Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-08-08
THE GlRLWAs'NT KID-NAP.
PED.

THE GIRL WASN'T KID-NAP-
PED.
The report that kidnapped
girl had been captured frOma wag-
on in front of the Jacobs House at
noon ON Friday by officer Hacken-
berger created some excitement on
Main street. Men hastened to the
Jacobs House. A substantial wag-
on to which was hitched two large
sleek mules stood in front of the
hotel. The wagon was occupied
by a woman and four children and
IA girl about Ia years of age and
two men. 1t was the girl that the
officer was after. He had been
telephOned from LewistOwn by
James Harmon to detain the girl
that she is his daughter and had
been enticed away by the people
in a blue wagon. Hackenberger
took the girl to his home to await
the coming of her father. The
people in the wagon were a well to-
do looking party. They had a
good outfit throughout. The large
wagon had a canopy over it to keep
off the sun and they seemed to be
we'll provided for quite an exten-
sive tour. In addition to the wag-
on and its outfit they had good
horse and buggy. The men said
their name Is Stine, that they are
from Painter, Miffiin county, and
are on their way to place near
Shippensburg, Cumberland county
and that the name of the girl with
them is Dessa Harmon: that
she had come to their place sever
al days ago and wanted place to
live. They had taken her in and
that when they started for Cum
berland county on Friday morning
she desired to go with them and
they were satisfied that she should
and that was all of it. Officer
Hackenberger did not attempt to
detain them and they went their
way. They were not gone long
till James Harmon the girls father
came, and he was in an indignant
frame of mind over the thought
that his daughter had been taken
away from her friends and parents.
He says the family that had his
daughter is not named Stine. lie
says Stines live in the neighbOr.
hood, but the people who had tax
en- his daughter are named Stuck
1t is probable that it was a good
thing that the Stucks had gone
from the town before Harmon came
Harmon is a powerfully built mar
and weighs 275 pounds and look!
like a man of courage and in th'
excitement of the occasion might
have acted rashly of course. He i!
a skillful iron worker and the ia
ther of eight children and he ant
his wife were in deep distress whel
they learned that their Dessa ha(
disappeared so singularly. HI
lives at Logan and last Wednes
day his daughter had gone to visi
his friend Joseph McMullen a
Maitland and it was understood
that she might stay with Mrs. Nc
Mullen some time as she had ex
pressed desire to have the cir
live with her awhile. Bessie say
that when she got to her friend
place Mrs. McMullen had a CIR
and the girl went with her t
Stuck's near Painter station, VIII
told her they would be moving o.
Friday and would 60 nearby wher
her father lived and that the
would let her off the wagon an
she could go to her fathers house
She says when they came to wher
they should have left her off the
drove fast and she could not leav
the wagon. They consOled hel
They told her they would tax
good care of her, dress her We
t and send her home in the fall
l When the Stucks drove past LIZ
, gan some one noticed Miss Har
non in blue bed wagon and he il
3 formed Mr.. Harmon her father
l Where the wagon was going was
matter of conjecture, but th
: father made a ten shot when b
i sent telephone message to the o.
t ficer at MifflintOwn. Father an
daughter were escOrted to the raj
e road on Friday evening by Officl
Hackenberger. They were ham