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<blockquote data-quote="bruin" data-source="post: 1052085" data-attributes="member: 12587">Boston Globe&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp; September 15, 1926&nbsp; &nbsp; B12Authorities in Boston are still searching for a man who disappeared over a month ago.&nbsp; Police say that Richard Upton Pickman, an artist living near Newbury St., was declared missing after his maid reported he had apparently not been in or near the house for a week.&nbsp; The last time she saw him, she claims, was just a few days before the tremors struck Boston at their usual time near the end of the first week of August.&nbsp; According to Miss Bethany Williams, &quot;The last time I seen 'im was back before the ground shook a bit.&nbsp; He'd been actin' odd for o'er a half year or so.&nbsp; Back before Thanksgivin' a bit he was readin' your paper one mornin',&quot; she told this writer, &quot;then he goes off an' talks to someone, comes back an' gathers all his paintin' stuff and books an' heads off with it somewheres.&nbsp; Ever since he'd been out of the house a lot, sometimes not there at all for days at a time, and then, like I says, he never shows up again after all them ground-shakin's came.&quot;The police state they currently have no leads about where Pickman went with some of his belongings.&nbsp; They speculate that he must have hired out an artist's studio somewhere, but most of the owners of the typical studios designed for such pursuits denied having rented such a studio to Pickman.&nbsp; Inquiries among the art community in Newbury Street have thus far been inconclusive, though police say that Pickman had an odd reputation for being obsessed with vile and vulgar drawings that scandalized many regulars at the Boston Art Club.&nbsp; Pickman's father, Jonathan Pickman of Salem, was not able to provide any clues to his son's whereabouts, but noted that only one of his son's paintings was found in the Newbury Street house.&nbsp; All the other paintings, as well as some rare books that had long belonged to their family, were apparently missing.{Scrawled in the margin of the clipping, a note is written in the same handwriting as Renard's list: &quot;What do they mean by these tremors?&quot;}</blockquote>

[QUOTE="bruin, post: 1052085, member: 12587"] Boston Globe September 15, 1926 B12 Authorities in Boston are still searching for a man who disappeared over a month ago. Police say that Richard Upton Pickman, an artist living near Newbury St., was declared missing after his maid reported he had apparently not been in or near the house for a week. The last time she saw him, she claims, was just a few days before the tremors struck Boston at their usual time near the end of the first week of August. According to Miss Bethany Williams, "The last time I seen 'im was back before the ground shook a bit. He'd been actin' odd for o'er a half year or so. Back before Thanksgivin' a bit he was readin' your paper one mornin'," she told this writer, "then he goes off an' talks to someone, comes back an' gathers all his paintin' stuff and books an' heads off with it somewheres. Ever since he'd been out of the house a lot, sometimes not there at all for days at a time, and then, like I says, he never shows up again after all them ground-shakin's came." The police state they currently have no leads about where Pickman went with some of his belongings. They speculate that he must have hired out an artist's studio somewhere, but most of the owners of the typical studios designed for such pursuits denied having rented such a studio to Pickman. Inquiries among the art community in Newbury Street have thus far been inconclusive, though police say that Pickman had an odd reputation for being obsessed with vile and vulgar drawings that scandalized many regulars at the Boston Art Club. Pickman's father, Jonathan Pickman of Salem, was not able to provide any clues to his son's whereabouts, but noted that only one of his son's paintings was found in the Newbury Street house. All the other paintings, as well as some rare books that had long belonged to their family, were apparently missing. {Scrawled in the margin of the clipping, a note is written in the same handwriting as Renard's list: "What do they mean by these tremors?"} [/QUOTE]

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