The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-05-20
Missing Hardware Merchant After
Two Years Absence Drops
Into Kenosha Saturday
GREETs FRIENDS On TRAIN
Missing Man, However, is Not Open
for Interviews and is Thought to
Have Left the City as Si-
lently as he Came

Another Of the old Kenosha mys-
teries has lost it's charm as on S9tur-
day night George w. Fay, the former
Kenosha hardware dealer who left Ke-
nosha more than two years ago under
very unusual circumstances and traces
of whom had not been found since,
slipped into Kenosha. Just how long
he remained in the city is question
and efforts to find him about the city
today have been without effect and it
is supposed that after spending few
hours with friends and relatives he has
returned again to his world of mystery.
Fay came to Kenosha from Milwau-
kee ON an electric car reachingl the city
gust after eight clock Saturday even
Ing He was sitting in the car in Mil
yankee when John Ryan, a Kenosha
man, boarded the car and when Ryan
approached him and held out his hand
Fay made no effort to deny his identi-
ty, but grasped the hand with a good
deal of warmth and confded to Ryan
that he was on his way to Kenosha.
On the trip to- Kenosha Fay talked
with interest of the life he had been
leading since he left Kenosha. He
stated that he had lived time in
Eanada, later in Michigan and then in
Milwaukee. HeFmade no statement Of
the natpreaof the business in which
10 iiad BEEN engaged. It is generally
believed that1Fay is now in business
lnf milwaukee, and it is said that he
had been in Communication with rela-
tivessin aKenosha for some time paving
The wayfor his return to the city for
a visitff notsto maIEeAis home here
Tho Esystery attending the disap
pearance of George Fay has been one
OF greatest interest to the people Of
Kenosha on account of the fact that
he was prominent in the business af-
fairs of the city previous to his disap-
pearance. Fay left Kenosha on the
morning of March IL, 1907, and that
was the last seen of him in Kenosha
until he came in on the electric car
Saturday evening. For time it was
thought that Fay had either met with
foul play or accident and search was
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made for him in all parts of the state
and in surrounding states, but this
search revealed nothing. Not one word
was received from him. Months after
ward it was alleged that his attorney
here had received word from Fay and
that he was in Canada. The profitable
business which had been carried on by
Fay in Kenosha for years was placed
in the hands of receiver at the re-
quest of his wife and the court finally
granted an order to permit the sale Of
the property and the payment of the
debts of the missing man and later the
proceeds of the transaction were turned
over to Mrs. Fay. Later she secured
divorce from bed and board, but
never asked for an absolute divorce.
Serious charges were made against Fay
during the court action in the matter,
but he never made any effort to refute
the charges and he was not in court
even by an attorney when the matters
were settled up. 1t is generally be-
lieved that when Fay left Kenosha he
took considerable money with him
Fay has improved in health and he
has grown so large that many of his
old friends would fail to recognize him.
Relatives of Fay today refused to
discuss his return to Kenosha, some of
them even refusing to admit that he
had been in the city on Saturday night
or Sunday.
The district attorney was advised of
the visit of Fay to Kenosha, but he
took no interest in the matter as it is
not thought that any effort would be
made to bring any charges against Fay
even should he decide to return to Ke.
nosha to make his permanent home.