Show IIOEFTSO IS MISSING I I 1 Sensational Disappearance V of Bank Teller LEFT HIS HOME WITH A GUN V Prominent Member of City Council nnd WellXIi own Official of Wells Fargo 8 Cbs Bank Not Seen Since V yesterday Slorning No Shortage at Bank Has Been Determined and 1 Friends iTear Ho Has Taken His I Systematic Search to Be Slado in Hills Today A A Robertson City Councilman nud payingteller of the Wells Fargo V 6 Co bank disappeared from his home Jn this city yesterday morning as completely com-pletely as though the earth had opened I tlgated theywere found lo bo without foundation Tho fact that the Councilman Council-man went off with a rule leaving his I watch pin and monuy at home gave rise to the belief that he had committed suicide On the other hand other friends slated that he had plenty of money and that he was dressed for along a-long trip through the hills and the fact that hc did not report lo the bank was thought to have special significance r Other friends fear that he has become deranged and wandered ort Into the I hill ORGANIZED SEARCH TODAY Shortly after 10 oclock last night the I police and the Sheriffs office were notified noti-fied of the disappearance nnd at once began a scaich for the missing man They obtained no clue whatcvei Arrangements Ar-rangements were made last evening ny which sixty soldiers from Fort Douglas will begin a sjatenmtic search of the hills this morning In addition to this many of Mr Robertsons friends will Join in the search and the police and Sheriff will do all In their power lo solve the mystery Until more light la I thrown upon the matter people In general gen-eral and the friends of the missing man In particular arc suspending Judgment Judg-ment PROMINENT CITIZEN Alexander A Robertson has been in Salt Lake about twclvo years most of which time he has been payingteller In the bank llu has also been connected connect-ed with other financial Institutions so that he IK I thoroughly well known to a wide circle of people In addition toils to-ils business connections he is i now i r v ii y I u V i V V A A Robertson and swallowed him up He left his home No 1072 East First South street at 820 in the morning ostensibly for The bank He told the servant girl that if he was telephoned for from the bank V V to say that he was on his way and Hint he would be down on the first car l A few minutes later a little girl who V knew him saw him on the north side of East Brlgham street and that is the last known of him CAUSED GREAT SENSATION Councilman Robertsons disappearance disappear-ance In such a mysterious way caused consternation among his friends It c was made known to a number of his I close friends early In the day and a i 6 arch was at once Instituted Not a I fact was obtained up to a late hour that would throw any light upon the mystery r mys-tery The prominence of the man In the politics and business of the city his wide acquaintance among all classes class-es and the mystery surrounding his diGappearance htlrrcd the community V last night as no recent event has 1 stirred It and every man met with had his own theory for the solution of the problem V PECULIAR FEATURES There arc many things peculiar about V the matter In tim first place when Mr Robertson left home in the morning morn-ing he took with him a rifle antI a y number of cartridges If he were gobS go-bS dhoctly to the bank this In JtHClf would he strange it Is also slated that ho wore a pair of leggings when he left his home as though he were golnj on a trip He also left his watch his V pin and a smnll sum of money at the houec when he left tt1 SEARCH I3Y FRIENDS s But the fact hardest for those who know the man best to explain is that the L t-he went away alone Councilman Ii 3lohcrtson was above all social In hhs 1 Instincts lie was one of the most 1I 0 companionable of men and It was very rare for him to he acen alone The supposition Is given out that he went Tiorlh over the hills by the way of lie City cemetery or cant by the way of I VV Fort Douglas Acting upon this cuppo i nltlon friends searched the bills to th i north and east of the city throughout through-out a good portion of the day and until IY late In the evening 1 but no trace of lihn was obtained A canvass of the city brought a like result V CASHIER DOOLYS STATEMENT John E Dooly cashier of the Wells Ijugo Co bank was unceasing In hla efforts throughout the day to get sonic trace of his missing payingteller and late at night gave up the search with o as llttlo satisfactory evidence an any 4 one else l Mr t Robertson bus been th F3 payingteller of the bank for the past ttn yearji He wan bonded Mr Dooly ays In guaranty companion and his t accounts have > been vurllkd up to the c 3oth or May and found lo be correct to j V mat time Naturally one thought that V4 occurred to sonic was that Mr Uob < rtaon might havo absconded Mr y 0011 was < iuo8lloiied upon thin point t All IP would nay wns that It could not V bo dKonnlnod In I cue day whotlur the accounts were straight or IJIU p VARIOUS THEORIES t The air last night was full of rut ru-t mora and conjectures but when invca serving his third term in the City Council where he has been a very active ac-tive and influential member His intImate Inti-mate knowledge of city affairs and lie method of doing business in the Council Coun-cil made him a power in the transaction transac-tion of the citys business He had no family of his own and was mILking his home with Mr and Mrs Willard S Ferris nt No V 107 East First South street Friday evening he was out with a party of friends and gave no Intimation Intima-tion of any kind that he contemplated any unusual action |