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1X1his• : -Mfei'.OUflf- T. BbCirty *ft*r an investigation mad* Tuesday dcUrvd he had found sufficient mysterious circunutances sur-. the dinppeersiice of Olay CantrUl, a former Bast Endyoenf du about a yesr to justify the suspicion that he wm the Ttotfaa of foul play and relatives have been advised to come here uufl inquire into the matter, *•The investigation was made obly. after Heeoud letter -was re-ecived frnra Prof. Eddie Can trill,* schtwi teacher of Ophir, Ky., a . brother of the missing man. .Writing under date, of December 28 lie told/ofthie aunt, Mrs. Mary Cau-’trill,-of No...010 Eighth streui,'writing to him about Clay. She, he.said, declared in her letter that the’*young man was “arrested ai her'home some time between De-’. e ember 10, 1910, and February 1,1914, was handcuffed, placed into* .patrol wagon, hurried to some secret place and murdered.” Prof.Cantrill accordingly demanded the fact* in the ease, threatening to Invoke the law- unless such were forthcoming. ./ Mayor Adam Frick investigated and;found that there were no ree-. or da showing Oantriil whs arrested and advised the brother that the department knew nothing about, Ctey aud that no murders hid been committed in Ports-in a uth during the period mentioned.With the mayor's reply the incident was considered dropped, the officials believing the Htory to be that of some visionary person,A second letter from Prof, Cmi-Iriii vu received Tuesday. He stated that ho was at a loss to account for the failure of the official! to fftid any record of his brother having been in court or what could be his aunt's motive in deceiving him. She had written to his mother, he says in his letter, that “the last time she saw Clay was when four policemen took him from her house.” The last letter received from him lum-Bclfwns on December 3, 19113.This postal card is still mother's possession.Prof. Cautrill adds I hat bis brother was never known to have absented himself from home so long a period before. lie, therefore, believes that he has good ground for suspecting foul play and has arranged to send ft spe-eiul agent to Portsmouth to investigate. Hu said if he were actually I liken into custody by the police and handcuffed some disposition surely must have been made or him ju court. Judging from the tone of hia letter Prof. Cun trill in greatly wrought up over the whole affair and will leave 119 stone unturned to learn the fulc of his brother.Chief MeCurLy, aRur a conference witlr the mayor, culled on Mrs. CttJitrill, Tuusduy afternoon. She said the last she saw of her nephew was tbo time the four police’officers cfuuo into her yardand arrested him, lie was intoxicated and hud several buttles of whiskey on his person, flu was loaded into the horse patrol wagon.Questioned closely by the chief, Mth. Can trill said that her nephew had previously had noma trouble with her son and threatened to lull him. Iter son, she said, immediately after Unit hud enlisted in thft l/. 8, Itcgulur1 nnny mid was still iu the service.Mayor Frick has mldruHscd i\ letter to the. brother at Ophir and ndvised him lo conic to Torts-moiith pnst-luiste.‘Mntiec Oantriil, the cousin of the inlasing man and wlm is in the regular army, in now said to lm slnlmnc.d in Ihc Philippine 1s-IiliuIk.
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Portsmouth Weekly Times
Portsmouth, Ohio, US
Sat, Jan 09, 1915
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