The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-01-16
ny JOHN ELrnETH WATKINS.


If he has done nothing else. Dr
Cook has yet performed the most re-.
rllarkable disappearing feat Of our gem
Grafton. His ability to break through
Gordon Of New York reporters ana
drop, for such n period. completely out
of human ken AT a time when Iia was
dent himself, and Just wien the minds
eye of the entire Giviiized world was
holding very vivid image Of his fea-
lures. has been u feat almost rs won
derfnl az would have been his much
brasged-of discovery OF the "borcaI
centre"
Our last previous mystery of disap-
unsolved---was that or Leon Ling. the
Chinaman, who IS alleged to have MUIR
dcred the. unfortunate Elsie SiGel.
granddaughter OF Major-Gcncral Franz
into the trunk wherein 1t was found
last summer In room over "A New Yorl.
chop sucy house. II has now been
more than seven months since this Or!-
fact that his photograph and GoL'pletc
description have been published broad
cast in the newspapers and ,,l are IN thc
hands OF cvory police Official In the
sight OF man remains as complete. 20
though the world had swallowed him
UP. But Leon Ling had I. running
start soma days before the public be-
physiognomy, and his detection w7s
rendered unusually difficult by the ina
bility OF our race to readily distih.
Euisli ono Oriental of a given type from
another.
II we should attempt TO recall all of
the mysterious disappearances OF the
past year we would soon have several
left for tho really remarkable cases OF
other years. !. ! read the other day that
In year over 5000 people had been
only half OF them. or 1880. had been
accounted for. and 1t Is not UNSAFE TO
say that like proportion OF New
York's population is annually lost to
sight within the span OF twelve
+. Lost Grand Duke Here:
The most looked for OF all OF INC
noted disappearers OF past years s,n Is ,ne
who. after falling into dislaSor a.
court by contracting rnorganatic mar
riagc with Ludmiila stubel. pretty
Viennese comic opera sihs ser ms ,nsisss
Early that year he bought In England
q big ship, the santa MarEnrita, ~.
which he and his beloved sailed AVA
as plain MIR, and 4rs. John o birth.
touched at Montcyideo. and July ~
sailed thence for Chile. This, depar.
ture from Montevideo was ths ia az
authentic news the world has nad Q.
the mysterious pair. Some skippera
OF the south Seas believe that the
Santa Margarita was wrecked Wnile
trying TO round the Horn; WINE see oa" her
rented and sailing under. announcer haihe
a former soldier under the n ,,S i.a,,,
has confessed" TO having met lne cou-
cepted 4 bribc to Keep silcn, az to the
meeting while various other authorl.
Hes have ..identifcd" Johann Salvador
as Admiral Yamagata, nero OF tuc
Chino Japanese War: as thc com
manaer OF troops in the Chilean revo-
tuition OF the carly nineties. as
ranchman in Argentina and as INC
leader Of a New Thought sect IN
In juno. 1907, he was "positiveIs
seen. in London. while las, su,l..,.s :. :,
his mystery was "solved" by. a Chlcaso .
newspaper which devoted tns .,,;,,i.,
front page to the story Of macli l,,I,s
working in a shop at Pa!neviile. ono.
who .contcssed' that he was tue iosl
grand duke. and that he mad GU,lly "
America after his beloved Ludnlil1a ,. mad
been Killed by the eruption M ,..
Pelee. Wherever Johann $500 ~ Arstria
be. his cousin, Franz Joseph OF .Hus ~
believes him to DO still aliVe. ne iasts
iw'iss,Ied an edict that the large estate IA.
Which awaits the runaway IN austria
be held intact until lsli.
- ,r,..o yantshcd Naval Officers.
5.rhe mysterious disappearance OF Two
=, nmr naval oficers troubled the pub
Tic FOR three years prior to the vanish
Ing OF tho archduke. February q. !.
iSS7 lieutenant Edward NJ. Remey, =
brother of former Judge Advocate q, Zen :;
erai William B. Remey ana OF h ',.a.,
.an,,raI George G, Rcmey, walked
down the gang plank OF the steamship : ?
HnamnkeS to bc swallowed into the
Macs OF New York City and never
heard Of more. Had he been man o.
irreg ular HABITS there might nave ) pG !, :
disappearance. but leEw a SOBER
4 highly esteemed and popular o1tlcef'