Envelope reads "Capt Thorvald Brown & Edward J Engs Jr 5/26/30. Photograph shows a group of men standing outside. Two in the center of the frame stare at something above their heads. One wears a hat and glasses. Both wear suits. Alameda County Superior Courth Judge E.W. Engs disappeared on May 16, 1930. He had been presiding over a very controversial bribery trial involving members of the Livermore sherrif's department when he was taken ill on the evening of May 15th. His disappearence caused a nation-wide stir, and thousands of people turned out to search for the ailing man all over the Bay Area. The story made the front page of the Oakland Tribune nearly every day from May 16th until may 26th when his body was found at the bottom of a cliff in Oakland. Engs had only recently been appointed to fill a vacancy created by Judge Homer Spence's move to the appellate court. Until the time of his Alameda county appointment he had been a Superior court judge in Sierra county. He had been under treatment for "nervous disorders" throughout the seven week duration of the bribery trial. On May 26 Judge Engs's body was found in a wooded area near the corner of College and Broadway by Paul Bonham and Jack Maher. The two searchers had followed their own intuition and continued to search near ther small Oakland resevoir near Engs's house while police and thousands of other searchers had given up on the site. One of the men, Bonham, had already made a name for himself by finding the body of another missing man in the late 1920s. Upon discovery and coroner's inspection Engs's death was declared an accident, and it was speculated that the disoriented man had dressed and wandered out of his house in the middle of the night. The path along the top of the cliff was reported to be dangerously near the edge and on trecherously unstable ground. The difficulty of the search was blamed on the Judge's grey-green clothing which made the body blend into the bushes in which it lay. Information taken from Oakland Tribune articles from May 16-26 1930.