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Santa Fe, New Mexico, December 14th, 1916.

Clyde D. Armour of Sioux City, Iowa, is believed to have been murdered somewhere between here and

wagon mound by a mysterious unknown motor companion, who later posed as armor in Santa Fe,

secured money under the name, and vanished. Armour is five feet, 11 inches tall, athletic build,

light brown hair, blue eyes, clean-shaven, weight

160 to 165 in his 30s. When last heard of, he wore a business suit and cap, dark flannel shirt,

collar fastened with pearl buttons, and a dark tie. He was chief clerk in the passenger depot of the Northwestern Railroad at Sioux City.

Roy and Glen Armour of Sioux City, Iowa, arrived here today in search of trace of their brother,

Clyde D. Armour, who started for Fresno, California from Denver, Colorado, October 22nd in an automobile,

with a traveling companion name unknown, who responded to an advertisement in a Denver paper.

The car was an eight-cylinder Oldsmobile.

Armour was heard of at Trinidad the same evening and next day at

Wagon Mound, New Mexico, where he was reported to be with the unknown man. On the night of October 23rd,

a young man answering the description of Armour's traveling companion arrived in Santa Fe, registered at a local

hotel as Clyde D. Armour, wired Armour's relatives, and succeeded in getting them to send

him $500.

He was about 25 years old, 5 feet 9 inches, light hair and well groomed.

Armour's brothers say the handwriting of the telegrams, copies of which they saw here, is not that of their brother.

They are confident the mysterious stranger murdered their brother.

They learned today that the imposter was last seen in Albuquerque on October 30th or 31st, when he sold the Oldsmobile to Harry Hammond and Odie Dyer of that city

and boarded a train for California.

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