Omaha daily bee., 1885-10-16
BLUFFS AND TIE BORDERS.
A Travelling Doctor and His Mysterious
Hunt for a Missing Niece,
AvETERAN REPORTER AT TABOR.
\ Gang Trying to Rob Township
Treasurers-A Wedding and a
Robbery Gatherings Of
the Bees News Net.
He Found His Niece.

a short time ago u man appeared in
this city giving his name as DR.. +. j.
Cummins, of indianapolis, and repre-
scented that he was in search of u young
lady, Il niece Of some other relative of
his, who had mySteriously disappeared
from kcarncy, Ncb. According TO his
story the young lady had been living
with her grandparents in Illinois, and
when he came west to look after his
business, he being a hair doctor, she
accompanied him to Kearncy. He was
called away TO Grand Island to testify in
some case in court, and on his return he
found that the young lady had disap-
pcarcd. He said he had been
hunting for her far and near,
and he advertised in the BEE,
and used other means of finding her
whereabouts. He represented that he
had spent large sums of money in the
search, and in response To advertise
mcnts had received letters from all di-
rcctions, Zach correspondent thinking
that he had seen u young lady answering
the description. He said that lie had
learned that she had come to Omaha on
Il certain train, the conductor OF which
had been quite attentive to her on the
cars, and from this he jumped to the con.
clusion that the railway man had sOmc
thing TO do with her disappearance, and
so wrathy was he ut this that he threat
cncd to meet the conductor as he came
in from his next run, and shoot him on
sight. When asked u day later why, he
did not shoot, he explained that he had
found out more about it, and concluded
that he did not have proof e ough to war
rant him. He said the last heard from
the young lady was Il letter from
her dated mt Omaha. asking
that her friends should come
TO her relief ut once, and from the tone
of the letter he Judged that she was under
some sort of restraint, and hurrying to
her mail forwarded to Lincoln. He went
there, and hunted in vain for any trace
of her. He was loud in his promises of
reward, and the amount of money he
would spend to get a sight ut her, and
this was his constant theme of talk. 1t
seems that the other day he found in
Omaha, the young lady, whom he was
Garfield house. According 10 the story
told by him to n BEE reporter, she re-
fused to 90 home To her aunt, although
he offered her 81, 000 cash. In the course
of his story he said, Il can't take
her with me: / am unmarried
and travelling about the country
in the interest of my business"
The whole affair had an air of mystery
about it, and it is not made any clearer
by the feet that DR.. Cummins, on the
evening after finding his niece in Omaha
and her refusal to go home with him, ar
rived at one of the hotels here, accompa-
MED by Il young lady, and registered as
"Dr. Il. j. Cummins and wife, Indianap-
oils, " and took Il room, which they occu-
pied until the next day, when they were
given a gentle intimation by the propri-
ctor that they were no longer very wei
come sojourners, and they took their de-
parture. For Il single man with a niece
to suddenly find her, and then in Il few
hours appear with a wife ut the hotel of
II neighboring city, rather complexities
the story and eXcites curiosity as to the
real facts.