Evening star., 1932-09-10
'COL. ROBINS HUNTED
IN CHICAGO AFTER
BEING SEEN Twice
Federal Agents MyStified
Over Disappearance of
Friend of President.
SEARCH Is INTENSIFIED
BY WHITE HOUSE REQUEST
Lone Wolf Mission of Dry Leader
Discounted-Now Working on
Amnesia Theory.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
The disappearance just a week ago
of Col. Raymond Robins, friend of Pres
ident Hoover, today still perplexes a
host of Federal agents working hun
dredS Of miles apart on a score of theo-
ries but few clues.
They concentrated in Chicago where
two persons said they had seen the
prominent prohibitionist and social
economist during the week They also
were active in Florida, origin of boot
logger" threats of violence feared by
Mrs. Robins, and in New York, where
Robins checked out of the City Club
last Saturday.
An assertion by Mrs. w. Requa Bry-
ant that she had seen Robins in the
Chicago Loop Thursday afternoon, to-
day was given the support of a state
ment by w. w. Haupt, automobile deal
er who said he met and greeted the
missing man on the same day.
Friends for 20 Years.
Haupt fixed the time of the meeting
at half an hour after Mrs. Bryant said
she saw Robins. Both have known
Robins for 20 years.
Il couldn't be mistaken" Haupt said.
Il recognized him in the crowd and
said Hello, Mr.. Robins He answered
me and walked on"
Another theory that Robins had Drop
ped out of sight on lone wolf" hunt
advanced when he failed to keep an
appointment with President Hoover last
Tuesday-was abandoned today by pro-
hibition officials directing the activities
of 185 special agents working on the
case.
They felt the passage of full week
and the widespread publicity given
Robins unexplained absence eliminated
such a solution. Meanwhile, Mr.. Hoo
yer frankly was concerned about the
case.
At the request of the White House.
Federal agents In Chicago questioned
Mrs Bryant, but refused to disclose any
findings. Police began a city-wide
check Of hotels on the chance that
Robins might be suffering from
amnesia.
Mrs. Robins Doubts Stories.
Mrs. Bryant said she saw the miss
ing man in the Loop district before read
ing accounts of his disappearance and
that he appeared "diStraught." But at
her sisters home at Southwest Harbor,
Me-, Mrs. Robins doubted that the man
seen in Chicago was her husband. She
knew of no reason why Robins should
have gone there.
In oregon, DR.. Daniel A. Polling, CO.
worker of Robins with the Allied Forces
for Prohibition, said he was worried
over the disappearance and hoped that
Robins might be suffering from am
nesia. Polling last saw him in New
York Saturday, before he left the City
Club, presumably for Washington.
In Brooksville, Fla. home Of Col.
Robins, friends refused to believe he
had been slain S. D. Coogler, presi-
dent of the First National Bank, and
James Whitehurst, attorney, contended
rather that Robins probably had been
taken suddenly Ill or kidnapped and held
for ransom.
No Reward to Be Offered.
Mrs. Robins said no reward will be
offered for her husbands return or in
formation of his whereabouts, explain
ing these were colonels own instruc-
tons. j. Edgar Hoover, director of the
Justice Department Bureau of Investi-
CATION, was ready to throw his entire
force on the case at the first advice
that interstate kidnapping was involved.
Already his men and those of the
Secret Service unoficially are on the
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