The weekly tribune and the Cape County herald. (Cape Girardeau, Mo.) 1914-1918, 1915-06-25
ROBERT c. CROW IS
FOUNDINU.S.ARM
IS ST.LOUS REPORT

Mo-, and former State Senator, who
disappeared mysteriously from the
Pontiac Hotel in st. Louis, Dec. 81,
1914, has been found, according to ad-
missions made today by officials of a
life Insurance company in which he
carried policy. 1t is declared that,
within the las 10 days an enlisted SOL
der in the United States army has
been positively identified as Crow, al
though st. Louis officials of the COM
pany say they do not know at what
post
His wife at Charlottesville, former
Congressman Charles A. Crow of
Campbell, Mo-, brother, and Ebert
Crow of Monet, Mo-, a half-brother,
have been notified. Precautions have
been taken, however, to prevent the
matter from becoming public, and it is
impossible to learn what action rela-
tives of the missing man have decided
up. i
The startling manner of Crows dis
appearance and the subsequent re4vela
ton that another woman than HIS wife
was closely interested in hims,S caused
extraordinary police activity in the
case at the time, and STIRRED many
communities in Southeast Missouri
where the Crow family<has long beer
prominent. His wife $persisted in ar
expression of belief that he had been
murdered and his tSody concealed, and
refused to believe stories about the
other woman, Mhs. Bessie Halliday. 2G
years old ia divorcee.
She was so firmly convinced of his
Gdeath that she filed a claim against
the National Life Insurance Co., of
Vermont, in which he had a policy. 1t
was this claim which led to the dis
cOvery of the missing man.
Grow, who was agent for another
life insurance company, was in st.
Louis before the Christmas holidays,
ostensibly to do some shopping and to
straighten up his financial affairs,
which, subsequently, were found in
good order. His clothing, overcoats,
two suits, hat, shoes, socks and latter
with suspenders attached, his shirt
with buttons in it and collar with tie
in place, were all found in the hotel.
Employees of the hotel said no pack
ages which might have contained other
clothing had been taken to him.
From his half brother, Ebert, the
police learned that the missing man
had several women acquaintance,
Mrs. Halliday among them. She was
founl at the Pontiac. She told the pO-
lice she had known Crow for four
years. that he had given her money
and presents and that she frequently
had met him in St. Louis and other
placei where ne went on business.
1ih9nas Q. Dix, associate general
agent in st. Louis of the National Life
Insurance Co, of Vermont, confirmed
this morning the news that the miss
ing man had been found.
All he knew of the matter, he said,
was that the general offices of his
company at Montpelier, VT, had sent
him photographs of Crow for identifi-
cation. One of them was taken in a
soldiers uniform and the other was in
civilians clothes. He has known Grow
a long time-even talked with him the
day before he disappeared-and there
was no possibility of mistake Suisse
quently, he said, the home office had
notified him the identity of the soldier
as Crow had been completely estab-
lished.
Mrs. Grow, when seen by a CORE
spondent at Charlottesville this after
noon, denied that her husband had
been found in the army. The reward
offered several months ago for infor-
nation leading to his discovery,
whether dead or living, has been with
drawn.