Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-02
CLARK MAY BE TRICKY.
His Mysterious Disappearance Excites
Suspicion in Grinnell-Murder Not

His Mysterious Disappearance Excites
Suspicion in Grinnell-Murder Not
Believed.
Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, July 2.-While those who
knew Horace Clark here will not believe
that any accident has happened to him
there is yet considerable interest in his
mysterious disappearance from a lake
steamer few miles out of Chicago
Clark did not leave a very creditabe
reputation in Grinnell, and there are
those who believe that this move is
only an effort to free himself from his
second wife, whom he married in &
somewhat sensational manner only a
short time ago. His first wife, now liv-
ing in Grinnel, has been divorced from
him several years.
The Record Herald of Chicago today
says:
Horace Greeley Clarks strange and
sudden disappearance from the decks
of an excursion steamer in midake
Sunday night is the mystery that is
puzzling persons in three cities. Attic
sharp inquiry has been pushed at every
point where information that might
solve the strange affair could develop
there has been nothing gained.
"In Chicago, whence he started with
his wife for the pleasure trip across the
water, the officials of the Barry Trans
portation Company and the missing
mans relatives have done their utmost.
AT Milwaukee, where he would have
arrived Sunday night if he We're still
on the boat, the local police took up the
Wi A
Ind, the home of Clark's wife before
made to CLEAN some grain of comfort
ing tidings, and still the mystery re-
mains without solution.
CLARK, according to the records of
the Barry steamship offices, left here
Saturday night on the City of FIRE.
mont, accompanied by his Wife. AT
least a couple named Clark figured in
the list of passengers, and the local Of
ficers of the company have advices to
the effect that such q. man was report
ed missing during the trip across the
lake. Mrs Clark. whose maiden name
was Martha Knoboct, appeared at her
mothers home in South Bend Monday
afternoon and declared that her hus-
band had been drowned. Immediately
every possible step was taken to trace
the missing man or corroborate his
wife's fears
Mrs. Clark says her husband was
taken i'll on board the steamer and left
his cabin to go on deck while the storm
was raging over the water. She heard
a cry Man overheard" and a moment
later found that Clark was missing. No
form ro,lld he diStin.rl1iS he'd i'm tn w.: :
ter beating against the ships sides. and
the frantic woman landed at Milwau-
kee and fastened to {. her parents.
There she was seized with hysteria
and last night was firm in the belief
that her husband had been robbed and
thrown overheard by some roughs who
she thinks saw him draw considera
BILE sum of money before he left the
city Saturday
CLARK is said by his friends at South
Bend to be a member of the Chicago
board of trade but his wife, who is still
under the shock of the strain she has
received is not able to tell where his
office or residence is in this city. Sec
rotary Stone of the board of trade says
he knows nothing regarding Clark. The
and altho Mrs. Clark says they lived
somewhere in Calumet ovenue, this has
not aided in the hunt for their local as
sociations. The officials of the Barry
line do not believe that Clark was
drowned.
The missing man was 80 years old
and frequently visited acquaintance in
South Bend. He eloped from there six