Was He from Baltimore?

New York, 1895

The body of a man was found floating in Flushing Creek Monday afternoon. It is so badly decomposed that it is unrecognizable and had evidently been in the water about six months. The body was in dark clothes of good material. In the pockets were found a match box with the name "J. G. McShane" engraved on it, and a business card with the name "R. Stuart Littlepage, with Henry McShane manufacturing company, Baltimore, Md."

Tuesday the remains were identified as those of R. S. Littlepage, a traveling salesman for the McShane company of Baltimore, who mysteriously disappeared February 5. He was last seen on the morning of that day on the deck of the steamboat New Hampshire of the Stonington line, on the way down Long Island sound to New York. When the steamboat reached her dock in New York it was discovered that Littlepage was not then among the passengers. His coat was found in his stateroom, with a five dollar bill and letters in one of his pockets. All his other clothing was gone, together with his satchel. Two weeks previously Mr. Littlepage had left Baltimore on a trip to New England. He was returning home when he disappeared.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, NY, June 28, 1895, p. 2.

Finds Wandering Wife After 80 Days' Search

1920

Sight of Husband Restores Woman's Lost Memory.

SAN FRANCISCO, California. — William C. Brown, a grocer, prepared to return to his home here from Los Angeles, following the accidental end of an eighty-day search for his wife and their 2-year-old child, Helen June.

After having hunted thru three States — California, Utah and Nevada — Brown, on the last day allotted for his inquiry, paused to buy a newspaper in a Los Angeles street. Had he not done so, his search would have been futile.

The moment's pause kept him in front of a department store entrance till a woman and a little girl came thru the entrance in the crowd. They were the missing pair.

Not until she faced her husband did Mrs. Brown gain consciousness of where she was or what she had done during the last twelve weeks. She left home while in a state of aberration due to illness. The sight of her husband restored her faculties and she fell weeping on his shoulder.

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Aug. 7, 1920, p. 5.

Disappearance of Mrs. Ketcham

New York, 1895

Mrs. George W. Ketcham, Jr., is missing from her home in Northport. She left late on Wednesday night of last week. Her departure was premeditated, for she took with her all of her clothing, wedding presents, silverware, linen, and everything that she could in any way lay claim to.

George Rainney, a baker, has also disappeared from the village.

—The Long Island Farmer, Jamaica, N.Y., Jan. 11, 1895, p. 1.

Lost Trails

1920

A Department Devoted to Aiding Readers of the Blade in Finding Lost Relatives.

The Blade gladly will publish requests for information of the whereabouts of lost relatives, but cannot inquire for others. Address Lost Trails Editor, W. D. Boyce Company, [their address in 1920].

As soon as you find the person you inquire for, please notify us.

The following inquiries for long lost relatives have been received at the Blade office during the past week:

Mrs. Jane Movety, Shell Lake, Wis., seeks her son, Lloyd Crezo, last heard from in St. Paul, Minn., as a railway man four years ago.

Mrs. Ernest L. Hill, formerly of Hesper, N. D., but now living in Chester, Mont., wishes to learn the address of her son, Ralph Emerson Hill.

Mrs. E. W. Clark, West Huntsville, Ala., asks information concerning her husband, Ernest W. Clark, last heard from in Dallas, Texas, in 1917.

Anna E. Shepherd, box 207, Slovan, Pa., seeks her uncle, Jerry Burgess, who left for Cincinnati, Ohio, fifteen years ago and has never been heard from since.

Mrs. Lee Spain, Gen. Del., Yakima, Wash., seeks her brother and mother, lost from her when she was a little girl. Her mother was known as Sis Floyd and was last heard from near Dabney, Ky., twenty years ago. The writer's maiden name was Vera Floyd.

Brother and Sister Lost.

A. R. Halpainy, 35 St. Hedwigs avenue, Dunkirk, N. Y., is searching for his brother and sister, Raymond and Rose Halpainy. His mother died twenty-one years ago and he was adopted in New York, became separated from the rest of the family and has heard nothing from them since.

Mrs. Inez Allen, Xenia, Ohio, is anxious to learn the whereabouts of her brother, James Kingery, 40, last heard from in Cleveland, Ohio, fourteen years ago.

Mrs. Maggie Hemenway, Rush Center, Kan., would like to learn where her uncles, Ben and Hi Lansing, are located now. They were last heard from in Washington, D. C., forty years ago.

Mrs. Jack Conley, Gen. Del., Omaha, Neb., seeks her husband, Jack Conley, 21, formerly of the 18th M. G. Bn., 6th Division, who disappeared soon after his discharge from the Army in June.

Young Bride Loses Husband.

Mrs. William L. P. Baker, East Point, Ga., asks information concerning her husband, who left home on Nov. 24, 1919, with a promise to write next day, and has not been heard from since. The couple had been married but a year and had had a happy wedded life, and the young bride fears foul play, as her husband left home with a considerable sum of money. Can Blade readers give her information concerning her husband?

D. S. Hounshell, Crockett, Va., is trying to find his brother, Carroll L. Hounshell, last heard from in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1912.

Mrs. Flo Brand, R. F. D. 3, Millington, Mich., is endeavoring to learn the present location of her brother-in-law, Warren Arthur Swindler, last heard of about fifteen years ago at Huron, S. D.

Mrs. Charles Hanson, Rice Lake, Wis.. wants to find her sister, Mary Elf, last heard of at Woodstock, Ill., about sixteen years ago.

Miss Jennie Zackry, 503 Wafford street, Cartersville. Ga., is trying to find her father who left her when she was a little baby. His name is Thomas Zackry; last heard of in Little Rock, Ark.

Bert Siar, 733 Lincoln street, St. Marys, Pa., asks the Blade to help him find Clifford Siar, last heard of in Elkins, W. Va., nine years ago. He is a blacksmith. His mother, Mrs. Nanny Siar, is very anxious to hear from him.

Lost Ones Previously Mentioned.

Mike Bartos. Sought by Mike G. Korman of Sublet, Wyo., his brother-in-law.

Michael J. Dolan. Sought by Mrs M. J. Dolan. Friendship, N. Y., his wife.

Andrew Jackson O'Neal. Sought by Kizzie O'Neal, Quitman, Ga., his daughter.

Ward (full name not given). Sought by Gertrude Gunter, Middletown, Ohio, his sister.

Mrs. Ray Allison. Sought by Mrs. Grace McVey, Mt. Pulaski, Ill., her sister.

John W. Owenby. Sought by J. C. Holcomb, Greenville, Texas, his nephew.

Wade King. Sought by Miss Mary Margaret King, Wyandotte, Mich., his daughter.

Cook brothers, Nathan and Thomas. Sought by James Harrison Cook, Warrensburg, Ill. Mary Elizabeth, a sister, requested to respond.

James Biely, a mute. Sought by Miss Sophia Biely, Iron River, Mich., his daughter.

George N. Neckard. Sought by Mrs. Isaac Neckard, Lebanon, Pa., his mother.

John Eward Shannon. Sought by Mrs. Pete Sutton, Clinton, Ind., his mother.

Relatives of Mable Knox. Sought by Mrs. Mable Knox Bullard, Greensburg, Kan.

Fannie White, nee Loudermilk. Sought by Mrs. Mamie Bray, Sheldon Hotel, El Paso, Texas, her sister.

William Marks Arehart. Sought by Mrs. Effie Coons, Baxter Springs, Kan., his sister.

John C. Vuncanon. Sought by Miss Linnie Vuncanon, High Point, N. C., his sister.

Husband of Mrs. Ella Jones. Sought by Mrs. Ella Jones, Bokhoma, Okla.

Brother of Miss Elma Hornbuckle. Sought by Miss Emma Hornbuckle, Crossett, Ark.

Herman Wrought. Sought by Charles W. Wrought, Morris, Okla., his son.

J. E. Murphy. Sought by Mrs. Ella Hammer, Bowler, Wis., his sister.

Curtis Winn. Sought by Mrs. Moore, Long Pine, Neb., his cousin.

John Odgers. Sought by Mrs. Elizabeth Northley, Morhland, Utah, his sister.

James V. Lindsay. Sought by Laurie Nutt, Macon, Ga., his sister.

James William Studebaker. Sought by George W. Studebaker, Centropolis, Kan., a relative.

William Cotlin. Sought by Edward G. Paulsen, Swea City, Iowa, a relative.


HEARS FROM SON

Mother's Aching Heart Gladdened Thru Saturday Blade Efforts.

MY SON has been found — and all thru your excellent paper," writes Mrs. C. D. King, Lagrange, Ga., to the Lost Trails Editor of the Blade. "I might never have known he was even living if it had not been for your help, but I am now receiving letters from him every day.

"May I not thank you for helping to relieve a mother's breaking heart, as I had almost given up all hopes, until I learned of the wonderful results achieved thru The Saturday Blade."

—The Saturday Blade, Chicago, Jan. 3, 1920, p. 12.

Note: I made a few corrections through the course of this article. But all the names and places were left the same.

Missing Harry Potter May Be From Michigan

Illinois, 1918

H. L. Oldham Wires Red Cross

Harry L. Oldham, formerly of Decatur but now of Charlevoix, Mich., has wired the Red Cross at Decatur that it is possible the Harry Potter reported as missing by the war department and as from Illinois may be the Harry Potter of that county in Michigan, who was reported killed and whose death has since been confirmed.

Mr. Oldham sent the message because he saw the notice in the Review of the report of the missing of Harry Potter of this state and thought possibly it might have been the one from that district and as he had confirmed the report regarding the Michigan Harry Potter he felt that possibly this would relieve the anxiety of the Decatur relatives of the Illinois Potter.

Mr. Oldham has taken a very active part in the Red Cross activities at Charlevoix.

—Decatur Review, Decatur, Illinois, Dec. 8, 1918, p. 4.

Comb World In Vain for Arnold Girl

Dec. 1915

Relatives Give Up Hope as Five Years Pass Without Trace

Folks Wear Mourning

Disappeared Five Years Ago This Week

Following is the order of Dorothy Arnold's actions December 12, 1910, so far as known up to the time of her disappearance:
11:30 A. M. — Left her home at 108 East Seventy-ninth street, New York, telling her mother she intended to buy a new dress.
12:00 Noon. — Bought a box of candy at Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
2:00 P. M. — Bought a book at Brentano's and had it charged, altho she had between $20 and $30 in her purse when she left her home two hours and a half earlier.
2:45 P. M. — Met a girl friend at Fifth avenue, near Thirtieth street.
2:50 P. M. — ? ? ? ? ?

NEW YORK, Dec. 16. — Five years ago this week Miss Dorothy Arnold vanished so completely that no detective in the world has been able to discover a clew to her whereabouts or her fate.

"What happened to Dorothy Arnold?" is a question that has been asked in every house where newspapers printed in any language are read.

For answer such men as William J. Flynn, now head of the United States Secret Service; Sir E. R. Henry, chief of Scotland Yard; William J. Burns, George S. Dougherty, former deputy police commissioner in charge of the New York detectives; Joseph A. Faurot, present chief of detectives, and Lieut. Grant Williams, who as the director of the New York police department's bureau of missing persons, has investigated thousands of strange disappearances, give the reply that they are at a loss for a way to fathom the mystery.

If Dead, Where Is Body?

Dorothy Arnold was last seen, so far as is known to the police or other investigators, at Fifth avenue and Thirtieth street, on Monday, Dec. 12, 1910. The time was 3 o'clock in the afternoon or a few minutes earlier.

The aged father of the missing girl, who has spent many thousands of dollars to search every city in the world by wireless, cable, telegraph, telephone, mail and detectives, wears as a silent answer to the query of Dorothy's fate a wide mourning band on his hat, a mourning necktie and a suit of black. He is a wealthy importer of French and Russian perfumes.

"She is dead," he said to reporters this week.

"But where is her body?" is the question asked by trained investigators.

"Any morgue keeper in the entire country would at once take notice of a woman dressed in expensive lingerie or clothing," Lieutenant Williams says, in discussing the statistics of his bureau, which show that on the average one woman a year is left unidentified.

Description of Dorothy Arnold.

Dorothy Arnold on Dec. 12, 1910, when she went away from her home, was 26 years old. She was about 5 feet 4 inches tall and weighed in the neighborhood of 140 pounds.

She was of striking appearance; her complexion was bright, her hair was dark brown and her eyes were grayish blue.

She wore a tailor-made blue serge suit and a black velvet hat trimmed with two silk roses.

The hat had inscribed in its lining the name of a fashionable milliner. Similarly, the name of the maker was embroidered on the tailor-made underwear which the young woman wore.

In her hand bag Miss Arnold carried about $20 or $30; yet she asked the clerk in Park & Tilford's Fifth avenue and Fifty-ninth street store to charge a pound of candy, and requested the cashier in Brentano's store to send her father the bill for a book — "An Engaged Girl's Sketches" — which she bought within a few hours after she was last seen by her mother.

Search Made All Over World.

The search for Dorothy Arnold has never been equaled for thoroughness. Here was the case of a mature young woman, highly educated, to a degree literary, and physically strong enough to balk any attempt at kidnaping. She was not in the habit of "slumming" or doing "settlement work," but, on the contrary, was more inclined to afternoon visits to such places as Sherry's restaurant and the Plaza tearoom. Her evenings were mostly spent in the company of her relatives or near friends. For almost six weeks following the disappearance of Dorothy the search was conducted along "confidential" lines. Her father, the descendant of a proud New England family, which traces its lineage back to the landing of the Pilgrims, loathed publicity. Her mother, a Canadian by birth and highly sensitive, equally abhorred the thought of letting the prying eyes of the public get a glimpse into the family circle.

The Man in Her Life.

There was a man in Dorothy Arnold's life. A few months preceding her disappearance the "affair" was such that it became a matter of family discussion. The first act after the young woman failed to respond to advertisements inserted in the personal columns of newspapers was to communicate by wireless with steamships bound for Europe. Then detectives were sent to Pittsburgh, Pa., to find out where George S. Griscom, a 44-year-old engineer, was staying at that time.

Griscom was in Florence, Italy. And there Mrs. Arnold hastened to confront him with the story of her daughter's disappearance. Even at the time of her sailing, the Arnolds were determined not to take any more persons than absolutely necessary into their confidence. Arnold had written to his brother in Germany a letter saying that a "terrible calamity had befallen the family," but they "did not wish to spoil their Christmas holiday by telling about it." As Mrs. Arnold sailed her husband cabled briefly to his brother telling him to furnish her with funds if needed.

Like the public, Dorothy Arnold's uncle and aunt got the first intimation of what had happened on the morning of Jan. 26, 1911, when the story of the disappearance appeared in all the newspapers of the leading cities of the United States and Europe. Deputy Police Commissioner Flynn, now chief of the Secret Service, on the day before told Arnold that his detectives had to have the aid of the newspapers. The "confidential" search had failed.

At the same time that the reporters were asked to aid the family. Word of Mrs. Arnold's visit to Florence and her meeting there with Griscom was kept a secret. "She is too sick to be seen," was the only explanation offered when reporters inquired for her. Two days later, however, it became known that George S. Griscom "was the man in the case." It then became known that the young woman less than two months before she left her family had been in Boston, where, according to the records of a loan company, she had obtained $60 for a quantity of jewelry that had been pawned.

George Griscom was Boston at the time, but if he and Dorothy met there at the time the information was never communicated to the public. It was admitted Dorothy on her return to New York rented a mail box in the general postoffice and that she quite regularly corresponded with Griscom. The letters she wrote him were in his possession the day Mrs. Arnold and her elder son John, saw him in Florence. As she demanded them John Arnold felled Griscom with a blow on the jaw. Then a promise was exacted from Griscom that he would never reveal the contents of the letters. Griscom has until this day kept his word as far as known.

Mrs. Arnold, on entering the lower bay on the steamship Pannonia, received a message from her attorneys and her two sons, John and D. Hinckley, met her at the pier. On their advice she declined to go into any details of her daughter's disappearance. John Arnold, in an interview with the then District Attorney Whitman, six days after the arrival of his mother from Italy, said he was convinced that Dorothy had committed suicide. He did not suggest that she might have met with foul play, nor did he ask for a grand jury investigation of her disappearance.

House in Pittsburgh Raided.

That the family lawyers at first shared with the detectives the belief that Dorothy Arnold bought a box of candy and a book with the intention of passing away time while riding on a railroad train was evident some time after the investigation was under way when John Keith, head of the Arnolds' legal representatives, said he had searched a sanitarium on the outskirts of Pittsburgh which was raided in April, 1913, by the Pittsburgh County authorities, who charged its proprietor with the death of a young woman who had been missing from her home for nearly a year.

A few days after this raid and the mention in the newspapers of Dorothy's name in connection with the investigation of the place, Arnold sent for the reporters and invited them to go thru his East Seventy-ninth street house from cellar to garret. He repeated his belief that his daughter would never be found.

The police records show that of the women who are daily reported as missing there are but few who, under any compulsion, give up the luxuries of homes so that they may wander about as fancy dictates. Some go away because of quarrels, others because they tire of being "pampered" by indulgent mothers, brothers and sisters, and others want to get away from the scene of some lovers' quarrel.

Dorothy Arnold was a girl of romantic ideas. She incorporated some of these in manuscripts, hoping to have them published. She was a graduate of Bryn Mawr, and after her schooling she began writing novels — which were never published.

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Did Dorothy Arnold take her family into her confidence? Has everything been told? Has any evidence been found to point to the theory that she is dead? Could she have been murdered and her body disposed of? Was there a suggested motive for murder? Did she by act or word suggest a reason for leaving home? These questions have been asked by the leading detectives of the world.

—Saturday Blade, Chicago, Dec. 18, 1915, p. 3.

Note: The case was never solved.

U.S. Army Blankets Adorn French Girls

1920

Have Been Made Into Cloaks Since Doughboys Had Them

PARIS, France, Feb. 26. — How the humble Army blanket, protection of the grumbling doughboy, has increased in value from 12 francs to 200 francs, and come to be apparel of French beauty along the boulevards, has been brought to light in Paris.

At a sale of Army stocks, a French grocer bought 2,000 American Army blankets for 12 francs each. He sold them for 11 and 20 francs each to a clothing manufacturer.

The clothing manufacturer made them up into women's cloaks and sold them at 70 francs each to a department store, which retailed them at 180 and 200 francs each.

Voila, la vie chere!


Woman, 102, Walks Miles to Hospital

NEW YORK, N.Y., Feb. 26. — Despite her 102 years Mrs. Fannie Cohen traveled alone and unassisted from her home to Bellevue Hospital, where she sought admission. She is suffering from ailments due to old age. Her home is several miles from the hospital.


Wants Husband Declared Dead

PORT HURON, Michigan, Feb. 26. — Mrs. Alice Reo has brought suit in Circuit Court to have her husband, Capt. Joseph Reo, declared legally dead. Captain Reo was in command of the Government survey boat Surveyor, and last was heard from May 25, 1910, when he left the boat at Cleveland. Mrs. Reo wants to acquire property held by herself and her husband.


Baby Adds Fifth Generation

Kansas Child's Great-great-grandmother Is Still Living

HARTFORD, Kansas, Feb. 26. — A son was born a few days ago to Mr. and Mrs. James Hartenblower of Eureka, Kan. This baby has two grandfathers, one grandmother, two great-grandfathers, two great-grandmothers and one great-great-grandmother.

The great-great-grandmother is Mrs. Mary Ann Rhoads, of Topeka.

$25 Reward for Missing Wife

1911

Editorial Quips

An Illinois husband has offered a reward of $25 for the return of his missing wife. "That's all she is worth," she says. That is love.

The Marquis of Landsdowne's Rembrandt, valued at $500,000, may go into the National gallery and then again it may be brought to America.

A Chicago professor says that lack of money is the bane of wedlock. In the matter of feeling this lack as a bane, wedlock has plenty of company.

Nearly 2,000,000 brook trout fry are ready for planting in Wisconsin's streams. They will probably develop into 2,000,000 fish stories later in the year.

Australians have perfected the milking machine so that it milks a hundred cows in two hours. But the milkmaid will continue to live in poetry.

Flat-wheeled trolley cars and all auto horns are to be regulated in New York.

The center of population, unlike most of the sons of Indiana, remains in that state.

Eagle is Not a Kidnapper

1914

Infant Found, Protected by Dog; Birds are Acquitted of Stealing Baby

Belvidere, New Jersey — Eagles making their homes in the cliffs of Jenny Jump mountain have been exonerated of blame for the theft of two-year-old Michael Dunal, who was missing for 24 hours. The child was found in the woods half a mile from his home. He was unconscious, and his hands and feet were partly frozen.

Young Michael's parents were working in the field and left him on the porch of their farmhouse. When they got home at noon the child and the family Newfoundland dog were gone. Searchers hunted all night, some of them even visiting the eyries of eagles on the mountain, suspecting that one of the birds might have stolen the baby.

A party from Danville came on the child. The Newfoundland dog was standing by and would let no one approach. Mr. and Mrs. Dunal had to be called before the dog would give up its threatening defense of the baby. It is believed the child will recover.

Comment: The Dunals might have a problem today with leaving a two-year-old on the porch and going away to work in the field until noon.


Marriage of Daughter Declared Legal

Denver — The marriage of eleven-year-old Martha Elizabeth Wilkins to Harvey M. Pugh, a boy of fourteen, was declared legal by Judge H. P. Burke. Annulment proceedings had been brought by the boy's father.

Enoch Ardens in Russia

1906

Many Returning Soldiers Reported Dead Find Their Wives Remarried

St. Petersburg. — Among the Russian prisoners arriving from Japan there are many who have been reported dead by the general staff and whose relatives had been so informed. The unexpected reappearance of these men is causing all sorts of strange family complications, as many wives, under the impression that they were widows, have remarried.

In the province of Perm, where a returning soldier found his wife already the mother of a child by a new husband, he took the matter to the village priest for settlement. The first husband offered to acquiesce to the new conjugal arrangement if he received $25, but the second husband was unable to pay the money, and it was finally arranged that the wife should return to her first husband.

However, as the second marriage was considered legal, and as official documents were at hand to prove the apparent death of the living husband, it was decided that the child born While the first husband was away must legally be registered as belonging to the second husband, and that it must be cared for by him.


Luxury for Left-Handed

Right handed men are no longer the only ones who can, if they so desire, avail themselves of the convenience of a mustache cup. There are now made mustache cups for left handed men as well. These cups come in at least two sizes and in a variety of styles as to decorations. Not nearly so many left handed as right handed cups are called for, but the left handed man can now be supplied.

Gertrude May Have Been Stolen by Gypsies

Indiana, 1909
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Northern Indiana News and Gossip (only pieces of the column follow)

Gertrude, the 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Dan Austin, near Mishawaka, has been missing for several days and it is feared she has been stolen by a band of gypsies encamped near the place.

Mrs. Michael Gray, of Bluffton, was arrested and fined for whipping the child of a neighbor.

Mrs. R. A. Brown, of Huntington, who has been spending the summer at Northport, Mich., was attacked by a large bald eagle a few days ago, but succeeded in beating the huge bird of before it had inflicted more than a few scratches upon her.

When Steven Cotton, a Wells county farmer, was stricken by heart trouble and sank unconscious in the field where he was plowing Thursday, his faithful dog summoned assistance by running to the Cotton home and barking, then darting back to the field where his master lay. Mrs. Cotton went to her husband's assistance and he soon revived.

George Young, for sixteen years proprietor of a meat market at Huntington, has sold out to Louis Diffenbaugh, who is moving the fixtures of the establishment to Fort Wayne.

Peter Flum, 89 years of age, died Saturday at his home northwest of Osslan. He was a pioneer resident of Wells county, having located there in 1849, and was widely known.

The ax used by J. Henney, an Avilla liveryman in splitting wood, struck a clothesline, was deflected and cut an extensive gash in Mr. Henney's scalp that required five stitches to close.

Major N.N. Boydston claims the distinction of being the only resident of Warsaw to unfurl the American flag on Thursday in honor of the discovery of the north pole by Dr. Frederick Cook.

--Fort Wayne Weekly Sentinel, Fort Wayne, Indiana, September 8, 1909, page 11 (partial).

Girl, 20, Missing; Legless Man Held

Divorced Bride Disappears After Passing a Night With Her Former Aged Husband.

Two things Helen O'Leary said just before she disappeared in Chicago a few days ago are the expressions upon which her father and mother are basing their theory of her whereabouts. She said:

"I'd rather commit suicide than have any more said about me and Eugene."

"Mother, I can just feel him influencing me. I can just feel him drawing my brains out of my head with his own."

And so they arrested Eugene - "Col." Eugene Edward Seymour, 60, legless and huge-handed, at one time strange mate of the 20-year-old girl who continues to fascinate her, altho she has been divorced from him.

The legless "colonel" was released upon his own recognizance and upon his promise to appear in court at a later date. Meantime the hunt is on for the girl.

Had Girl in Power for Years.
"For several years we have been worried to death," said the missing girl's stepmother, "over the spell this man Seymour seems to exert over her.

"We allowed her to marry him two years ago when she insisted that she loved him. But she came home after five days, was reconciled again, lived with him twenty-eight days and then stayed home again. She was afraid of him, she would tell him, and related revolting tales. I begged her to get a divorce and forget him.

"After she was divorced I got desperate sometimes about Helen trying to run around with boys she didn't know, and once she was mad about a married man. I took her to a physician for a mental examination and he told me that she had the mind of a 12-year-old - that she was weak and could not exert her own will. Which is true."

Tells Strange Story and Disappears.
Helen disappeared on her way to church on Sunday. On the previous Thursday she had vanished and came dashing in, says her stepmother, with a strange tale of having smelled a heavy perfume while she was downtown and knew no more until she woke up in a hotel in Milwaukee, with her ex-husband beside her. She stole away while he slept, taking $87 from under his pillow.

"I believe no such story," said her father wearily in court. "There was no heavy perfume and she was not kidnapped. I guess she went of her own accord."

"She did," said Seymour. "We had decided to be re-married. She told me she thought she had wronged me by getting a divorce and we wanted to get married at Waukegan. We got there at 5 and the courthouse was closed, so she suggested we go on to Milwaukee. The next day, under pretext of buying some newspapers, she left the room, and I found she had gone to Chicago."

--The Saturday Blade, Chicago, May 22, 1920, page 3.