5th year more activities!!!

Complete with the correct form of the verbs in brackets.

One summer afternoon in New York in 1875, while his wife (prepare)............... dinner, Mr Levi Gamin left his house (buy).............. some tobacco. He never returned. Sixty years later in 1935, the New York Times printed a story about a man 'dressed in strange old-fashioned clothes'who (step)................ in front of a car while crossing Times Square. He (die) ......................... instantly.
The dead man (carry)................... no identification and there was nothing in his pocket except some bank notes from the year 1875. The police had no idea who the man was or why he (wear)................. such strange clothes, until a police officer decided (check).................... the missing persons file for 1875. In the file was a description of the dead man exactly. It was then that the question began.
Why had Mr Gamin disappeared in 1875? Where (be)........................... he ...................... for the past 60 years and why (not change)................. his appearance ..................?
Unfortunately the answers to the questions (not find)....................... yet.