The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1921-03-07
No Points of Similarity Be-
tween Missing Barre Man
and Supposed Braley
PORTLAND POLICE
ADMIT HAVE NO CLUE
They Send s. shot Along
With DeSs sption of Man
Merl sy.ed By Stewart

Any eief that Charles w. Stewart
Of As North Union avenue, Portland,
Ore, had discovered Fred n Braley,
the missing Barre man, who dropped
out of the lives of his Barre friends
shortly after he left the city in Decem
ber, 1918, and whose papers and other
articles were found buried in two glass
Jars in a Portland (Ore.) park last
summer was completely shaken to-day
by the receipt of letter from the
Portland police department to c. f.
Grossarth of 454 North avenue, Bur-
lington, giving description of the sup
posed Braley, together with snap
shot picture of the man. Neither the
description nor the picture bears resem-
bance to Braley.
Chief of Inspectors John Clark of
the Portland police department wrote
to Mr.. Grossarth that the man whom
Mr.. Stewart had in mind elves in a
shack at 1906 South East S3rd street,
named Charles Bailey la snapshot of
whom we enclosel as being the missing
Mr., Braley. This man in the picture is
six feet, one and one e-half inches tall,
gray hair, gray sandy mustache, mar
row shoulders and very thin, and prob
ably weighs l4O to $50 pounds and has
stoop shoulders If he is not the Mr.
Bralev sought, we are entirely without
information concerning him. This man
Bailey claims TO have been born and
raised in Ohio"
Those who were acquainted with Mr.
Braley will recognize at once that the
description does not fit him at all
While of good height Mr. Braley was
under six feet tall, had coal black hair
when he left Barre, had black beard
and mustache (although clean shavenl,
was fairly broad of shoulders and,
when living in Barre, was fairly ro-
bust. weighing considerably more than
the man who calls himself Bailey
Moreover, Mr. Braley was of straight
figure. not stoop shouldered, as the
Portland man was described.
If any further proof Is needed to in
dicate that the Portland man is not
Fred r. Braley, the snapshot furnishes
that proof, the picture revealing man
apparently 60 or 65 years of age with
features entirely dissimilar TO those of
Mr. Braley. As friends Of the former
Barre man will recall he was always
we'll -groomed. whereas the figure in the
picture was quite the opposite.
The receipt of this information from
the Portland police has served to de-
press still further the friends of the
lnheard from Barre man as they had
begun to build up a hope that the man
rqported BY Mr.. Stewart OF Portland
was really Mr., Bralev. The disappoint-
ment over the dssimilarity between
the two descriptions is also Increased
bv the admission by the Portland
police that they have absolutely no
information a. to what may have be-
come Of Mr.. Braley.
The last which Barre persons heard
from Mr. Braley was a letter written
I'm San Francisco. more than two years
seo. stating that he was just about TO
start for Portland The next trace ot
him was furnished by the discovery OF
tha gIass lars in siN-foot trench in
secluded part of Macleay park. Port
il,nd thp lars containing many private
napers. including Mir Braley's will The
lars were found by a drug store clerk
who. while travelling through the park
stumbled into the trench.