Evening star., 1909-05-28
MISSING ENGINEER WRITES
LETTER "FoR ANNA" SUGGESTS
he HAS FORGOTTEN NAME.
Rambling Epistle Postmarked Seat.
tie, Wash, Indicates Man Has
Lost Recollection Of Identity.

NEW YORK. May 2s.-The first clue
to the whereabouts of Frank S. Curtis.
the engineer. since his disappear
| ance from the Wayne Hotel in Detroit
April q while bound for Mackinaw.
Mich. on a railroad venture. is contained
in letter which was received yesterday
morning by his wife at her home. No. 4S
Burnside avenue. Crawford. n. j.
The envelope was postmarked Seattle,
Wash. May %. and is directed to his
home in New Jersey with the words For
Anna" in a lower corner. evidencing the
fact that he does not remember his name.
which doubtless explains the condition of
his mind and the cause for his present
situation.
The Fifth Day.
1.-The fifth day is the only date line
on the letter, which is as follows:
why did you send me here? But.
never mind, never mind I shall see you
In two days more. / have 1t all fixed I
have studied 1t all out. Johnny and I
have Vt all studied out. ! will get the
best of them yet.
But why have you insisted on keeping
me when you promised? But not word
mot q word.
IT am alone with these people. who
watch me so. I am so lonesome. so tired.
one to cut them.
"Forty-eight hours-forty- EIGHT hours.
But it was cruel-it was cruel to send me
up here. What have I done? Was I very
bad? I don't remember. / can't tell what
1t all was, but she will tell me when get
back.
Il know what I am going to do. I'll
fix them. All figured out. Ha. ha.
Won't there be big laugh. Forty-eisht
hours only.
Don't ever let me go again. oh. am
coming. Wait little while. I'll soon be
there.
come to me and bring me back home.
"Your boy calls"
Band Program and Flowers.
Inclosed with the letter was a pro-
gram Of the Band Concert Of the 18th
Infantry Band May 3. between : and 5
o'clock. Godfrey Buglione. director" and
with this small card were intertwinsd
bits of fern and sweet peas. pressed fat
When Mrs. Curtis had read the let
ter she hurried over to the home OF
a married sister of Curtis at No. 10
Manhattan avenue. this city. and to-
gether they went over the communica-
ton, hoping to md some clue to the
mans present address, which might have
escaped his wife in her hurried, anxious
examination.
The only further detail discovered-and
one which Is very important-was the
name Of the stationer who probably sold
Curtis the envelope. Under the nap 20.
p Mooney. Seattle" is embossed
Curtis sister said:
THE letter, ! am convinced, explains
why we were unable to find the man
named Grannis. who was supposed to
have gone away with my brother"
Went Away Alone.
/ Grannis was a prosperous mining man
of Virginia. Curtis was well known as
a railroad draughtsman. having been con-
nected with the New York Central. for
whom he laid out the big yards at the
Grand Central depot.
way In Virginia. sought him. Little
progress was made because of lack or
funds.
When Curtis left his home April rs
he told his wife that Grannis had again
come to him with the news that he had
raised money to build the line and had
asked Curtis to accompany him to Mack
inaw, from where they were to go TO
Sault Ste. Marie to purchase rails.
In Curtis rooms at the Wayne HoteI
that Grannis had been taken Ill on the
train at Buffalo the first night out. and
that Grannis had been carried to the
home OF his sister in that city.
time before he went away and discussed
their association Of ten years ago., con-
tinued his sister. land was seized with
the hallucination that Grannis was going
to build the road. l now believe tnat
Mr.. Curtis went away alone:
That belief is strengthened by the fact
that my other brother. Willis. went to
Buffalo and spent nearly q week tryins
to find the Virginian. The train en-
= passenxer were to be taken Ill from
a train at midnight. and they told willis
that they remembered no such occur