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Show DROWNING IS FOLLOWED BY MYSTERY Considerable mystery surrounds the sudden disappearance of Joseph Melo-gram, Melo-gram, the young man who had so narrow an escape from drowning at Lagoon Sunday afternoon, July 2S, when his sweetheart, Miss Srama oYungquIst, went to her death from nn overturned boat. Melogram has suffered much grief alnco the accident apd It Is believed that his mind has given away unde3 the strain and that he has wandered off, perhaps to his detith. The last seen of Melogram was nn Thursday He worked at his job in the tailoring department of the Manhattan Man-hattan clothes shop during tho forenoon fore-noon and at 11.30 asked Proprietor D. L Turk if he might go to lunch a little earlier, as he was unusually hungr He left his tailoring tools, a sltcase partially filled with clothing cloth-ing and two days' wages due him. Mr Turk has not seen tho man since. At the Boylo rooming house, ou Washington avenue, where Miss Youngqulst lived provious to her death, Melogram is said to hao called Friday afternoon and asked permission to apek up the dead girls' effects. The permission was granted and he passed some time In carer fully gathering tho clothing and trinkets of his sweetheart and packing pack-ing the same Into her trunks He scorned heart-broken and those who observed him feared that he was on tho point of losing his mind. He Etated that ho would return Sunday for the girl's things and left At Melogram'8 rooming place on Twqnty-fourth street the landlady is fearful that he ha3 wandered away to his death, possibly b) suicide He has not been seen in his room since Thursday and his belongings remain re-main untouched as ho left them. A tailor employed at Kuhn's store stated today that someone had seen Melogram near the railroad tracks on Seventeenth street Friday morning and that ho was dressed in old clothing cloth-ing This person believed that Melogram Melo-gram wa5 endeavoring to catoh a ride out of town on a freight train, his actions indicating it to some extent. Mr Turk is confident that Melo-gram's Melo-gram's mind has given way, as he acted queerly Wednesday, tho day beforo be-foro he disappeared. Ho went to lunch and did not return until the next morning, explaining that he had laid down on hlB bed and had fallen asleep Thursday morning it was Impossible Im-possible to conerse with him, his mind apparently wandering away from questions put to him. The police will be asked to search for the missing man. |