The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-04
PIANIST GODOWSKI IS
MISSING; ATTACK FEARED
Had 81 200 and Considerable
Jewelry With Him When
He Disappeared.
:. B. TRASk ALSO SOUGHT

The police have been asked to aid In
searching for Leopold Godowski. the Po-
lish pianist. and stephen B. Trask. who
Is wanted in connection with the settle
ment OF several estates under which he
is beneficiary. Godowskrs family fears
had considerable money and jewelry with
him at the time OF his disappearance.
Godowski has been missing from his
home at Avon. y. j., since Wednesday
morning. Fearful that he may have been
attacked by thugs. Nine Godowski, his
wife. has asked the police of New York
and New Jersey and the Burns Detective
Agency to search for him. lie had 81. 900
In cash and hundreds OF dollars worth
of jcwelry in his possession when he
disappeared
The famous composers actions after
he left his family at Avon at o'clock
on Wednesday morning have been traced
up to o'clock i'm the evening. At that
hour he was hurrying TO catch a train
home, but whatever befell him overlook
him before he had time to reach the
station. All day Thursday his wife. his
four children and his friends In this city
tried to locate him. Thursday night they
feared he had been wsylaid and asked
the police to aid them. A general alarm
was sent out Immediately.
Godowski's daughter said last night
that for several days past he had been
extremely nervous. IL was evident 20
his family that he was overworked and
they advised him TO rest. He was under
contract to deliver to Western music
firm thirty piano pieces before Septem-
bcr /. and had finished only twenty-one
of them
lie worried over his failure to have
the others ready, aud in his general
physical condition 1t is feared that he
suffered an attack of amnes!a. His
family are under the impression that
he was. robbed or is being held for
ransom.
Godowski has been living with his
wife and children this summer at the
home of Alexander Lambert at Avon.
which the pianist rented when he found
he could not return to Europe on ac-
count OF the war. His home life was
happy. On Wednesday morning when
he left his Avon home he intended to go
to the Schirmer music publishing house,
at , East Forty-third street He went
there. visited several other places In the
city and late In the afternoon went 10
the Fox Hair Institute. at Fifth avenue
and Thirty-fourth street. to nave MS
scalp massaged.
Il was about o'clock when he lett
there and Nine. Godowski has found out
since that he said he was In hurry
to catch train home. That was the
last seen OF him by any one who Knew
him. Nine Godowski said last night
that he also intended on Wednesday TO
deposit the 81 900 he carried with the
Commercial Trust Company. AT liol
Broadway, and with the United states
Mortgage and Trust Company, at Broad
/ way and Seventy-third street. lie ala
not appear a; either bank.
Godowski is 46 years old. He was
born i'm Russian Poland in 1870 and was
pupil Of Saint -Saens. lie has black
curly hair is smooth shaven and stout
When he left home he wore double
breasted blue suit. IA black light over
coat. soft gray hat tan shoes. and
purple scarf with a diamond. emerald
and sapphire horseshoe scarfpin. He
carried an oval shaped gold watch with
his initials set in diamonds, "A platinum
watch chain, a gold locket with his
initials and pictures of his four chill
dren.
All summer Godowski has been work
ing hard on new musical compositions !.
he is the author OF many musical selec-
tions, and was in constant communica"
ton with the Art Publication Society. in
st. Louis. OF which he was editor In
chief
C;odowski was to have made "A tour
of the East and West this coming win
ter His winter home is at the Hotel
Ansonia.