The Washington times., 1922-04-24
HIS DEATH
NOTESEEN
AS BOGUS
Police Believe Ex-Marine, Who
Deserted Bride of Day, Is
Still Alive.

Walter Raymond Fisher, for
whose body the police have been
dragging the Potomac River for
the last twenty-four hours, fol-
lowing his mysterious disappear
ance after he had left a note TO 4
his bride of twelve hours telling
her to look for his body in the
river, is believed TO be living. 4
Police Doubt Suicide.
Police, while still searching for
the body. scout the theory that.
Fisher executed his threat Of suicide,
The note found by ais wife yesterday
morning, read:
Look for my body In the river at
the point Of the Speedway.
WALTER"
why he should have married ON
Saturday afternoon, Miss Mary v.
Bloxton, nineteen years old. living
at 1922 Fifteenth street, and then
have disappeared Sunday morning,
is a mystery to his young bride and
the police.
Instead Of the wedding breakfast
his bride had planned, Mrs. Fisher
found the note on her dining-room
table.
Fisher was formerly a member of
the Marine Corps and, unknown to
the girl he married, had resigned
from the service on April 1b last.
That this fact was not known to
his wife is shown by the fact that
she told police this morning that un-
less her husbands body was found
within sixty days, he would be listed
as a deserter.
Act Puzzles Bride.
Pale and wan, Mrs. Fisher declared
she could think of no explanation for
her husbands disappearance.
I'VE were married only Saturday
afternoon" she said. I'VE had
planned and expected to be so
happy and this awful thing has hap
pened. I am at a total loss to
explain the action Of my husband"
The bride, hardly more than nine
teen years of age, declared they
were as happy as could be and
had been engaged for some time.
I'VE were devoted" she said. "If
we hadn't loved each other we
would naver have gotten married.
There is no possible explanation
that I can think of as to why he
should have gone away like this"
To the police, however, Mrs.
Fisher said, her husband was in
financial difficulties, and that this
might have had something to do
with his disappear aBee.
Several Of his TFtstsis owed him
considerable sum OF money, which
should have been paid some time
ago, and II is barely possible that
might have caused the terrible
thing that my husband has done"
she said.
Asks River 70 BE Dragged.
They must drag the river from
one end to the other and find his
body" she declared. "If / had the
money 1 would have the river
dragged myself"
Police officials, after dragging
the river for several hundred yards
at the point yesterday and last
night, expressed some doubt that
Fisher had committed suicide.
The attempt to locate the body,
however, will not be abandoned. al
though dozens Of similar cases, II
is said, have been reported to the
police, who have dragged the river
for days, only to find the supposed
suicide had been a hoax.
Had $4,000 Insurance.
Fisher is reported to have carried
t20. 900 insurance, OF which 800
was Government insurance, and the
only plausible explanation OF his
dlsappearance IL that he thousht
that by committing suicide his wife
could collect the insurance and live
Com(oi tablS on II.
Fisher had expected 20 take an
examination shortly foT promotion an
an officer and had bcA studying for
the examinations, Mrs. Fisher said
this morning, ..