The Glenwood post., 1923-12-13
Arrested While Working on Dairy Farm
at YpsiIanti Under the Name
of Roy Singer
iiE PLEADS LAPSE OF MEMORY

Detroit, Dec. 1.-Walter Uoupe 33
years of age, of Grand Junction, Colo,
was arrested today by the Detsoit po-
lice on farm near Ypsilanti while
working as farm hand under the
name of Roy Singer.
IIoupo is held for the Colorado au-
thorities on charge of embezzling
$500 from the Farmers Life Insur-
ance company of Denver.
Loupe told the Officers who made
the arrest that his automobile went
over tho cliff into the Colorado river
on the night of Oct. % just east of
Glenwood Springs, and that after es-
Gaping from the machine as it lay in
the river, he sustained loss of mem
ory f3om the accident.
Loupe said he did not know that
searchers had dragged the river for his
body and he did not give any account
of his arrival here or of his change
of name.
The apprehension and arrest of Wal
ter Loupe on dairy farm near De-
troit last Friday removes all doubt and
mystery, so far as it was a mystery, in
connection with the disappearance Of
Loupe of Grand Junction, talented
singer and insurance salesman, who
was known to drive his car from Rifle
to Glenwood the evening of October
%, last, and whose cas- was found the
following morning in the Colorado
river about three and one-half miles
east of Glenwood, where it had run
over or had been pushed over steep
embankmcnt to the water about thirty.
five feet below.
Searchers, acting on the theory that
Loupe had been hurled into the river
through the accidental plunge over the
bank and had been drowned, dynamit-
ed the river thoroughly in an effort
to find the body of Loupe, but without
avail.
A little investigation revealed the
fact that Loupe, when on the road,
passed as am unmarried man and was
very free in his conduct toward the
fair sex, and that rumor was current
that he was short in his accounts with
the Farmers Life Insurance company
of Denver, by whom he was employed
as general agent. AS these and other
facts became known the public quickly
discounted the foul play and accidental
death theories, and for several weeks
the people have just been waiting for
Loupe's arrest, feeling confident that
his apprehension was only matter of
time.
Soon after Loupe's strange disap-
pearance visit was made to this
country by j. p. McInroy, superin-
tendent of agencies for the Farmers
life Insurance company of Denver,
and later he was joined by Harry H.
Fuller, a detective for the Zurich In
surance company Of Chicago, in which
some of Loupes life and accident in
surance was carried. These investiga
ors discarded the foul play, suicide
and accidental death theories and
went to work on the assumption that
Loupe was alive and that he had mys-
teriously dropped from sight in the
belief and hope that his accidental
death would be conceded, and that his
heavy insurance Of $46,000 or about
$4,000 in case of accidental death,
would be collected by his wife, in
whose favor it had been written.
Following this line Of reasoning they
found many Indications to support
them in their theory that Loupe was
alive and that he was running away
from a bad condition in Cclosado
which was gradually growing worse,
and which he must have become con.