The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-04-11
YOUNG BANK CLERK
MYSTER|OUSLY
MISSING
Crombie Munro Disappears From
Rooming House Only Partially
Dressed and Carrying Razor; Gone
Suddenly Insane Friends Fear.
Father Is in Asylum and Elder
Brother Also Lost Reason While
On Visit To Parent.

Just two months after he had seen
his elder brother become a raving
maniac, while visiting his father in
Toronto asylum for the insane,
Crombie Munro, 24.year-old bank
clerk. disappeared from mis- room at
No. 315 Cass-ave., Friday afternoon,
taking with him a bathing suit and a
razor. He is believed 20 have become
mentally unbalanced.
Munro. who was regarded as one OF
the most promising young men in the
First National bank, and later, in the
National Bank OF Commerce, where he
was employed at the time of his dis
appearance Is son OF the Rev.
George Munro, an inmate of the To-
ronto asylum, 10 which he was com
mitted following his tragic mental
breakdown while working as a mis-
sionary in the districts devastated by
tine Galveston food Relatives believe
that the mental troubles OF the broth
ers is partly traceable TO marriage
between cousins, the parents being
Instantly related
Crombie Munro came here about a
a
career for himself, after his father
had been taken TO the Toronto retreat.
OF high-strung, nervous tempera-
ment, he was a fast accurate work
man in the banks Business, and won
the esteem OF his employers in the
First National.
He was an enthusiast over physical
exercise, and was a constant attend
ant at the Y NJ. c. A. gymnasium. His
diet, too, was fad with him. About
five months ago, he suddenly gave up
his position in the First National
bank, and told his relatives he was
going TO study medicine, starting in
as orderly in Grace hospital
Changing his mind, he went TO
North Tonawanda, n. Y. where his
brothers, John and Duncan, were liv-
ing. and with Duncan, went 10 visit
his father In Toronto asylum. While
there Duncan became violently in
sane, and was placed in confinement
in the institution. Crombie visited for
a while with his mother, Mrs. Anna
Munro, in Toronto and then came
back to Detroit. and entered the en-
ploy Of the National Bank of Com
fnercsr.' Z.
Z Thursday afternoon tic appeared in
the residence of his uncle. Col Will A.
Waite, No. Sc Delaware-aye., and an
nounced that he had quit his Job, and
had again decided to be an orderly in
a hospital
Col Waite took him back to his
rooming house and none of his rela-
tives has seen him since.
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house later told his relatives that he
left her house, Friday afternoon,
dressed in light summer trousers and
vest, and in his shirt sleeves. She
was of the impression that he had re-
turned, later, until Saturday morning,
she investigated, and found that his
bed was untouched. An uncle, a min
lister in nearby town. was notified,
and he learned that Crombie had talk
en- his razor and bathing suit. Mrs.
Munro was called here from Toronto,
and is STAYING in the Waite home, in
tho hope OF getting some tidings from
the young man.
The Rev George Munro's insanity
IS blamed TO Overwork in the flooded
district of Texas, where he laborel
for years. without a vacation, trying
to reconstruct church properties, and
minister TO the congregations. whose
had been thinned by the
food
Duncan Munro, who became insane
while visiting his father, with Crom-
bic, just two months ago, held a re-
sponsible position in a freight office in
Tonowanda, when he went away with
Crombie. Another brother. John. IL
by a lumber firm in Tona-
wanda.
II is stated AT the bank that the
mans accounts are absolutely
correct. He was regarded as a very
efficient clerk.