Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-12-21
Fisher Affair
Seems Faxed
Man Said To Have Been Spirited
of Leaves Debts Aggregating
$1,000.

The mystery surrounding the sud-
den disappearance of j. r. Fisher,
! thirty-year-o electrician, from Fair
fax, Va, last Wednesday night, has
been partially cleared up and Vlr-
ginia authorities are convinced the
man did not meet with foul play.
Fisher left Fairfax voluntarily,
Sheriff j. X. Allison, who has been
investigating the electricians sudden
exit, declared today.
The Ford roadster, which Fisher
owned was found Abandoned yester-
day afternoon near the Union Sta
tion. Virginia police also learned
that Fisher was in Washington last
Wednesday night and visited the home
of an aunt here.
Sheriff Allison said today that r. D.
Shreve, a friend of Fisher, received
postcard today which is thought to
have been sent from Baltimore.
The note unsigned said:
"Just burn my clothes. never eX-
pect to need them anymore"
The sheriff said that ne believed
Fisher wrote this note. Comparison
of the handwriting with letters writ
ten by Fisher while in Fairfax shows
some discrepancies, but Allison says
he believed the electrician was at
tempting to disguise his handwriting
when writing from Baltimore.
The investigation, according to the
sheriff, shows that Fisher planned to
beat it out of the city. Several days
before leaving Fisher gave man IN
Fairfax his old clothes.
Fisher, the sheriff says, has debts
amounting to 81 600 owing the money
to firms in Washington and Fairfax.
The roadster found near Union Sta
tion yesterday was only partially paid
for and $3.50 was still owed on it.
'I think that Fisher wrote death
note to himself last Wednesday in
order to give the impression that ne
was spirited away and killed. the
sheriff said.
1--WE have searched everywhere, but
have been unable to find the letter.
We think that Fisher, after showing
the note around, gathered up few
things got in his automobile and beat
it.
Eve don't think for one minute
that he was taken away from Fair
fax or killed"
The note, which Fisher last Wednes-
day told friends he had received read
something like this;
"You will never come back here.
Your time is shortfl"
Fisher received this note, he said,
about s O'Clock. Shortly after, in
the company of pretty school teach
er. he went to dinner in Fairfax at the
home of friends. He produced the note
during the diner, reading it to those
assembled.
The couple left this house about 9
o'clock. Fisher driving the girl to
her home. He then returned to his
hotel. where he told r. d. Shreve
and several others about the note.
They advised him to go to his room
and stay there. This he said he would
do.
THut | have to take the car
around to my garage first" he told
his friends, and left the hotel porch
and got in his machine.
That was the last seen of Fisher
in Fairfax. A machine resembling
Fishers was seen to leave Fairfax
about 10 o'clock that night.
"Fisher left Fairfax voluntarily and
went to Washington" Sheriff Alli-
son said. "He went to the home Of
Mrs. Bridge on Kerry street, an
aunt and got check for S25 cashed
by her.
81 think he hung around Washing
ton for a day or two, and then took
train out of the city. leaving his
car near the Union Station.
Local police say that man an
swering Fishers description was seen
to board a train for Philadelphia sew
! eral days ago.
There was nothing found in Fish
er's car to indicate foul play.
Fishers sudden disappearance last
Wednesday night, coming on the heels
O fwhat was purpoted to be threat
| Ijning setter, recalled that several
months ago he told a rather hair-rais-
ing story of county authorities.