San Antonio light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1911-1993, 1923-01-18
HIS HORSE IS SEEN
Murder Theory Grows as
Cancelled Check Comes
to Light.
START SEARCHFOR BODY
|An Parties Will Be Brought
Here for Investi-
CATION.

Questioning of a third man at Pleas
anton Thursday afternoon is expected
10 shed light on the mystery surround
Eng the disappearance Of Solomon
George, Assyrian peddler. who disap-
|peared from San Antonio several weeks
hgo and has not since been heard from.
working on the theory that the man
may have been murdered and his body
hidden in some secluded spot southwest
|bf San Antonio, Bexar, and LaSaHe
bounty officers are bending every effort
a,selye the mystery.
Al telephone message shortly after
boon Thursday from Deputy Sheriff
Holm Wildenghal at Cotulla, stated that
special deputy from Bexar county &C.
eompanied by man taken into Gus.
tody at San Antonio Wednesday, had
eft for Pleasanton to question a man
who is believed TO know something
about the case. One man is held in
Bail at Cotulla and it was to question
| these two together that the special
Ileputy from Bexar county, with his
charge went to Cotulla Wednesday
afternoon.
A cancelled check and several post
Hated letters, the deputy sheriff said.
Figure in the investigation and strength
In his belief that George may have
been murdered. Reports reaching him,
Deputy Wildenghal said. are to the eff
Feet that George, when last seen near
PleasantOn several weeks ago. had about
10000 in his possession. A report also
reached LaSalle county officers Thurs
hay, the deputy said, that horse an
wering the description of one driven by
George when he was last seen. had been
found about ten miles north of COtulla.
An officer has been sent. the deputy
bald, TO make an investigation.
Letters received by friends Of the
missing man. the deputy sheriff said,
lpon close scrutiny appear to have been
nutilated. Whereas the officer said.
he original date which appears to have
been placed on the letters was October
Il seems to have been erased and
october so substituted. This fact.
AIKEN in connection with the cashing
4 check said to have been signed by
he missing man, leads the LaSalle
bounty officers to believe that their in
Iestigation will lead to the discovery
kf the body of George and also his
wagon and team with which he was
Won't to travel throughout southwest
Texas, peddling his wares.
Now Hold Three Men.
Information concerning the disappear
pge. of George came TO the Bexar coun-
q sheriff's office several weeks ago. II
vas not until Tuesday night, however,
hat Chief Deputy Alphonse Newton
eceived word from Deputy Sheriff Will
enghal that he had taken a man into
ustody in connection with the case.
pon information from Cotulla, Bexar
ounty officers then took second man
nto custody and sent him, in charge
special deputy, to that town in or
er that he might be questioned along
With the man in custody there. 1t was
fter the two were brought together,
Deputy Weldenghal said that he learned
here was a third man at Pleasanton
Yho might have information concerning
he missing man.
While the man arrested at Cotulla
still held in Jail there, it was intim-
ted that he, with the man in charge of
he special deputy and the third man
'hich he hopes to find at Pleasanton,
ill be brought to San Antonio to con-
niue the investigation.