An Editor Disappears

MYSTERIOUS DISAPPEARANCE OF A FORMER YPSILANTIAN.

Ypsilanti, Mich., Aug. 1.-- (From a staff correspondent.) - W. B. Crocker left his father-in-law's residence Saturday morning at 8 o'clock and said he would be back to pack his trunk in time so he and his wife could catch the train for Eaton Rapids where Mr. Crocker is editor and proprietor of the Eaton Rapids Record. He did not return and nothing particularly strange was thought of it. His wife went there alone and not finding him there paid off the men.

For some time he has complained of severe pains in his head and it is thought that his mind may have become effected. In an interview with his brother-in-law, Chas. M Hemphill, he stated to the reporter that there are no financial reasons why he should have left in this way. While here he sent a draft of $12 and a draft of $6 to friends he had been doing business with in payment of accounts which had become due. He had $8 in his pockets when he left. Nothing has been heard of him since he left and it is thought that his mind may be effected. He was seen to board a west bound train at Ann Arbor Saturday in an apparently demented condition and trace of him was lost at Chelsea.