Arizona republican., 1909-05-17
MYSTERY ATTENDS
 BROWNS DEPARTURE PHOENIX BROKER DROPPED OUT OF SIGHT SATURDAY NIGHT. Flight From the City, Suicide or Pos
 sibIy Both Suggested By His Actions.

r D. Brown, one of the promoters of the Arizona Consolidated Mines company's enterprises at Bouse, and partner in the firm of R R. Brogan (S Co, the new Phoenix brokerage house on Center street. disappeared quite mysteriously Saturday night. His friends are now hesitating between two theories of which one is suicide and the other is jumping the town" and there seems to be no good reason why he should have followed either course. unless he had some grave wor- " his friends knew nothing about.
 MT Brogan knows but little of his partners former career save what he has volunteered as their acquaintance began only recently and not long be- fore they embarked in business to- gether. The condition of their mutual business is not one that should occa- sion Mir. Brown any worry for there is nothing in it that affects the cheerful ness of MT. Brogan who says there is no irregularity that he knows of and the only thing he can possibly think of is a few tricial debts that Mir. Brown may have acquired during the equipment of their office.
 It has appeared however that MT. Brown has been worrying considerably of late, this conclusion being reached merely from his demeanor and the knowledge that Mrs. Brown has been in ill health has thus far been ascribed as the reason of it. Mir. and Mrs. Brown have been occupying rooms in the residence of Thomas Miller. S74 North Fourth avenue. On Friday Mir Brown sent his wife to Los Angeles. it was understood to enter a hospital, he having borrowed a small amount of money for that purpose. Friday and Saturday he was at his place of busi- ness as usual.
 Saturday night about II o'clock Mir. Brown called on P F. Brown, at his room in the Hotel Adams. the two be- ing no relation and having only recent ly formed the acquaintance of each other He seemed to P. F. Brown to be somewhat nervous and though he was not intoxicated the host formed the opinion that he had possibly taken a few drinks that were having some effect on him. It was only an opinion formed from his rather unusual re- marks As P. D. Brown prepared to leave he rendered P. F. Brown the keys to his office saying he might want them the next day. P. F. Brown told him he had no occasion to visit his office Sunday and the remark was so odd that he rather jocularly asked P. D. Brown if he was contemplating suicide and at the same time ran his hands over his visitors hip pockets to see if he could feel weapon Finding none the incident closed as a joke. P. D. Brown saying as he left. that he was going to Wickenburg on business.
 Sometime yesterday a hackman brought to P. F. Brown an envelope that he said P D. Brown had handed him on the sidewalk sometime during Saturday night and asked him to de- liver Sunday. Within it were the keys to P D. Browns office and the following note: Remember me as you saw me last Keys to office. P. D. B.
 Recalling the incidents of the night before P. F. Brown at once feared P D. Brown had committed suicide and immediately went to the latter's office and looked all over it but could find nothing unusual in the appearance of things, and certainly no corpse in evi- dence. Soon afterward he met Mir Brogan and told him what had been going on as near as he knew and Mir Brogan informed him that when he had gone in the office in the morning