Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-28
THE MISSING MAIDEN.
a Milwaukee Mystery Which De-
"a fies Solution.
A Burglar Stopped by Bullet-A New
York Man Who Was Making Money
Official Crookedness IN the
-.-- Postofiee Department. /
OTHER IsFRAcTIoNs OF THE LAWS.

MILWAUKEE, October 27.ZzNot the slight
est clew has yet been obtained OF tne
whereabouts or possible fate of little Mar
garet mot Sophia, as telegraphed last night
Hennecke. The search OF assignatlon-
houses and houses of bad repute generally,
made by the police last night, resulted uni
satisfactorily. The mystery surrounding
the case battles the police, and indeed
everybody who gives the matter attention.
That little girl should disappear sudden.
" and mysteriously from one OF the most
prominent parts of the city, part Tree
from jostling pedestrians. yet always
largely traversed during the hours OF Day
light, without being seen by anyone, Is
simply astounding. And that sueh Is re-
ally the case makes it look as If the eartn
had opened and swallowed her. To-day
the city has been generally searched by a
number of intimate friends OF the family.
Thousands of descriptive handouts
\ have been ~distributed from nouso ~ =
house. and all of the children attending
public and private schools have been not-
fed of the disappearance, and asked 10 Keep
a sharp lookout for traces OF the missing
one. If Maggie Hennecke was really 40,
Quoted, then she must have been splflteo
ont of the CITY. either by rail or steamboat,
Yesterday afternoon, or during the early
hours last evening, and the search Will
have TO be prosecuted elsewhere than IN our
midst. There is bare possibility that she
NAV have suicided under a sudden attack
of melancholia induced by study, but the
snicide theory is a stretch of Imagination
because of the extreme youth OF the glrl.
Then, again, it is barely possible that sne
NAV have met q strange and mysterious
death in one Of the numerous pltlaiIs
known TO exist in the nelghoorhood Oh the
German. English Academy.
Late this afternoon it was learned that
little Maggie was seen walking eastward on
National avenue by lady who knew her
we'll. and afterward man accompanied by
a girl answering her description was seen
boarding the Ais train for Chicago at the
National avenue station. These clews will
immediately be followed up, with the ex-
pectation OF finding the missing child IN
Chicago,
Exciting Chase after Burglars.
Elk RIVER, MINI, October 27.-The store
of Noryal e. Wheaton was burglarized last
night. The safe was blown open and its
contents taken, together with 81, 900 OF silks
and laces. This is the fifth time the store
has been burgarized within two years. A
posse of armed men was Immediately Or
eanized determined to capture the bur
glars. About the place where the burglars
were seen a search c0mmenceu tnaG result
ed in the capture of the game. G. w. Hay
den and l.. Davis heard II. P. Burrell cal,
and found on running to him that he had
started two fellows out of a marsh. Burreli
captured one burglar. He offered no resist
ahce. The other started on run, with
HAYDEN in hot pursuit, at whom he fired
twice with revolver. Not needing a
command to halt two shots were
fired in the air to intimidate him. Hay
den found he had to shoot him, which he
did. The fellow dropped, and when Hayden
got to him he was on his back trying TO
reload his revolver, which he gave up, He
was taken to the Sherman house, where
Drs. Whittemore and ScobOria examined
the wound. They found the ball had
entered the right thigh behind, and pass
ing through the bone had produced COM
pound fracture and passed out in front one
inch below the groin. Amputation is i'm
possible under the circumstances, and the
mans recovery is very doubtful. He gave
his name as ". J. Sheridan, and said he
had no friends or relatives who cared Tor
him or for whom he cared. The uninJured
robber was met at the outskirts OF the town,
as his captors were taking him in, by an
excited crowd. He was givena choice either
to show where the goods were or hang. He
chose the former proposition, and the goods
were nearly if not all recovered.