Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
THE HENNECKE MYSTERY.
News from the Alleged Abductors-Pecu
liar Movements of tn Fathef-AnotIle
Missing Wnman.

News from the Alleged -abdactors-Pecu-
liar Movements of tn 7Eathef-AnotI,er
Missing W"man.
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. Is, 1SS2.-alR.
RUGEE, DEER SIN: Yours at hand. In re-
ply would say that have left my business
entirely, and have worked with 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. bat 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 MaggieEennecke.
He q. 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 Oh the road.
BE claims that there was only his sister
with him, but says he thinks he saw the
girl on the road. They will be brought to
| trial here as soon as Mr..Hennecke is here.
see by the papers that some people
here (meaning Milwaukee and Chicago, n D
doubt) have a bad opinion of me in this
terrible affair, or rather the de-
! tSctives. They should investigate before
| making assertions.
Signed GEO. E. BROWN
The developments out west
| are of the most startling character. Citi-
zens grasp eagerly any fresh tidines from
the seat of SO mnch news of mysterious
character. The following telegram was
received at late hour this afternoon from
Lincoln:
"Mr. Whitehead arrived here safely,
! presented his recommendations and was
| we'll received. since then he has been work
| ing the case quietly and has received all
the aid possible to give him by well-to-d
| citizens. He has developed nothing of
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 girl
to-day that nothing could be learned in
Hastings, and that Brown, who claims to
have found three abductors, had gone to
Iowa. Whitehead left Hastings for home
to-day in company with a detective.
They will stop at Shenandoah. Iowa,
to look up Brown. The re-
ceipt of the dispatch was at
first denied by Hennecke, who shortly af-
forwards left the city, giving instructions
to keep his departure secret. It is sur
missed he also went to Iowa. Positive
tidings are not expected before tomorrow.
Nothing is heard from the old man Heiser,
formerly of Carpeles, Reiser g. Co. The
third mysterious disappearance is that Of
Mary Nelson, an attractive married wom-
an aged twenty-five, who left on Nov.
| 81, leaving husband and three children.
one of which is nursing babe. 1t is
thought she cloped.