The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1922-05-29
new HUNT FOR
AMBROSE SMALL
Sisters of Missing Canadian
Theater Magnate Not Salts.
fled With Work of Police.
DISAPPEARED TWO YEARS AGO
Whole North American Continent Cow
cred and Even Psychics Consulted
in Search for Man Who So
Strangely Vanished.

Toronto, Ont - The worldwide
search for Ambrose Joseph Small, mil
HOnaire Toronto chain-theater owner
again has come to the front.
New developments indicate that an
other search for the missing magnate
may be undertaken-a search even
! more comprehensive and spectacular
than the one that followed Smalls
mysterious disappearance.
Small dropped out of the world De-
cember 2, 1919 Toronto police imme-
diately started search They sent
circulars offering vast rewards to po-
lice in every civilized nation they sent
officers on trips through the whole
North American continent, they even
consulted protested psychics all in
vain.
Then came lull 1t seemed that
the case of Ambrose Small was to be
added to the list of unsOlved police
mysteries.
But now a new element has been
injected into the case. Gertrude and
Florence, the two sisters of the miss
ing millionaire, declare the police have
not prosecuted the search with enough
vigor and thoroughness. And Gideon
Grant, attorney for the two sisters,
says he will ask the attorney general
to open a new probe-a probe he is
satisfied will reveal the fate of the
missing magnatel
Case to the Fore Again.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Theresa Small the
wife-or perhaps the widow-of the
missing man, has spent vast sums to
aid the police
Thus the whole case has been
pushed to the fore. Police are review
ing the disappearance itself and the
search that followed
Here is the story:
SmalTs fortune at the time of his
disappearance seems to have been 49,
100000. He controlled Sc theaters in
Canada.
On the afternoon of December 2,
1919, he put through a big theatrical |
deal involving S1OOO,OOO Then he left
Small he would take dinner with her |
at 80. Ee stopped to buy news
paper from his favol'ite newsboy. He |
entered barbershop to be shaved by |
a barber whose services he always |
had preferred Both barber and news
boy have signed afiidavits telling of !
their last talk with Small
After he left his barber, Small van
ished. He's not since been heard of.
Was he kidnapped? Murdered? Or
did he flee? Police do not know. But
here are the scattered threads Of evil
dence they have corrected:
Shortly after Sralls disappearance
John Doughty his secretary, also dis
appeared. He was arrested in Oregon.
He is now serving time for the theft
Of $1O5,O00 in bonds, Small's property,
but he could not be directly connected
with Small's disappearance.
Mysterious Clues.
The letters of "B. B. Friend" These
we're sent to Col. Richard j. Hare, an
attorney. The writer protested he
,ould tell SmaIl's whereabouts. But
he letters led to nothing
The story of Alfred Elson, caretaker
If Rosary hall here. Elson says he
Jaw motorcar, containing bundle
which might have contained a body,
rive up road near Rosary hall on
he day of Small's disappearance. He
links the cars passengers may have
disposed of Small's body then.
The testimony of Catherine M. Dunn, .
ormerly maid in the Small house
old She maintains Small returned
o his home in the interval between )
is visit to the barber and bis disap I
earance I
The alleged vision of Louis Benja-
lin, Toronto medium, who said Small
ppeared to him and told him he was
t Honey Harbor, Nantucket, Long Is 4
and Sound 1t was later learned that
Ioney Harbor is on Georgian bay,
'ntario.
And the village of Veronica, Ont, Z
ops it's head into the case to insist
nat a man taken into custody as
mall year ago and later released,
as Small, despite statements of rela
yes that the man was stranger.
That's the confusing tangle Of evil
ence. And tangle it will remain n
Mess, as Attorney Grant believes the
-torney general can uncover some 4
'esh clues.
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