The daily Alaskan., 1918-02-28
BlG MYSTERY.
 SOLVED

Solved at last is the year old mys- tsrv Of the black leather bag. To- day the bag, with it's valuable conterts. Is on the way to its own CT, [. Launcelot Hildebrand, sometimes of London, Liverpool, Chicago, san Diego, Las Vegas, N. M, and last but not least, Rumble Bee, Ariz.
 After months of fruitleSs search, the untiring efforts of the lost and found department Of the Pa cific Steamship Company have been rewarded. The bag has been ex- pressed to E. Launcelot Htldehrand in Las Vegas, and Perry Ottosen, port steward for the company in Seattle, in charge of the lost and found department, has paused long enough in his labor of locating oth- CT owners to breath a deep sigh of relief.
 Perhaps the reason was that cap ta' u ". Long, of CadeganI Gardens, London, is with the Crusaders in distant Jerusalem. At any rate, he never responded to an inquiry sent him occasioned by a note in the blact bag which said that in case of accident to E.Launcelot Hide brand to notify Captain Long of Cadegan Gardens
 There seemed to be enough let ters. mining claims, receipts for the sale of horses In carload lots, water right grants and other legal and personal papers packed in the mysterious black bag to locate an! person anywhere in the world, but All except one failed to divulge even the approximate habitat of the il- lusive Mir. Hildebrand.
 The last remaining clue, which | eventually proved that the owner | of the bag was an actuality and not figment of the overworked brain Of NIT. Ottosen, was an engraved | announcement of the marriage of E. Launcelot Hildebrand to the daugh- 1 ter of Mrs. Robert Topham Steele, 31 Princess Avenue, Liverpool, Eng laEd. A letter of inquiry sent to Mrs. Robert Topham Steele finally brought ? reply, postmarked Las Vegas, from Mrs. Hildebrald, who asked that the black bag be sent to har husband at that town, but the failure of NIT. HildebTand to make inquiry for his bag still re mains unexplained, aalthough Il can be accounted for in general way.
 Lon,: experience of the Pacific Steamship Company has proven that 8 large proportion of travelers leave valuable articles behind and are not able to recall, even approxL mately, where they left them. A re- bort just compiled by A R. Gardner head of the Pacific Steamship Con- Oany's commissary department, on the subject shows that during the year 494 articles Of value were left 'n staterooms by passengers. Of this number only 129 were claim ed by the owners, and in many instances the owners had to be run down as was Mir. Hildebrand.
 According to MT. Gardner, to a person not acquainted with the ins and outs of a lost and found de partment of 6 steamship or raidroad company or a large hotel, it is as- tonlshiDI how careless the travelling public is with regard to it's yalu- Rbles. The years gleanings in- cludei numerous watches, the value Of one being $500. A passenger on the Yale walked blissfully ashore leaving behind a wallet containing $500 i'll cash. Incidentally, the honest steward who found the wal let and turned 1t over to the Com pany received no reward from the owner when he finally claimed it.
 Mir. Hildebrand left his bag on the Admiral Schley in October, 1916. For several months it was held with out being opened, awaiting its owner to claim 1t. Then it's contents were examined, their val ue ascertained, and the world wide search for Mir. Hildebrand was be- gun. Letters of inquiry addressed to him ct the Onwentsia Polo Club, and Deer Path Inn, Lake Forest, Ill, Coronado Country Club, Cor