Show W WANDERING PREACHER RETURNS TO FRIENDS NEW NEW NEWYORK YORK Feb 7 After After five years' years absence the Rev Edward A. A Waldo who formerly was connected with the University Settlement soc society ety of This city has been heard from at at San Francisco Although detectives have searched this this this- country and Europe Europe Europe Eu Eu- rope Mr 1 Waldo himself after the long silence followed his mysterious disappearance disappearance disappearance from New York in the sum sun summer mer of 1896 first sent word wOId to family fam fam- fly ily who had long ago given him up as dead and his his' brother George B. B Waldo an artist of this city has started for San Francisco It was to his aged father Simon S. S Waldo one cne of the leading business men of New Haven Hven Conn that the missIng missing missing miss miss- ing minister sent the letter Realizing their probable fears of a Joke he had taken the precaution to have have the letter signed by a San Francisco minister with whom he is temporarily staying Dr nr Waldo left the headquarters of the New tv York University Settlement society on the afternoon of July 13 1896 and between there and his home he disappeared Detectives traced him himas as far as a Mississippi river town where he was supposed to have boarded a boat for New Orleans but there the clue ended Once Orce before Dr Waldo had a a. similar experience He labored in Chicago b before be before be fore coming to this ci city ty and while doing do do- ing mission work there he disappeared He had been raising a large fund forthe for fori the purpose of providing provisions for fox forthe forthe the poor of Chicago Some weeks later ateI Dr Waldo was found wandering aimlessly aini aim lessly about the streets of T Tallahassee e Fla Fia It was three weeks' weeks before before- he could tell his name |