The Norfolk weekly news-journal., 1907-05-10

That Boche's relatives were making
an earnest effort to put themselves in
touch with the missing man and to
persuade him to surrender to the
course of the law was the opinion of
friends of the Boche family. That the
family were totally unaware of Bo-
ches place of hiding, II alive, was also
apparent to those who visited the
Boche home. Boches family and i'm
mediate relatives, they said, were con
vinced that the hunted mans wisest
course would be to voluntarily give
himself up.
From TUESDAYS Daily.1
Two possible clues as to the where
abouts of Herman Boche, wanted for
killing Frank farmer in Norfolk last
Wednesday morning, developed late
Monday and Sheriff Clements started
out on the early morning train Tues
day to run one of them down. One
theory was that Boche had walked
southwest from here toward Columbus
and that he was seen at Humphrey,
| twenty-five miles southwest of Nor
folk, at o'clock Friday night by two
men. Another theory was that he
went to the farm of a relative near
| Wakefield and has been hiding there.
The Wakefield Clue.
This latter theory was developed
when the town marshal at Wakefield
telephoned late Monday evening that
Mrs. Boche had arrived there on the
afternoon train from Norfolk and i'm
mediately drove out to the farm of
relatives, seven miles southwest of
Wakefield. She said she intended to
return to Wakefield in time to catch
the train for Norfolk Monday evening
but when she failed to come back to
town it was thought perhaps her stay
on the farm might indicate that she
had known her husband was there and
that she had gone there to see him.
Sheriff Clements of Madison arrived
in Norfolk in the night and took the
early morning train to Wakefield to
run down this clue. He was joined at
Wayne by Sheriff Mears of Wayne
county and two deputies. They had
no knowledge how long the search
might require.
The Humphrey Report.
The theory that Boche walked south
west from Norfolk and was seen in
Humphrey Friday night was developed
when Principal j. J. Malone of the
Humphrey high school telephoned his
father, County Commissioner John Ma
lone at Madison, that two Humphrey
men had seen Friday night stranger
who exactly answered the Boche de-
ScriptiOn. First news of this report
came to Norfolk in a telephone mes
sage to The News from the Office of
Editor j. b. Donovan of the Madison
Star Mail. Mr.. Malone stating that his
son had just telephoned from Hum
phrey, Later in the evening The
News talked with Principal Malone at
Humphrey by telephone. Mr.. Malone
said that two Humphrey men, Mr.
Bachus and Mr.. stephens, one a nur-
! seryman and the other a drayman
stated that they saw last Friday even
ing stranger in Humphrey who acted
suspciously and who exactly answered
the BOche description. This stranger
stopped at the Bachus home and asked
for something to eat. The man was
about six feet tall, had black nous
tache and wore a brown derby hat
He acted strangely enough to arouse
Mr.. Bachus' suspicion, although Mr.
: Bachus did not at that time know the
Boche description. Mr.. Stephens, in
another part of town, who did know
the description of Herman Boche from
newspaper reports, saw the tall man
walking south and thought at the time
that the stranger answered the Boche
characteristics but was not positive
enough to have the man arrested.
When Mr.. Malone at Humphrey
learned of these reports he realized
that Boche, by walking at night, would
have just about had time enough to
; reach Humphrey Friday morning and
that, having concealed himself in a
barn all day, he could very easily have
been starting out at dark to renew
, his trip southwest in an effort to get
} further away from Norfolk
r 1t had not been learned at noon
{ whether Sheriff Clements took any &C
] ton to have the Humphrey clue run
down or not, as he was not seen or
( his way through Norfolk to Wakefield
q where he went to seek out the Wake
e field possibility.
e Mrs. Boche, who was said to have
d been i'll and who is asserted to have
0 greatly changed since the search be
4 ran for her husband, was in town Mon
e lay and was seen getting aboard the
train which took her to Wakefield.
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