The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1911-02-02
PROMINENT MAN DISAPPEARS.

jumped From Seaboard Train Near
Shelby and is Probably Rowing I'm
the Woods-An Atlanta Cotton
Broker and Club Man-His Mind
- Impaired.
Shelby, NJ c., Jan. 31.-Telemon
Smith Cuyler, a prominent Atlanta
cotton broker, whose mind is said to
be impaired because of recent finan-
cial reverses, disappeared from
train between Rutherfordton and
Charlotte this morning and has thus
far succeeded in eluding the officers
of a half-dozen counties who are try
ing to locate him. Judge e. G. Clonz,
his Atlanta attorney, is conducting
the search.
- Cuyler, it is understood, wired
Judge Clonz from Washington to
meet him in Shelby; that he was in
legal trouble. The broker arrived at
Kings Mountain on Southern train
No. 35 Sunday night and leaped from
the train there while it was moving,
= sustaining some injury. Local Of
5 ficers arrested him as suspicious
character. He put up $4,000 in
i Rock Island Railroad bonds as Sc
= curity, borrowed suit of clothes
from local attorney, drove to Shell
+, by and caught a train for Ruther-
fordton, where he entered a hospital.
He is credited with the statement
that detectives were on his trail and
& If they caught him and attached his
bonds he would be a paupef. 1ftF
bsgZsi Disappears From Train.
Sheriff wilkins, on wire advices
from Atlanta, Ca, last night, located
: lCuyler in the Rutherfordton Hospital
and journeyed there with Attorney
McMillin,, with whom the bonds had
been left. to restore the. bonds and
effect Cuyler's release. The three
boarded the train this morning, Guy
Ter having ticket for Charlotte.
Near Bostio, the connection of the
Carolina, Clinchfield and Ohio Rail
road Cuyler disappeared mysterious
e.ly from the train Judge aClonz, who
arrived here from Atlanta later, en-
gagged an automobile and started in
search OF the missing man without
result.
Cuyler belongs to a wealthy At.
lanta family, and is a prominent cot
ton broker there. Three months age
he returned from trip abroad, and
his wife is said to be still in Paris
The nature of his business troubles
If he had any, are not known here
though it is rumored that he has re
: Gently lost heavily He had severa
hundred dollars in cash on his per
son in addition to the bonds. s,..see.s
-aa~ But for the secrecy maintained a.
ito the mans identity probably mucl
sof the present, trouble could hav,
been avoided and Cuyler by this tim,
restored to his friends. So
- Atlanta, Ca, Jan. 31.-At Mr.
Cuyler's home here to-day no alarm
was expressed over the report Of hi
disappearance. His mother, Mrs
Henry Hunt Smith, said her son wa
a. great traveller and may have lief
the train on a sudden impulse. -
Officials of the Southern Railwa,
train, from which Cuyler disappeare'
: last, Sunday say he left all hissper
asonaI effects onethe train. His pecu
liar actions, it is said, attracts
marked attention from his fellow
: passengers and his Disappearance
was quickly noted. Isss..sszk -
Cuyler for years has been one o
ssAtlanta's most spectacular citizens
He changed his name from Telemal
Cuyler Smith to Telemon Smith Guy
ler some years ago. He is wealthy
a lover OF fine arts and an author O
more or less fan1e.t He is membe
of several prominent clubs in Lon
don, Paris, New York, and Atlanta