The daily sentinel., 1908-08-08
A STRANGE
DISAPPEARANCE
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quired if the younger man had re-
turned there during the day, stating 3
that the young man had left his
room suddenly during the night. He
was told that the young man had not
returned.
The older man was then ques-
toned pretty closely by the land
lady, but he acted as though he re-
sented the questions. He stated that
he had been out during the day try
ing to locate the young man, and had
been driving with the ich-Hutchin-
son people. He left the rooming
house.
Sheriff Schrader was called up by
the rooming house people and told
of the older mans visit, and that he
I had been out with the Rich-Hutch-
inson people.
Sheriff Schrader went at once to
the realty Office, and just as he ar
rived there the older man came up
and was introduced to the sheriff, and
at once told very straightforward
story.
The uncle stated that, in coming
over to Grand Junction with his
nephew from Pueblo. the young man
kept remarking that certain men
were after him and were trying to
| fight him. He accused several men
ON the train of acting that way to-
ward him. The uncle said he thought
but little of the young mans re-
marks. believing that the high alti-
tude had made him nervous and was
causing him to worry unduly. He
said that the young man did not rest
well the first night spent here, but
kept insisting that certain men were
trying to fight HIM. The uncle said
al "a fhpV n
and rooming house the nephew acted
very queerly.
After they went to their room, the
young man kept insisting that men
who wanted to fight him were trying
to get into the room. The young
man, according to the uncle's story,
did not go to sleep, but kept crying
out occasionally about some unseen
enemy. He stated that during the
night the young mans nose began
to bleed freely and bled great deal.
and thus he accounted for the blood
in the slopjar, the bloody towel and
the blood on the window sill. He
said the nephew finally said that
some men were peering into the tran
som and got up and pinned the bloody
towel over the tranSom. All during
the night he would strike matches
suddenly in an effort to locate some
imagined and unseen enemy in the
room.
The young man would imagine
that some enemies had their hands
through the transom and he would
strike the facings of the transom,
hitting these would-be assailants'
hands. The young man had a re-
volver and he would use this in
pounding the unseen hands.
The uncle said that this state of
affairs kept up all night until about
am, when suddenly the young
fellow lifted out the screen, quickly
lowered himself to the ledge of a
first-story window and then jumped
to the ground, sped around the house
and disappeared. The uncle rushed
out into the hall, down stairs and
pursued his nephew, but the latter
had gotten out of sight.
The uncle said he did not return
to the rooming house. but all day
kept up the search for his nephew.
and was greatly worried over the
boys strange actions. The uncle
went to the Rich-Hutchinson office
during the day, told the people there
of his nephew's strange disappear-
ance. During the afternoon he had
been out in the country in the real
ty company's carriage searching in
vain for the young man.
1t was a straight story the uncle
told to the sheriff, and the story of
his search for the young man was
confirmed by the realty men.
However, Sheriff Schrader thought
it best to retain the uncle in his GUS
tody to await developments. Il
While they were still talking to-
gether. who should appear on the |
scene but the missing nephew, who |
it was feared by some people had |
been the victim of foul crime, The
uncle, who had searched long and |
diligently for his kinsman. was GER
tainly greatly relieved when the boy
appeared, and he was also saved
from being held in custody under
grave suspicion.
The appearance of the young man |
was most timely, and pretty soon the
mystery surrounding his sudden |
dropping out of sight was cleared up
completely.
When asked where he had been all !
day. the nephew declared that "those |
fellows were after me so hard in that |
room that l had to leave, and so
jumped out of the window and ran
to the country"
He then told strange story of
meeting an old friend, prominent
citizen of an Oklahoma town, out in
the country, and said he spent most
of the day with him. He stated that
this friend (who is not. and never
has been a resident of this valley)
certainly had a fine orchard; but de-
clared that he had to fight his friend
until he wore him out in order to
get in the orchard. He then told a
story of outrunning his friend and