Show CURIOUS COINCIDENCE Man and Money Disappear at the Same Time Kansas City Feb 5 Frank Selmer the common law husband of Lettie Hobart is mysteriously missing and so is 1440 in gold belonging to his I I wife As William McKenzies Mllies brotherinlaw place at the table is I vacant it is surmised that he left in 1 I company with Selmer All these per sons together with McKenziess wife I Miss Hobarts sister lived in one room I over a stable at 701 Brooklyn avenue No one suspected that the Hobart vo i man had any money as she lived 1 plainly and dressed none too well The men had evidently planned their flight for a long time They had repeatedly stupified her with liquor and once they went so far as to administer a drug but i failed in the desired effect They finally awaited a time when she was absent and stole the calico dre s in which the hoarded gold was kept Sel mer and McKenzie are supposed to have gone to Chicago Two years ago while in Chicago Miss Hobart picked up Selmer a street fakir and shortly before Christmas they came to Kansas City |