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Frank Tucker
Missing since January 28, 1927 from Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana
Classification: Missing




Vital Statistics
  • Date Of Birth: about 1869
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 58 years old
  • Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8".
  • Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Thinning gray hair; blue eyes. Medium build.


Circumstances of Disappearance
Tucker was last seen in Warsaw, Indiana on January 28, 1927.
It is suspected that the 58-year-old clerk at Breading's Cigar store met with foul play on his way home from work that night. His habit of carrying a large sum of money with him at all times gives cause for suspicion. When Tucker disappeared it was thought that he had $4,000 worth of cash and checks on him.
After Tucker's disappearance law enforcing officers were able to get two confessions from men who said they were implicated in the murder of Tucker. Officers obtained the confession of four men for conspiring to rob Tucker prior to January, 1927. No conviction was ever obtained nor was a body ever found. One man was tried for murder, but the trial resulted in a hung-jury. A second trial brought forth a verdict of not guilty, and the accused was set free.
He was last seen by Charles Armington on that wet and slippery Friday night. Armington had been down to the depot to mail a letter. Coming up Lake street, he saw Tucker in the middle of the street, turning up lake from Center street. They talked briefly, Arminton walking on the sidewalk and Tucker in the street. At the Christian church corner, Armington went to his parents' home where he and his wife were visiting. Tucker walked on up Lake street to oblivion.
Tucker did not turn up for work on Saturday morning. Bob Breading thought this rather odd. Tucker was always prompt. When Frank didn't show up by 9:30 a. m. two men went to his house to see what was wrong. They found his bedroom undisturbed and his bed untouched. He apparently had not been home at all. A check of the neighborhood revealed that the neighbors did not remember seeing Frank come home. He had left Breading's about 8:30 p. m. Armington had seen him before 9 p. m.
A few days later a cap with blood spots was found in an alley off East Main street. Frank Tucker's twin brother, Fred, who worked at Phillipson's, identified it as Frank's cap. A private detective was hired by Tucker's estate to find clues. A posse searched the rivers and lakes area meticulously for Tucker but still no evidence was turned up.
Rumors through the years reported Tucker's being in Cuba, Canada and out west, but none of these have been verified. Tucker had told a friend that he could disappear from Warsaw and no one would know where he was. It is possible that Tucker did just that. He had plenty of time to go from Pike street to the Pennsylvania railroad station, watch to see if anyone was on the platform, climb on the late train and leave Warsaw.
Tucker has never been located.
 
anthrobones said:
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1881dmin.html


Frank Tucker
Missing since January 28, 1927 from Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana
Classification: Missing




Vital Statistics


  • [*]Date Of Birth: about 1869
    [*]Age at Time of Disappearance: 58 years old
    [*]Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8".
    [*]Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Thinning gray hair; blue eyes. Medium build.


Circumstances of Disappearance
Tucker was last seen in Warsaw, Indiana on January 28, 1927.
It is suspected that the 58-year-old clerk at Breading's Cigar store met with foul play on his way home from work that night. His habit of carrying a large sum of money with him at all times gives cause for suspicion. When Tucker disappeared it was thought that he had $4,000 worth of cash and checks on him.
After Tucker's disappearance law enforcing officers were able to get two confessions from men who said they were implicated in the murder of Tucker. Officers obtained the confession of four men for conspiring to rob Tucker prior to January, 1927. No conviction was ever obtained nor was a body ever found. One man was tried for murder, but the trial resulted in a hung-jury. A second trial brought forth a verdict of not guilty, and the accused was set free.
He was last seen by Charles Armington on that wet and slippery Friday night. Armington had been down to the depot to mail a letter. Coming up Lake street, he saw Tucker in the middle of the street, turning up lake from Center street. They talked briefly, Arminton walking on the sidewalk and Tucker in the street. At the Christian church corner, Armington went to his parents' home where he and his wife were visiting. Tucker walked on up Lake street to oblivion.
Tucker did not turn up for work on Saturday morning. Bob Breading thought this rather odd. Tucker was always prompt. When Frank didn't show up by 9:30 a. m. two men went to his house to see what was wrong. They found his bedroom undisturbed and his bed untouched. He apparently had not been home at all. A check of the neighborhood revealed that the neighbors did not remember seeing Frank come home. He had left Breading's about 8:30 p. m. Armington had seen him before 9 p. m.
A few days later a cap with blood spots was found in an alley off East Main street. Frank Tucker's twin brother, Fred, who worked at Phillipson's, identified it as Frank's cap. A private detective was hired by Tucker's estate to find clues. A posse searched the rivers and lakes area meticulously for Tucker but still no evidence was turned up.
Rumors through the years reported Tucker's being in Cuba, Canada and out west, but none of these have been verified. Tucker had told a friend that he could disappear from Warsaw and no one would know where he was. It is possible that Tucker did just that. He had plenty of time to go from Pike street to the Pennsylvania railroad station, watch to see if anyone was on the platform, climb on the late train and leave Warsaw.
Tucker has never been located.


wow what an interesting case!! ill have to see if i can find out anything on the case, like, how long had it been since he made the remark that he could dissapear before he acctually did?
 
Frank Tucker
Missing since January 28, 1927 from Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana
Classification: Missing
Vital Statistics
Date Of Birth: about 1869
Age at Time of Disappearance: 58 years old
Height and Weight at Time of Disappearance: 5'8".
Distinguishing Characteristics: White male. Thinning gray hair; blue eyes. Medium build.

Circumstances of Disappearance

Tucker was last seen in Warsaw, Indiana on January 28, 1927.

It is suspected that the 58-year-old clerk at Breading's Cigar store met with foul play on his way home from work that night. His habit of carrying a large sum of money with him at all times gives cause for suspicion. When Tucker disappeared it was thought that he had $4,000 worth of cash and checks on him.
After Tucker's disappearance law enforcing officers were able to get two confessions from men who said they were implicated in the murder of Tucker. Officers obtained the confession of four men for conspiring to rob Tucker prior to January, 1927. No conviction was ever obtained nor was a body ever found. One man was tried for murder, but the trial resulted in a hung-jury. A second trial brought forth a verdict of not guilty, and the accused was set free.

He was last seen by Charles Armington on that wet and slippery Friday night. Armington had been down to the depot to mail a letter. Coming up Lake street, he saw Tucker in the middle of the street, turning up lake from Center street. They talked briefly, Arminton walking on the sidewalk and Tucker in the street. At the Christian church corner, Armington went to his parents' home where he and his wife were visiting. Tucker walked on up Lake street to oblivion.

Tucker did not turn up for work on Saturday morning. Bob Breading thought this rather odd. Tucker was always prompt. When Frank didn't show up by 9:30 a. m. two men went to his house to see what was wrong. They found his bedroom undisturbed and his bed untouched. He apparently had not been home at all. A check of the neighborhood revealed that the neighbors did not remember seeing Frank come home. He had left Breading's about 8:30 p. m. Armington had seen him before 9 pm.

A few days later a cap with blood spots was found in an alley off East Main street. Frank Tucker's twin brother, Fred, who worked at Phillipson's, identified it as Frank's cap. A private detective was hired by Tucker's estate to find clues. A posse searched the rivers and lakes area meticulously for Tucker but still no evidence was turned up.

Rumors through the years reported Tucker's being in Cuba, Canada and out west, but none of these have been verified. Tucker had told a friend that he could disappear from Warsaw and no one would know where he was. It is possible that Tucker did just that. He had plenty of time to go from Pike street to the Pennsylvania railroad station, watch to see if anyone was on the platform, climb on the late train and leave Warsaw.

Tucker has never been located.

Investigators
If you have any information concerning this case, please contact:
Warsaw Police Department 574-372-9515

NCIC Number:
Please refer to this number when contacting any agency with information regarding this case.

Source Information:
YesterYear in Print
The Doe Network: Case File 1881DMIN

LINK:
http://www.doenetwork.us/cases/1881dmin.html
 
Wow. $4000 back then was a whole lot of money. Not that it isn't now, but you know what I mean.
 
http://www.fulco.lib.in.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/1927.pdf

Thursday, July 21, 1927
Warsaw, Ind. July 21 - Albert EMMONS, aged about 56, well known Tippecanoe and Warsaw resident, familiarly known as “Rat” EMMONS according to unauthoritative report current in Mentone and Warsaw today, is dead at Detroit or some place in Michigan in a hospital where he was taken following an injury. One report says he was shot while another has it that Emmons died following an operation for ulcers of the stomach. Warsaw newspapers were able only to learn that Mr. and Mrs. Frank WARREN of Mentone, yesterday received two messages, the first that the latter’s brother was injured and in a hospital some place in Michigan and later that he had died. The messages came from South Bend where Emmons lived. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Warren were called and left for South Bend and Michigan. Mr. Emmons was well known in this city where he was called “Blacksmith.” He was held for questioning in the death of Frank TUCKER, Warsaw cigar store clerk and Ray “Foxy” FLYNN at Rochester.
 
What is a clerk in a cigar store doing with that much ca$h / checks? Was it his? The store's? Even if it was the store's - that is a LOT of money for 1927 small-town Indiana. Nothing is mentioned about the source of the money which I find really odd.
 
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Frank Tucker
  • Case Classification: Missing
  • Missing Since: January 28, 1927
  • Location Last Seen: Warsaw, Kosciusko County, Indiana

Physical Description
** Listed information is from the time of disappearance.
  • Date of Birth: Unknown
  • Age at Time of Disappearance: 58 years old
  • Race: White
  • Gender: Male
  • Height at Time of Disappearance: 5' 8
  • Weight at Time of Disappearance: Unknown
  • Hair Color: Thinning gray hair
  • Eye Color: Blue
  • Alias(s) / Nickname(s): Unknown
  • Distinguishing Marks/Features: Medium Build
  • Dentals: Unknown
  • Fingerprints: Unknown
  • DNA: Unknown
Clothing & Personal Items
  • Clothing: Unknown
  • Jewelry: Unknown
  • Additional Personal Items: Unknown
Circumstances of Disappearance

It is suspected that the clerk at Breading's Cigar store met with foul play on his way home from work that night. His habit of carrying a large sum of money with him at all times gives cause for suspicion. When Tucker disappeared it was thought that he had $4,000 worth of cash and checks on him.Tucker was last seen by a witness who saw him in the middle of the street, turning up Lake from Center street. They talked briefly, the witness walking on the sidewalk and Tucker in the street. Tucker walked on up Lake street never to be seen again. Tucker did not turn up for work on Saturday morning. This was odd, as Tucker always was prompt. When he didn't show up by 9:30 two men went to his house to see what was wrong. They found his bedroom undisturbed and his bed untouched. He apparently had not been home at all. A check of the neighborhood revealed that the neighbors did not remember seeing Frank come home. He had left work about 20.30. A few days later Tucker's cap with blood spots was found in an alley off East Main street. A private detective was hired by Tucker's estate to find clues. A posse searched the rivers and lakes area meticulously for Tucker but still no evidence was turned up.

After Tucker's disappearance law enforcing officers were able to get two confessions from men who said they were implicated in the murder of Tucker. Officers obtained the confession of four men for conspiring to rob Tucker prior to January, 1927. No conviction was ever obtained nor was a body ever found. One man was tried for murder, but the trial resulted in a hung-jury. A second trial brought forth a verdict of not guilty, and the accused was set free.

Rumors through the years reported Tucker's being in Cuba, Canada and out west, but none of these have been verified. Tucker had told a friend that he could disappear from Warsaw and no one would know where he was. It is possible that Tucker did just that. He had plenty of time to go from Pike street to the Pennsylvania railroad station, watch to see if anyone was on the platform, climb on the late train and leave Warsaw. Tucker has never been located.

Investigating Agency(s)
If you have any information about this case please contact;


  • Agency Name: Warsaw Police Department
  • Agency Contact Person: N/A
  • Agency Phone Number: 574-372-9515
 
Frank Tucker Disappearance

Picture of Frank at link above (scroll to bottom)
Frank comes across as a loner who craves people's respect and found a way in loaning people money. He was not very particular who he loaned money to, charged no interest, and at the time of his disappearance a bunch of people owed him money. No cigar store clerk has that kind of money to throw around and I doubt a bank is going to loan him money unless Frank was not entirely honest about what he intended to do with it.

I believe what happened to Frank was the four guys, who had attempted to rob Frank before, succeeded in robbing him and during the robbery accidentally killed him and disposed of the body.

Two other theories I have is that Frank borrowed money from a loan shark and couldn't pay it back so he took off. I also wonder if his estranged wife could have had something to do with. She was a suspect however she was out of state at the time and never charged. If you consider she may have been wanting to get a divorce and realized her husband was throwing money away she may have hired some guys to get some of that money.
 

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