Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 53, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1909 — WAS HERE LOOKING FOR REV. A. C. BAND. [ARTICLE]

WAS HERE LOOKING FOR REV. A. C. BAND.

Chas. V.Moon, Policeman, of Warsaw, Thought He Had Track of Missing Man. Chas. V. Moon, a police officer from Warsaw, was here over Monday night. He was searching for Rev. A. C. Rand, formerly a Methodist minister, and for the past four years a resident of Warsaw. , Rand mysteriously disappeared on March 4th, when he notified his wife that he was going to Wabash on business. No positive trace has been found of him since that time, although the officer that was here is positive that he traced him to Monon, where W. D. Handley, the druggist, is certain he saw him a week ago last Sunday. Rand was a Methodist minister /or several years during his residence in Illinois and was a great student. He married a wealthy young woman and ’ moved to Warsaw, buying a farm of 400 acres near there and a fine residence, which is said to be one of the best furnished in Warsaw. He had a large library and when he was not looking after his farm interests he was studying. Last summer he had a sun stroke and this is evidently the cause of a temporary abberation of the mind. When, he left Warsaw he did not wear his best clothes and he took only S2O in money with him. He is 38 years of age, 5 feet 8 inches in height, and weighs 145 pounds. He has jet black hair, blue eyes, long slender hands, a narrow No. 7 foot, and has a scar between the thumb and finger of the left hand. Information concerning him should be sent to Rev. E. H. Montgomery, of Warsaw. Mr. Moon’s object In coming to Rensselaer was to go to St. Joseph’s college, as it is thought Rand may try to take up his home around some college even though he has to work for a living. He is a learned man and is passionately fond of books.