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Show DENVER WRITER STILLMISSING Fails to Report Upon Handling of Large Estate DENVER. Colo.. March 18. State rangers. Boy Scouts, civil officials and friends of Alva A. Swain of Denver, ; widely known politician newspaper writer and trustee of the Colorado Industrial In-dustrial School for Boys, who has been missing since Thursday, spent all of last night and today hunting .for him without success. Investigation a to his whereabouts was started when he failed to appenr before County Judge l,uxford to report re-port on his administration of the estate es-tate of the late L N. Stevens of Philadelphia, Phil-adelphia, of which Swain was executor. execu-tor. Swain waa removed from that position po-sition by Judge Luxford for alleged negligence In performance of his duties." du-ties." The value of the estate Is estimated es-timated at $200,000 The only traces so far found of Swain have been the finding of his automobile au-tomobile 13 miles east of here late Thursday and a report from Bennett, Colo . 30 miles east of Denver, that a man answering Swain's description had boen seen there. Tho man was not detained, however. Mrs Swain, according to the police, believes her husband has become temporarily tem-porarily mentally deranged as the result re-sult of an Illness from which he has been suffering for several weeks. |