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Show SEEK SUPERINTENDENT AND MISSING FUNDS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. J 5. Anxiety Is felt here over' the disappearance of Robert Rob-ert EIHh, superintendent of the Armltage orphanage at San Mateo, a. charitable Institution In-stitution on whose directorate are the names .of many of the peninsula's wealthy residents. Coincident with the disappearance disappear-ance of Bills there was Initiated bv the directors a search for funds' amounting, it Is said, to nearly ?30Ci0. This money represented the earnings of 114 orphans, who during the summer outings were employed em-ployed on' various .ranches as berry-pickers. berry-pickers. Many of the children, for whom homes have since been found, have written Mrs. William G. Hitchcock, treasurer of the orphanage, asking for their pro rata; Tt was learned that Ellis, who Is said to be the son of a Philadelphia Episcopal clergyman, clergy-man, had left his orphanage accounts "in g6od shape, but there was no trace of the i separate fund. 1 |