The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1908-05-21
FATHER FINDS
KIDNAPPED GIRL
HAD SEARCHED FOR EIGHT LONG
NC THIS SPENDING HIS
LAST CENT.
LIVING ON HOUSEDOAT
Girl Had Not Been On Land For
Months--Abductor a Married
Man, Now Under Arrest
at Hickman, ku.

| Hickman, KY. May 20After an
/ eight months continued search. FL
Ray yesterday found his dausIt r.
Mary Ray on shanty boat jut
above Hickman.
VIII Fleming. It Is ALLEGED st ls
lher one night last August from
home in Decatur, III, and, she says.
forced her to get in a skiff and 20
OF with him. She was only 10 years
old.
No news was heard OF her, and
her father, who owned home, wagon
and team and had good liging.
gave up his work and mortgagad bis
| team and home to "ot money to 60 In
search of he 'l-ghter He had been
searchir~ for her since then. until H.
hp epent every cent he had anil had
20 20 to work In Cairo.
Through q friend who correspond "a
with some one near Dnrena, Mo,
across the river from here, he learned
that there was a young girl gu
shanty boat at the head Of island
| No. G.
| He started to Hickman Sun1a :,
| but had no money when he z I 10
Union City and had to pawn his coat
to get here. Learning that she vas
on boat between here and Cairo, III.
he returned and procured a easolina
launch, and with friends starte 4 lwn
the river, searching every hous b at
They passed the boat his daughter
was on and landed here. He male
known his search. but no ona hire
knew VIII Fleming, and he ha
given up the search and started back
to Cairo. VIII Fleming had three
fingers aud half Of the thumb Of tats
hand off. and although Mr.. Ray Ill
not know him he expected to flad
him by this eiew.
Soon after the boat left suspicious
| looking man was seen to come out
| from the depot and start up the ri
road track. watching the boat AZ 1t
went up the river His at itnde.
created suspicion, and 1t was further
discovered that he had three fing RS
and thumb of one hand. He was TO-
lowed and overtaken aud arrested BY
Deputy Marshal Ballard on srsa'ci n.
He was frightened and weakened
and made full confession. stating
that he had the girl on boat above
town. Tho fastest launch here was
secured and fastened after Mr. Rays
launch They were oveftaken AMI
went to tn boat where he found bis
daughter.
She was brought to Hickman,
whore she Identified VIII Flemi g
and told her gitiful story. Her hair
was short falling to her shoulders.
her face burned to a brown, and with
streaming eyes she made pitiful
picture She said she had not been
on land for weeks, and through fear
lof Fleming was afraid to write home.
Fleming was placed in Jail here and
will be carried back to Decatur as
soon as reqrisition papers can be pro
cured A collection was taken up and
Given Mr. Ray who started back 10
Cairo A large crowd was on the
bank to see them of
Fleming was a married man had a
wife aud two children in Decatur. He
had been living at the head of the
island for the past FIVE weeks aud
working on J. II. Picket's farm.
| 1.-THE foregoing was referred to in
yesterdays Bulletin locally. Mr. Ray
returned Yesterday 10 Cairo with his
daughter MAY only ~ years old. Glenn.
ents Is In jail at Hickman. He l4ft
wife and two children at Decatur.
He is 80 years oldl