Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1894-08-15
READS LIKE FICTION.
Fad Blns, Of Omaha, Thinks He Has
Found a LOlS Lost Brother
7nr boy KIDNAPPED YEARS AGO


CHAMBERLAIN, :. d., Aug. l5.-A
,isfy which would furnish tbs iounja.
bstloni fora novel IL told by Frod Hans,
sfUmaha, who few days ago went TO
the Black Hills for the purpose u
Identifying youag msu whom lac
believes to be- younger brother, kid.
ra1ped ifom their home In Saunders
unity, Neb., eighteen year, ug'.
While Ia the Black Hill, Mr.. Hans
visited Rapid cry aud told his remark.
auo story.
The Hans family during 1875 AMI
lsl8ua.dut In Saunders county where,
moon one occasion, hls father was the
ruHcipal witness on the part OF the
saIs against man named Willard
Randall, who was convicted anu sCut
DO tue slate pvniientiary Tor a poriJd NJ
len years for cuiting the throat Ut a
vpman. The father Of willard Ran.
usIl WIS., considerably worked ~ over
tue Iart old mau Hans plaJoI IN
He prosecution VI nis sou, and
threatened on more than one occasion
70 make him (Haus) suffer for the part
Hans had a number Of children, amOug
thrm uslng u boy something over one
year ola. One DAY tue little one was
kidnapped anu for some time no trace
OF hin could he found. Randall three
weeks later committed suicide, Leaving
= statement that he hRd taken the hoy
aud disposed VI him to the Indians.
Huutquent search revealed the fact
- .HaN a LW
pIllf ~ his death WAS untrue la regard
60 the boy being among thu Indians,
o. it was agctItalnud, after dillgtut
starch, tnat Randall had made a trip
u Cheyenne, WyO,, Immediately after
tHu uuRppearance Of the boy on July
g. 1870 aud there disposed Of HIM.
a.. Hans stated that while M Rapid
Guy Oh July II, ils03, he met johnny
uni, who rssidtH on Spring Creek,
lUm lac at once recognized a. his
..Ug lost brother sud No Informed him.
-I sure was he that he told young
llau that he hal scar on the back OF
u.s head, iIUm burn. Uuon hart
tagiGg of HE hat, the scar was founi
exactly ~ described by HAus. After
Questioning JOHNNY ABOUT his pafebts
and residence, he Btcsme convinced
NhA lN AAN ANAAh NAhA Nv hAA ANNh'A
Tor Torso many yeats. He then went -
Cheyenne AMI after diligent inquiries
found that John Hafps family T. ldtd
at Cheyenne At the time his brother
was KIDNAPPED aud traced 10 that city,
aud that MI. Hart was engaged In
ffelghling In the Black HIS. lie
traced tho family from Cheyenne 10
Fort Pierre, aud back 10 bpfing Creek
Ia the Black Hiils, whofo they located
on ranch IA 1879 aud have stuce o..
sided. From nuighbOrs there he
learned that the boy was about two
years old when the family established
lurir home there. AccOf ling ~ the
story told by Mt. Hans the boy would
now be In his nineteenth year, while
johnny Haft says lac II but seventeen.
THIS and other things assisted IN fur.
turf completing matters. IL was
AgtUuI between hguH aud Hart that
tue young man should accompany
Hans 10 Crawford, NUU,, where the
mother oi Hans resides, anu there
learn II possible the truth Oi the
matter.
John Hart, who has acted the part VI
father 10 sue young man ABOVE men.
toned, doclHt"s inst tue young man IL
DIE F0u aud that there Aru two women
living Ia his vicinity who knew the
boy before he was able 10 walls. Great
Interest has teen created, owing 10 the
prcullafit o. 0i tho case anu the state.
msut VI Mff. Hart looked forward q
win great interest