Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1915-02-20
LAST ECHO Or
D|NSMORE CASE
FINALLY HEARD
Judge G. A. Richardson De-
cideS $500 Reward for Def
mite News Of Disappeared"
Man Goes to Mrs, Taylor

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Artesla, n. NJ, Feb. l9.--Judge @.
A. Richardson. of Roswell, yesterday
rendered a decision giving the $500
reward offered for Information as 60
the whereabouts OF Charles A. Dins-
more 10 Mrs. John II. Taylor, OF Clo-
Wis, who learned where Dinsmore was
while on visit to her mother at
keene, Texas. shortly after the disap-
pearance OF the former secretary of
the Artesla Chamber of Commerce.
Sheriff Young, OF Chavez. had sued
for the reward, which has been in the
First state bank of-Artesia for many
months. Mrs. Taylor interviewed, and
all other claimants for the reward
dropped out of the case. Judge
Richardson held that Mrs. Taylor fur
nished the first information regard
ing Dinsmore and she win receive the
$300.
last Chapter of Sensation.
This is the last chapter of a case
which created much excitement not
only in Artesia but throughout the
pecos valley, for Dinsmore was well
known and rather a popular man.
For some years before coming TO this
section he lived in I'll Paso, Texas. and
published the I'll Paso Mining Jour
nal. After trip of inspection
through the Pecos valley oil field he
decided TO locate in Artesia, and made
a contract with a local publishing
company 10 handle his magazine. He
was elected secretary of the Chamber
Of Commerce at a salary Of 500 per
month, and was to devote two weeks
in each month to the affairs Of the
organization. The woman known
here as Mrs Dinsmore came with him
ON his first trip. and they lived togeth-
er during their entire stay In Artesia.
Was live Wire.
Dinsmore proved to be live wire,
He had charge of the annual alfalfa
festival one year, and made n tree
mendous success of the middle valley
show He boosted hard for the coun-
try, not only in his own magazine but
succeeded in obtaining free publicity
in Dallas, Fort Worth and ST. Louis
papers He originated the idea of the
miniature bale OF alfalfa which
proved 20 be one of the best publicity
schemes ever brought out in the state
The st. Louis Globe Democrat pub
slished a half-tone of one OF the bales
After few months work he began
to drop the Chamber of Commerce
business 60 interest himself with the
Pecol companies of England and filed
on and made proof on twenty thous-
and acres of land in the Seven Rivers
district for that company They paid
him a salary and all expenses and
purchased an auto for his exclusive
use. Just as he had finished this
work the Chamber of Commerce of
Carlsbad made him a proposition to
move his magazine TO that city, and
he left Artesia in a car, in company
with Sam Brown, then editor of q
local newspaper, for a trip over the
plains country to look after business.
They drove into Roswell, and after
leaving Brown at a hotel. Dinsmore
drove away and has not been seen
since in New Mexico.
Mrs. Dinsmore received the SYM
pathy of the community, and as she
believed Dnsmore had met with an
accident or foul play, many searching
parties were organized by Artesia bus
mess men to go out and look for him.
Mrs. Dinsmore placed $500 in the
State bank as reward for informa-
ton concerning him, and it was Mrs.
Taylor who first telephoned TO Ar
tesla that Dinsmore was living in
Keene, Texas, with his real wife and
their children. The Artesia Mrs.
Dinsmore at once left for El Paso
and upon arriving there, wired the
bank to withdraw the reward, but this
could not be done as IL had been
claimed by Mrs. Taylor. The Pecol
people sent Attorney j. D. Atwood to
Keene, where he recovered the car
belonging to the oil company, but in
the meantime Dinsmore and his fam
lily had left and have not been heard
from since.