Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-04-14 | Page 20 | U. S. Writer Missing since 1914 May be Man Seen in Jungles of Brazil

U. U S. S Writer Missing Since 1914 May Map MayBe MayBe Be Man Ilan Seen in Jungles of Brazil BUENOS AIRES April 14 H ff A R-A A possibility that thal Ambrose Bierce American writer and adventurer who disappeared mysteriously in 1914 might be the white man seen by byl Stephan Swiss trapper in the thel Brazilian jungle was discussed here today oday said he believed the man was Colonel P. P H H. Fawcett missing British explorer But a former soldier of fortune here who asked that his name be withheld on account of his present position told of hearing from an aged guide guide named Johnson in 1924 that on an expedition into the interior several years before he encountered a white whiteman whiteman whiteman man named Bierce or Pearce with the Indi Indians The man he said was fairly talland tall talland talland and thin with a fair mustache and long hair reaching to his shoulders He carried spectacles but seldom wore them the guide lIide said and the Indians called him The Four Eyed Man The man gave e a Johnson a bundle of oC manuscripts he said asking him to mail them to an address scribbled on them but the manuscripts rotted from the hide in which he carried them and the address was undecipherable able when he returned to civilization The narrator of ot the talc tale here said Johnson showed him some of the rotted rotted rotted rot rot- ted manuscripts and that they appeared appeared appeared ap ap- ap- ap to have been written between 1913 and 1916 Ambrose Bierce disappeared in Mexico in 1914 There have been stories stories sto ries that he died di-cd in battle at Torreon Mexico with Pancho Villas Villa's rebel forces that he was seen in South America after aUer his disappearance in Mexico that he was driven from Villas Villa's camp and shot and that he deliberately walked to death by head heading I ing into the enemy lines Jines at Chihuahua City He lie would be more than 85 years old if he were alive now