The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1912-09-23
IS elimination He Dumped Suit
case and Hat in Station
AND FLED ACROSS DEPOT 50.
Suit Case and Headgear Still Remair
Unclaimed, Although the Young
Mans Performances Occurred
on Saturday Evening.

I Officers at police headquarters are con-
ducting still hunt for young man of
peculiar disposition who alighted from
the $3.50 train at the Central Vermont
station Saturday night and presently
disappeared from sight, leaving derby
hat and suit case in the middle of the
station floor. 1t is believed that tha
man who left the train when it stopped
at the station and afterwards threw at.
taehes around the ticket office into
small panic by his strange actions is
James g. Reardon of somewhere in New
Hampshire. This mudh was surmised
when the police opened the suit case
this morning and discovered letters ad
dressed to James G. Reardon in several
New Hampshire towns. None OF the let
ters was signed and the officers have
yet to find anyone who might identify
the stranger.
Reardon first attracted attention soor
after the train arrived. when he began
to run wildly about the station. mum.
bling unintelligble words to himself the
while Acting on one impulse he would
deposit his suit case and hat on the seat
and lie down apparently in sleep. In
the next moment he was flying almost
madly to the door and looking out. BY
ISLANDERS instantly gathered that the man
was laboring under delusion. but az
he molested no one he was allowed to
pursue his irrational moves uninterrupt-
ed. Towards 10 o'clock, he slammed his
suitcase and hat down in the center Of
the station and started hatless out across
Depot square. This was the last seen
of him, so far as could be learned
The police are convinced that the mar
is suffering from dementia and it j.
feared that he may commit some rasf
act before apprehended. His suitcas,
revealed suit Of clothes in good eondi
tion and a pair of shoes, besides a shaw
ing mug and several letters. The cas-
was neatly packed and nothing was dis
covered to give evidence Of disordered
mind. From the contents of several let
ters examined, the officers believe that
Reardon was employed as railroad en-,
gineer at one time or another. Letters
retained at police headquarters were re.
ceived by Reardon in Francestown, Reeds
Ferry and Antrim, N. II.
One of the envelopes contains letter
from the offices of the Southern New
England railroad, while another is sup.
posed to be an advisory letter from some
railroad official. apparently on terms OF
intimacy with Reardon, for one sylla
BILE nickname is subscribed. Several
dainty little missives postmarked Nal
den and Wakefield, Mass, purport to
come from the missing mans sweet
heart. She refers to his whereabouts
early in September several times, but
furnishes little that could be used as
a clue to Reardon's home. Letters from
the woman are signed "Joey." In one of
them she abjured the young man to give
up drinking, and the police are disposed
to believe that liquor may have been
partly responsible for his condition Sat
urday night, although witnesses to his
queer actions say that he acted more
like a deranged person.
The missing Mr. Reardon is described
as a young man of medium height, who
wore black suit of ordinary appear
ance, rubber raincoat, and tan oxfords.
When last seen he was without hat