Mysterious Disappearance
Very little is known about his later years; however, an article in the February 13, 1896 edition of the Salem (Ohio)Daily News states that Brader, who was living at the Canton Infirmary at the time, had received news that he had inherited the sum of $4000 from family in Switzerland. Just before receiving the funds, Brader had borrowed money from a friend in Canton in order to pay his way to Alliance to attend a funeral. When he returned to Canton he obtained portion of his inheritance and told friends he was going to repay his loan. He apparently never showed up to do that and was never heard from again. The article mentions that it was believed that he might have been robbed and murdered or perhaps had a fatal asthma attack. A follow up article in the Canton Repository, dated Feb. 16, 1896, states that the director of the Stark County Infirmary said that Brader had been looking into passage back to Europe and that he thought that Brader probably had returned to his homeland.
In a Swiss court record from 1901, Brader is officially declared "lost and missing without a trace" since he had not been heard from since June 17, 1900. The fortune had not been collected at that time.
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