Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-07-23
PEOPLE WHO HAVE VANISHED.
Six Person Now On the List-Three
of the Mysteries Solved
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The epidemic of disappearances continues
To the five cases mentioned in The jour
nal yesterday four more were added dur
ing the day. OF the original 9uartette.
however one mystery, that OF Mrs. Henry
MaIoney, the aged domestic who left her
employers home under peculiar circum-
stances. was solved and the disappearance
OF 1s-year-old Susie OBlenis turned out
to be nothing more than though;less
failure os the young woman to notify her
parents that she was going 10 stay all
night at the house of q friend
Alice Coffman. the young girl who disap-
peared from her home on Euclid avenue.
has been located at the home OF d relative
In the country about ten miles out of the
There is still no trace Of W c. Read.
the old man who mysteriously disappeared
July S. Had his disappearance been report
ed at police headquarters on the l0th inst.
his fate might have been determined by
this time On that day boys playing IN a
vacant lot. covered with weeds. on Fift.
heap which contained discarded clothing.
a number Of photographs and over hun
dred letters. The photographs. six in mum,
Der. were inclcsed in an envelope addressed
/, 10 John Murphy, Eureka kas-- and among
the letters were several addressed TO '"
c. Read. The boys notified Officers Greeley
and NcCosgroye and they examined the
| md and read several OF the letters Ihey
are positive that they were addressed 10
reads gsad spr nGa paid little atten
ton to them. Later, when the case was
| reported az police headquarters. they re-
| visited the lot. but were unable to md
| single letter of the many that were there
| on the 10th The photographs were ex-
! am.ned by Mr.. Reads son, but ne said fhat
| he was positive they had never been IN
| his fathers possession
| The police are investigating clue gwen
by George n. Newton, OF Independence.
| who writes Chief of Police Hayes thar
| an old man answering to the description OF
| Read passed his home On the morning OF
the 21st journeyirg southward: The pc
destrian he states. appeared 10 De walking
| with no definite aim.
Mrs. McDonaId. whose residence is at
, Thirty-ninth and Booth streets, was regis
tered at the Central police station yester-
day as missing. She is 6 years old. very
frail and when last seen. or the Southwest
boulevard. near the Belt line bridge was
accompanied by a 9-year-old boy named
| Fred House.
The Il-year-old son Of II. Metzser. of
West Ninth street, is also being sough,
for by the police. Last Tuesday the boy
told his mother that he was going swim
ming and has not been home since. He !:
| five feet six inches tall. weighs 13o pounds
has dark hair and large brown eyes ant
a scar on the left side of his upper lip.
| Mrs. Mary Mahoney, the aged domestic
who disappeared from the residence OF hel
| employer Arthur C. Powers. at iols Eas
Ninth street, last Wednesday. has beer
Detectives o'Hare and Dwyer located
| her at the home of friend. Mrs. Hooley
| at Fourth and Harrison streets. yester
| day She appeared very much surprised
when Informed that her disappearance ha'
caused her friends uneasiness. and at mrs
| declined to give any explanation Tor ne
| peculiar conduct, beyond saving tnat sh
| desired to make a change. The detective
| are convinced. however, that she was IN
| object of the machirations of an embry
| Napoleon OF finance whose palms itcned U
handle her gilt-edged securities and gov
. ernment bonds. and that her mysIeriou
Ieavetaking was a part of her plan Z
, circurnvent the scheme. She also admitte
that the story of the note purperting I
| have come from her husband. whicn state
that he was seriously I'll at the city nos
! ritaI had been concocted by her IN orde
| 10 enable her to carry her plans into exc
| cution without the necessity OF going lnt
minute expla nations. -.
Bessie O'Blenis of 1G11 Oak street. ais
| dieappeared for the night Thursday nlen
| hut this mystery is now at an end Inurs
, day biithe and gay as prepossessin
l | maiden of 16 summers should De. ana az ~
. rayed in a bewitching red-dotted musii
| costume she set out from her nome !
, | visit a friend The society she encounter
was congenial. and she remained at ne ns
!. | friends house for the night. Eariy ye:
| terday morning her distracted parents n.
4 | ti(ied the police of her disappearance: an
: one hour later they telephoned that sh
n was at home. happy and -contented.