Marshall County independent. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1897-1902, 1899-08-04

The following special kilograms ap
peared in the Chicago Chronicle of this
morning:
Bourbon, Ind, July 30-The many
rumors and clews TO the whereabouts
of pretty Nellie Berger, who was en-
ticed away from her home ten days ago
by man calling himself Johnson I'M
der promise of remuneration if she
would only stay two weeks in ROches
ter, eliminated in a great man hunt to-
day, and the various roads are posted
like army camps. If the people are
convinced that strange man, who
gives his name as James Sullivan, who
was captured today, is the sbductor his
chances for life are few. The missing
girls parents are so Frustrated they can
give no aid aside from showing her
picture and pieces of the dress she wore.
Saw Her in the Woods.
Thursday Mrs. Mckee, of Bloomings-
burg, a hamlet near here, was picking
berries in a dense swamp near here
when she came upon Nellie Berger sit
ting on stump with her clothes in a
tattered condition and her eyes swollen
from crying, while alongside Of her was
misunderstanding man. Nellie cried
aloud when Mrs. Mckee was seen,
whereupon the man slapped her and
with an oath said: shut up, you'll cry
worse than that before you get through
with me-" This so frightened Mrs.
Mckee that she ran home, told the
neighbors and tried 10 get them to hunt
for the girl, but they did not do so at
once.
Friday small squads of men went out
but returned at night. having found no
trace of the girl or her adductor. Sat
urday 300 men and boys searched the
woods and one man found bloody
handkerchief and tie, which were sup
posed to have belonged to the girl.
! This morning there were thousands of
persons in town and at II o'clock line
of march was formed a mile long and
the whole country searched.
| Suspicious stranger is Captured.
| A suspicious looking strange man
was captured, whose stories were so
conflicting that he was taken to town
4 onA fho onrry nrnmd xpoc nply prauop-
ted from lynching him by the stern but
cool WORDS of Graham Rose and the
girls father and Mrs. Mckee of the
Identity of the man. The crowd was
not satisfied with this and demanded
that ne be put in decent clothes, as his
scarcely hid his nake1ness. The pris
to stable near by and tore the clothes
from him forcibly, putting on the new
ones. The excited men were armed
with all conceivable kinds of death
dealing weapons and did not attempt
to hide the ropes they carried. Wher
the captive emerged from the baIn the
Nellie?" rent the air, but they were
hushed by Mrs. Mckee, who said
"People, that may be him, can't say
Don't do anything rash.' The prisoner
Was put under strong guard and taker
to Jail, where he will be held on sus
picion
sketch of Missing Girl.
Rochester, Ind, July 30-Nellie Der
ger is only Is years old and had spot
less reputation when she lived III thl'
city. She Is of very modest demeano
and no one who knows her will believ'
that she is voluntarily sbsentIng her
self from home. Her parents are wei
to do, having recently inherited severa
thousand dollars. There are three sis
tiers, and Nellie sometimes worked TO
the neighbors and spent one year in thu
family of Attorney G. w. Holman il
Rochester.
The man who took her away has beer
tracked from Michigan, where he i
wanted for horse stealing, and it i
learned that he stopped several times oil
the way to hire girls, always saying h'
lived a few miles away and wanted
them in his home. At West Liberty
Ind, he succeeded In securing girl
who when sixteen miles from home dis
covered his designs were improper ant
fought her way out of the buggy ant
escaped. Tonight it is feared by sOm'
that he has escaped from the wood
with the aid of an accomplice. and tina