Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
THE HENNECKE MYSTERY.

News from the Alleged Abductors-Fecu-
liar Movements OF tIl- Father-AnOther
Missing Woman.
Especial Telegram TO the Globe.
MILWAUKEE, Dec. 15.-This morning
Sheriff Rugee received the following inter
esting letter relative to the Hennecke case:
HASTINGS, Neb., Dec. Ii, 1SS2.-MR.
RUGEE, DEAR SIR: Yours at hand. In re-
ply would say that l have left my business
entirely, and have worked Eth all my
power day and night to ferret out the great
mystery, and to bring the child to her
parents. A part of the time
it looks very dark to me, then
other new encouragement nerves me on.
l have neither stopped for danger nor for
money. and have seen some very rough
times. Excitement ran high, but have
been in the cause of right and the law,
and have not feared to go to the front.
And if at last every effort shall fail can
say that have done my duty here below
| in this wonderful work, as it seems to be
| a most skillfully laid plan and to have
been accomplished without suspicion till
| at last one of the party, for the sake of
| $50 lost his grip, and being unsuccessful
in an attempt to get another to throw sus-
| picion off at Plattsmouth and finding
that he was in that I penned
him down till he confessed of assisting in
the taking away of little MaggieHennecke.
He 81. FL. Barden) gave me a thorough
description of the other two men who
helped in the affair, as also of the team
The men I have fill the description in
| every respect, as also does the team; one
| owns to being with Barden On the road
He claims that there was only his sister
with him, but says he thinks he saw the
girl on the road. They will be brought te
trial here as soon as Mr.,Hennecke is here
I see by the papers that some people
here (meaning Milwaukee and Chicago, n
doubt have bad opinion of me in this
terrible affair. or rather the de
tectives. They should investigate before
making assertions.
Signed GEo. E. Brown.
The developments out ives
are of the most startling character. Citi
zens grasp eagerly any fresh tidings from
the seat Of so much news of mysteriou
character. The following telegram wa
received at late hour this afternoon from
Lincoln:
''Mr. Whitehead arrived here safely
presented his recommendations and wa
we'll received. since then he has been work
ing the case quietly and has received al
the aid possible to give him by well-to-d
citizens. He has developed nothing O
startling consequence different from
Browns work"
| MILWAUKEE, Dec. 15.-R. D. Whitehead
of the Humane society, who went to Ne
braska to look after Maggie Hennecke, tel
egraphed to the father of the missing gir
to-day that nothing could be learned il
Hastings, and that Brown, who claims t.
have found three abductors, had gone t
Iowa. Whitehead left Hastings for hom
to-day in company with detective
They will stop at Shenandoah, lowe
} to look up Brown. The re
ceipt of the dispatch was a
} first denied by Hennecke, who shortly at
} forwards left the city, giving instruction
to keep his departure secret. It is sur
missed he also went to Iowa. Positiv
tidings are not expected before tomorrow
Nothing is heard from the old man Heiser
formerly of Carpeles, Heiser & Co. Tn,
third mysterious disappearance is that o
Mary Nelson, an attractive married won
an aged twenty-five, who left on Nov
81, leaving a husband and three children
one of which is nursing babe. 1t i
thought she eloped.