The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1908-08-27
Search for Missing Daughters Of
Jacob Biehn Ended in Ra.
cine on Friday Night
GIRLS WORKING IN RACINE
aad Left Home Because they Gould
Not Forget Their Mother and
Claimed They Were Forced to
Work Hard on the Farm

The long search for Gertrude ! and
dorothy Biehn, the missing daughters
of Jacob Biehn, the Paris farmer, ended
on Friday evening when the Racine
police officers found the two girls in
Racine. One of them was working for
Fl. Sears on Washington avenue and
the other for S. Reid on Kearney
avenue. Both houses are in the out
skirts Of Racine and it seems that the
girls had sought work in these out of
way places in order to better get away
from the search that they knew would
be made for them. Both of the girls
denied that any one had aided them in
leaving their home and they asserted
that they had left home on account Of
differences with their step-mother.
They claimed that at home they had
been forced to do manual labor and
to even work at farm work on the large
Biehn farm and that many times the
work was beyond their strength. Both
Of the girls expressed a willingness to
return to their home under new con
ditions and it is expected that Mr.. and
Mrs. Biehn will go to Racine today
and that an understanding will be
reached by which the girls will be
taken home this afternoon. The girls
stated that they had been kindly treat
ed in the homes Of the Racine people
and that they could remain there as
long as they desired. The girls had
not communicated with any Of their
relatives in Racine and had kept their
whereabouts a secret until they were
discovered by the Racine police.
According to the story they told the
Racine police, they left their homes in
order to find more congenial surround
ings and reached Racine early Tuesday
morning. FIney had some trouble find
ing employment and declared that they
walked the streets for the better part
of day before they found employ
trent.
The people by whom they had been
employed stated that the girls were
hard and willing workers and that they
could remain in the homes as long as
they saw fit.
The parents Of the girls were not ad-
vised of the fact that they. had been
found until this morning and they at
once left for Racine to meet the miss
ing girls. Yesterday Biehn and his
wife were in Milwaukee and they tear
fully related the story Of the disap-
pearance of the two girls to the Mil
waukee police.
"Both Gertrude and Dorothy had
been discontended for a long time, ;"
Biehn told Inspector Otto Riemer.
fThey couldn forget their mother.
frequently they said that no one could
fill her place. On the night of their
disappearance they took all their
clothes, packed them in suit cases and
departed without saying anything TO
me, Early in the evening they were
noticed tearfully inspecting number
OF mementoes OF their mother. Little
pieces Of jewelry left by her, and
treasured by the girls because of the
attached sentiment were stored with
the girls clothes and carried away
with them. /"
Ever since the girls were reported
missing Kenosha relatives have held
that they had left home on account of
the fact that they did not get along
well with the second Mrs. Biehn, but
this fact had been so strenuously de-
MED by Biehn and his wife that other
theories had oeen followed by the Of
fcials in seeking the girls. It is proba-
bic that the last chapter in the little
story will be written tomorrow when
the girls return to their homes and it
il probable that they will be allowed
to have a little more to say in the
manner Of their life at the Paris home
in the future.