Show WHERES HIS HONEY A MYSTERY OX WHICH PARKERS FRIENDS ARE WORKING Evidence That He Didnt Gamble Nor Wnji He a Slave to the Cup Aid of the Sleuths Finally Called In The mystery of the disappearance of sundry thousands which E C Parker is said to have procured from sundry persons per-sons and firms into which he wormed himself has put the suicides entire circle of friends to guessing and there I is no telling at what moment the unrelenting un-relenting fury from which he fled maybe may-be unmasked He was not addicted 1 to gambling Men who deal the cards testify to this as do his most intimate friends He was not a slave to drink for his cronies declare that his taste tor it was gratified witai a lew mugs of beer and how these thousands could have disappeared leaving no trace behind be-hind is a question that is mysteriously perplexing Theories are as thick a moths around an electric bulb A popular pop-ular one is that ever since he shook the dust of Ohio from his feet to bury his identity among the strange faces of the far west some leech has been preying prey-ing upon him levying the wages of the past from which he fled and demanding demand-ing the price of silence whenever the distracted exile had a dollar in sight This i Is surmised by his friends is the fury from which the dead Orestes sought refuge in the grave Certain it is that Parker saved nothing out of his alleged peculations for himselfnot even enough with which to pay for the cold and narrow tenement in which body and mind finally found peace and whe a UY distance1 the hnrr p t would not down in life And for this nio irlenas paia tHe wilnkiea landKmi of death Yesterday It was determined by a number of those who have Interested Inter-ested themselves in the strange case to leave no stone unturned to the end that the mystery may be revealed and to that end a search has been commenced com-menced with the aid of detectives that must lead to however some light dim More sinned against than sinning was the impression expressed by one of Parkers friends and yet am I the last man to excuse him for having compounded com-pounded his sins because an earlier sin required i I believe that some one was bleeding him for years I not then where did these thousands of which men say he mulcted them go He wasS no spendthrift that Ill swear to Perhaps I Per-haps he had sinnedmost men have i but no man can convince me that the sin with which the le of life began was one tenth as bad a that which finally i made a suicide of him I Alt present the effort to clear up the i mystery is being directed towards the avenues through which remittances are made to outside points and should the I destination of the moneys be established estab-lished not only will those to whom i Parker was indebted at the time he I shuffled off begin civil action for their recovery but the attention of the grand jury will be invited to those who the suicides friends contend drove him to the living sin the lving 1 |