The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-02-04
DROP FROM SIGHT.
Geo. B. Harrison Has Been Miss
ing for a Month.
Family Fears He Is Victim Of
Foul Play.
WAS In KANSAS CITY.
Wrote Wife That He Would Go
to Garden City.
Since Then No Trace Of Him
Can Be Found.


Kansas newspaper man and son of Col.
T. W. Harrison. ex-mayor of Topeka,
Who resides at 1243 Western avenue, is
missing and his friends fear that he
has met with foul play. It has been a
month since he was last heard from.
Four weeks ago last Saturday he left
the office Of the Franklin Hudson Pub
fishing company in Kansas City after
having had a talk with Dell Keizer, the
general manager, relative to securing
a position with the company.
Since that time not a word has been
heard from him nor has he been seen
by any of his friends. Afew days prior
to this time, Mr.. Harrison
wrote his wife who lives with her
parents in this city saying that he
intended to start for Garden City, but
would probably stop off in Topeka for
day before completing the trip. He
has not been seen nor heard from
since.
Mr.. Harrison went to Garden City
about two years ago and with Henry
Allen established the Garden City Tele-
gram, a daily newspaper, though he
disposed of his interest in the publ
cation during the first year of it's
istence. His object in going to Garden
City at the time that he announced
that he would start was for the pur-
for shipment to Topeka.
Since his departure from Kansas City,
If he did leave, his whereabouts have
been as complete mystery to his
friends as though the earth had open
ed and swallowed him. His wife and
his parents are at sea as to the cause
of his sudden dropping out of sight and
have no explanation to offer as So
luton of the affair. Colonel Harrison
is not inclined to the belief that his
I'd
that he will make his whereabouts
known some time in the near future.
The mother and wife, however. do
not share in this belief and are greatly
worried at the unexplained absence OF
the son and husband, though they have
no explanation to offer which will in
any way assist in clearing the mystery.
While editor of the Evening Telegram
in Garden City, Harrison was assault
ed and badly beaten by a gambler
whose methods he had exposed
through the columns of the paper.
During this fight he was struck re-
peatedly on the face and head and his
friends fear that while suffering from
the after effects of the blows that he
may have become temporarily ire
sponsible for his actions. The man
who made the assault served Jail
sentence for his part in the affair and
his relatives fear that he may have
been waylaid by some of the interested
his body concealed.
The matter was placed in the hands
Of the Kansas City police shortly after
the disappearance of Mr.. Harrison by
Henry Bennett, his father-in-law, and
Dell Keizer and the officers have work
ed on the case secretly since that time.
Their efforts, however, have been with
out avail and not even a clue which Is
liable to throw ray of light on the
disappearance of Mr. Harrison has
haan discovered.
Every hospital in Kansas City has
been visited by Mr.. Bennett, in hopes
that if his son-in-law had met with an
accident that he had been taken to
some one Of these institutions, but this
search as have all others ended with
out a trace of the missing man being
discovered. Shortly after Mr.. Harri-
son disposed of his newspaper interests
in Garden City. his wife and children
came to Topeka and have made their
home with Mrs. Harrison's parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Bennett, since
that time.
while in Kansas City Mr.. Harrison
wrote to his wife frequently and the
tone of the letters indicate that he was
at that time cheerful and satisfied with
existing conditions. The lack of
motive for his disappearance lends color
to the theory of the possibility of foul
play, and his wife and mother fear
that he will never be seen alive again
Mr. Harrison was reared in Topeka
and attended Washburn college, though
he did not finish the college course He
has been identified with the newspapers
of the city in various capacities at in
tervals since that time. The families
of both Mr. and Mrs Harrison are
among the oldest and best known in
the city. For the past three months
Mr., Harrison has been engaged with
Secretary Coburn of the state board of
agriculture in preparing a book on the
swine industry in Kansas.
For some time past he has been out
of steady employment but had compile
ted arrangements for position in
Kansas City. He was in no sense of
the word a dissipated man and his
friends do not attempt to account for
his disappearance In this way as IS
sometimes done when the circum-
stances surrounding a mysterious dis
appearances are different than they are