are to meet this week or
next, and it is expected the affairs Of
the company will then be wound up
and all outstanding debts liquidated.
The company is incorporated for $2O,-
900, but how much of the capital has
been paid in is not known.
"A runlor that Mrs. Wheeler has
disappeared is unfounded. She is still
in Cornwall, but will probably soon go
to live with DR.. Wheeler's people over
east There are three daughters, the
Oldest of whom is about II"
THE Roscoe Review says resident
of Cornwall on- Hudson informs the
Review that the almost unanimous
sentiment in that place is that Wheeler
is alive and is now in Brooklyn. They
do not believe that his disappearance
was due to financial troubles, altho he
left many unpaid bills in town.
"Our informant also declares that a
citizen of his town has stated publicly
that he met Wheeler in New York
city. face to face, on the night he was
supposed to have sailed on the steam
err Hartford long after the departure
of the boat
people in this vicinity do not credit
the published story of the suicide. The
general opinion is that something more
than financial trouble is responsible
for his disappearance"
Liscensed to Wed.
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