Show WANDERER NOT HEARD FROM IN 35 YEARS now new york may 8 by tho the appointment of charles P F a wealthy restaurant eur as administrator of tho estate of his brother john philip who disappeared from his now new york horne home in 1872 official recognition was tokea taken of the death of a wanderer whose whereabouts had not been known to his family in 35 years john philip was filled with a spirit of adventure and lie he went west to carvo carve out a fortune for a year lie no wrote homo home regularly and then his letters stopped the last one was from mississippi since then brothers and sisters in now new york have continued their efforts to find him alive or obtain evidence of his death but since the day in 1873 when he posted a let tor ter to his mother from a little town in the south no trace of john philip has haff been discovered the estate consists of personal property amounting to left by john father as his part ot of tho the paternal fortune three brothers and two sisters who survive will share in the estate the trip on which he disappeared was not the first adventure john thing had set out upon without notifying the family in 1861 before he was of age he enlisted in a zouave regiment known as children tout but his bis father obtained his discharge on the ground that ho be was war a minor A vear year later he enlisted in the navy and served throughout the war john had no funds when lie left home in 1872 his brother speaks alts of him in his petition as of a reckless and roving disposition fearless and unafraid of hazardous occupations and risks lie he was at all times the petitioner says on loving and familiar terms with the family and when over he asked for financial assistance lie he always received it |