Goldsboro weekly argus., 1909-01-14
Came Here Last Night On
/. Southern at $3.50 to Meet
a Business Appointment
Fails to Meet II And Has
Not Been Seen.
Was SECRETARY and TREASURER OF
SELMA COTTON MILL.
His Legal Documents and Valuable
Papers Found Today In Acme Fuel
Yards. Police Investigating.
From Saturdays Daily.

Mr.. Thos. T. Canler, secretary and
treasurer Of the Selma Cetton Mill. has
strangely disappeared and deep mys-
terry surrounds the case, which at this
hour is the all-absorbing topic in this
city, where he was last seen last night
only for moment, as he got off the
train fr ON Selma, at $50 o'clock, and
not since by any one who knows him.
Mr.. Canler recently purchased the
business OF the Acme Fuel Company
in this city, as side line, and after
putting Mr.. Wells in charge, return
ed to Selma. By appointment with MIR.
Wells he came down here last night,
telling his stenographer in his Selma
Office that he would return on the next
train. leaving here at 10 o'olotk last
| night. He did not meet Mr.. Wells
here, and although the latter diligent-
ly looked for him he was no where to
be found, and neither did he return to
| Selma on the outgoing 10 ocloek train.
On enquiring at the hotel Mr.. Wells
was told by gentleman who came
down on the train with Mr.. Canler
| from Selma, that the latter surely came
down and got off the train imm ediately
behind him. This is all that Mr.. Wells
could learn, as few here-and no one
else whom Mr.. Wells enquired ofknow
Mr.. Canler.
What became OF Mr.. Canler is now a
deep mystery. About O'Clock this
-;
intense and exciting by the finding,
| just over the high fence of the Acme
Fuel yard, slightly scattered, as if
dropped from the top OF the fence or
pitched over it, q lot of letters, checks,
bank book, and other papers, belong
| ing to Mr.. Canler, and which he must
| have had on his person last night, for
one of the letters was received by him
in Selma yerterday from Mfr. Wells.
These papers were found first by
cart driver, and called to the atten-
tion OF Mr.. Wells on the yard, who as
soon as he examined them, at once
OWNED that they pointed to a myster-
iOus disappearance, reverting to the
/ fact that he had failed to find Mr.
Canler last night, and he at once phon-
| ed to Selma, to the cotton mill presi-
dent, Mr.. Edgerton, only to learn from
him that Mr.. Canler was not there
that he had been expected to return
from GoldsborO last night, but had not
done so. Then Selma got busy, and
president Edgerton, of the Cotton Mill,
and president M. G. Winston, of the
Selma Bank, an uncle by marriage of
Mr.. Canler, came at once to this city,
arriving here at $3.50 this afternoon,
and at this hour are busy investi-
eating, with the assistance of the po-
lice.
Asked for a statement, they both ex-
pressed the highest confidence in Mr.
Canler's integrity, but at the same
time stated emphatically that they have
no thought that he has been fouly made
away with. They have had no time to
Investigate his accounts, and can there
fore only base their statement on their
hitherto confidence in the man; and at
ter Investigating the papers, checks,
drafts and bank book, found here,they
declined to express any conclusions
formed.
The facts all point, however, to vol