The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1911-05-23
APPEARS IN GUTHnIE AFTER
FIVE DAYS WANDERING
N
Worked Seven Days a Week
Without a Day OH In
Two Years

Thumas H. Long, twenty.four years
old victim Of oyerwork III drug
store at st. Joseph Mo-, appeared
here late yesterday after FIVE days
lheXplicable absence from home, dur.
ins which time he appears to have
rambled from town to town without
beng conscious of his surroundings.
This evening he will start for SC.
Joseph, where his young wife anal
two small children, his employer and
relatives are anxiousAy awaiting him..
ie will probably arrive at St Joseph
about s a. M, tomorrow
Long is an Intelligent young mani
0t neat appearance and eyidentl
straightforwardness He says he hasI
nc recollection oil leaving St. Joseph
or OF being anywhere until he found
himself in Oklahoma city yesterday
with less than ST. He thinks he hadI
$50 the day he left home In Oklaho-
ma CITY the firrt thinti after awaken
ing he did was to buy a ST.. Joseph
paper, and 1t contained long ac.
count of his sensational disappear
aree and the grief and terror Of his
wife. He took the first train out,
realizing that he must secure some
money before he could get home HI
still had somewhat dazed appear
ance when he came here and about
4 o'clock he was acc0stea by the no.
Ice, His story was told and d tele
& am was sent to the p0lfcedepart
ment or st. Joseph.
The young man spent the night lnI
the quarters Of Night Chief Kyle up
town. He had good sleep and was
today in pretty fair condition, ali
though suffering FROM Iassitude and
depression He said today he had
not had day Off for two years Hisl
was a seven day job at s28 week
The st. Joseph paper Indicated that
he did not return 10 tho store aftefl
he left for dinner al 6aV Wednes
day
The St. Joseph paper SAYS
Case A Pathetic One
. The case Ii particularly pathetic
one Long has wife, two years hisl
Junior To whom he was married
three years ago. and they have twoI
babies, oec boy lc8s than tWoE
yeads old just beginning IL talk, and
an infant, seven weeks old Mrs |
long was almost hystefical today
and her bl0odghot eyes told story
of long hours spent in anxious watch.
Ing for the husband and father
Through her tears she told News
Press reporter that She could gipeI
20 explanation of her husbands V disl
and when she beseeched
tho newspaped man 10 aid her In find
ing Long. the little boy began toE
cfy want papa To tnm home
Long has not been feeling veil resi-
Gently. his wife said, and something
appeared to be worrying him Wed
resiaH evening SHE urged dim To telli
her what was on his mind, but he re
faaed and became angry, AiialtY piek
ing up his hat and leaving the hoase
BbOnt o'clock. without even saying
After spending the nisht
ln sailing fog hlm % reiAFD thal
Police were notified cl this disappear.
aHce
II IL said that Long does not drink
and bis aHaiAa are said "a be IN a
condition The family
home is furnished Yerg comfortably
aud Mrs Long said they have some
money III the bank. unless har nus.
band had draws Il out
Faith In HUsbank
Y cannot think he has gone agd
ieit me for good. Bhe said i DON II
know what / should 40 Il he hug Hal
aidn't leave me cent nf uunag. aud
! can't { ges what he has iii the bank
Surely he must have bsen taken sekl
and IN suffering EroIn deiidun
Possibly he needs h.A, ana ii | eania
only find 0ut where bal II and tAat
at IN all right | would he ID happy
The disappearance Of Long IN tnal
mast peculiar thing ! eyed heafd of,
said Eugene Seper. eBploYeg 0f thel
HissEna man, to-day There III not
ihe slightest reason fec hia doing sHehI
a Thing that knogf os He #as 0n8l
oi tBe beat prosecutions druggista En
the city. Nj good habits, M TAR nv 81
kHoW ! have thought stilce that Hei
might have been arranging t0 leave
Wednesday night for, during the day
Nc compounded ~ ~ wcAielne
trat We keep III stock. seemingly tot
caase ns an little Inconvenience "a