The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-10-17
VEInHE OItD ~ VVIVE
Former Film Producer, Known
in Topeka, Disappears.
Father in This City Refuses to
Make Amy Statement.
HEARD NOTHING IN 3 MONTHS
BrOther-in-Law in st. Louis
Fears He Has Broken Down.
successive Losses in TheaterS
Depressed Him."

Dispatches today indicate the dis
appearance from st. Louis of Orlin T.
Crawford, former prominent picture
film producer and son of l. M. Craw-
ford, of Topeka. According to dis
patch, Mrs. Crawford and her son
also left the city Parents of o. T.
Crawford today stated they did not
Know where their son might be fouTe-
Neither did they know the address Or
name of Mrs. Crawford's parents.
dress or name of Mrs. Crawford's S
parents.
No details concerning the missing
film and theatrical producer are con-
tained in early dispatches from st.
Louis kilograms indicated Mrs
Crawford and her son had come to
Topeka. At the L. M. Crawford home
today it was denied that the woman
was here.
Il think Mrs. Crawford is a Chicago
woman, but I do not know her ad-
dress or the name of her parents"
said Mrs. Crawford. Il met her but
once"
L. M. Crawford, father of the al
legged missing man, positively declined
! to discuss the case. Roy Crawford,
son, volunteered the information that
he could straighten out the matter,
but at the request of his father de-
clined to talk.
my son is fifty years old and able
to look after himself and 1 am not
concerned N the NATTER said the
elder Crawford.
But o. T. Crawford is your son %
urged a reporter.
That makes no difference. You
just as we'll stop. 1 haven't anything
to say
offers were made to call a stenog-
rapher or to take a written statement,
but the father of the alleged missing
I man refused to go into details
Receive No Reply.
! At the Crawford home it was stated
that no word had been received from
! o. T. Crawford during the last sew
J eral months. The father of the man
said to be missing stated he had writ
j ten his son in st. Louis, but had re-
he said, his son had gone on a vaca-
/ ton.
| Later kilograms received from st.
! Louis were reported to the Crawford
home this afternoon. In response to
these later announcements. Mr.. Craw-
/ ford stated he had not seen or heard
from his son in three months. He
denied that Mrs. o. T. Crawford and
son are or have been in Topeka
i Financial losses are given as the
/ cause of Crawford's disappearance, st.
Louis dispatches state. Here is a tele-
gram received by the state Journal
| today concerning the film and the
! atrica1 producers disappearance:
! 1.-The mysterious disappearance OF
/ Orlin T. Crawford. former millionaire
4 film producer and builder of moving
picture theaters. whose wife and son
are staying with his parents in To-
I peka, was reported here today, accord
/ ing to Oscar Dane. manager of the I'm
peria1 theater and brother-in-law OF
! Crawford. The latters relatives have
not heard from him for the last three
months.
Successive losses which brought his
fortune down from more than a mil
lion to such a depth that Crawford
had TO take up the role of travelling
] salesman. are known to have greatly
/ depressed him. We would like to
know where he is said Dane. He
has gone thru enough to break dowr
any man. If he is sick anywhere and
j I can help him in any way I want tc
/ do it. He is a comparatively youns
man, As years or thereahouts and he
has an opportunity to build up his sue
cess again.