The St. Charles herald. [volume] (Hahnville, La.) 1873-1993, 1885-06-27

body must notice, defes all probability.
Such an incident put into work of tic-
ton would be pronounced absurd.
O'Neill, very well-known boot and
shoe dealer on Sixth avenue, middle
aged, man of family, sober, intelli-
gent habits, prosperous, disappeared
twelve or fourteen years ago, and lett
no more vestige than if he had lcaped
intS blazing lime-kiln. He jumped
on a passing horse-car to go down
town on business and that was the last
seen of him by his friends. Liberal re-
wards were offered for any intelligence
of him, but none was obtained. He
was engulfed in impenetrable mystery.
Seven or eight years ago well-to-do
grocer in Third avenue named Digman,
if we remember, started in the evening
to visit the house of a friend, few
blocks away, intending to be absent
but half an hour. He had an
appointment with another friend at his
own home the same evening andahe
was one of the most punctual of men.
Neither friend ever saw him. After
parting with his wife, to whom he had
been married less than six months, he
became invisible, so far as known, to
mortal eyes. He was a man of high
animal spirits, regular habits, warm
affections and of a thoroughly practical
turn. No clue was got to his disappear
ance, and its obscurity has deepened
with the passage of time.
Ralph Keller, young man who had
lived in California and had come East
to earn his bread by his pen, after
many adventures and varied cXpc-
riences in different parts of the country,
disappeared some twelve years ago in
the most enigmatie manner. He was
at one time an assistant of William ID.
Howells on the atlantic, and had de-
cided talent for description. But he
was so much of rover that he could
not be content to stay in one place.
He contributed to the newspapers here
and published various articles in the
magazines. He finally decided to make
a trip to Cuba, and he was traced, it
was thought, to the Havana steamer,
but after that he could be traced no
further, even inferentially. Many per-
sons doubted that he ever went aboard
the vessel or quilted New York. Div
ers opinions were formed about his
disappearance-som asserted that he
had destroyed himself; others that he
had been murdercd-but not one of
them rested on a reasonable basis He
was very amiable and agreeable, bub-
bling over with sanguineness, and had
like most of his tribe, too little money
to excite the cupidity of rascals
There has never been any solution to
the mystery.
George A. Laxer's disappearance is
too recent to require particularization.
Nothing could be more mysterious or
impenetrable. A girl named Lima
Grietman, daughter Of German cigar
maker, disappeared from Avenue G
some years ago and was never after
wards heard of or from. She was
nearly thirty. quite plain, and not very
intelligent. Nothing about her made
it probable that she could have been
abducted. She was employed in a
shop in Eighth avenue, and set out to
go there in the morning. She never
reached there, and was not seen by
any one acquainted with her after leav-
ing her fathers house. We might
name any number of cases if we had
space.
Young women frequently disappear
here, and if they belong to the poorer
classes not much effort is made, from
lack of means, to discover their fate
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