The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1909-07-29
Knights Of Pythias Make a Trip
Through the Woods in Search
for Missing Judge CIarkson
INTERESTING STORIES TOLD
Clarkson is Alleged to Have Boarded
an Electric Car at Glencoe Satur.
day Evening and May Have
Gone to Shermanville
(From Monday IS Daily


mile after mile through the dense
woods in the neighborhood of Glencoe
and Winnetka thirty members Of Cas-
tie Lodge of the knights of Pythias re-
turned to Kenosha late Sunday night
after spending the entire day search
ing for some trace of their missing
brother, Judge Joseph R. Clarkson.
The long days search brought disap-
pointment but not Encouragement as
the members of the lodge returned to
Kenosha convinced that Judge Clark
son is still alive and that during their
long tramp some of Che men must have
been close to his hiding place. One or
two of the members of the lodge are
still at work on the case and the mem
bers are hopeful that these men will
vet find some trace which will ulti-
mately result in the missing man be-
ing found and restored to his family
and friends. Headed by the officials
searching party left Kenosha on an
early train Sunday morning and leav
ing the train at Glencoe they divided
into searching parties and scattered IN
all directions. Working their way
through the dense woods and under
brush these men determined to make
the search thorough one, and they
stopped at every clearing in the great
woods and inquired if Clarksoa had
been seen by the people,
Many places they found that man
answering the description of Cl"rF sou
had been in the neighborhood during
ID pas few days and they founi sew
eral leads OF interest if not Importance
Two of the conductors on the Chicago
and Milwaukee electric stated that
they had seen Clarkson and one of
them declared that a man answering
the description of Clarlson to the
minutest detail had been a passenger
on his car just before night fall on
Saturday evening. He declared that
the man had boarded the car just south
of Glencoe and had ridden as far as
the Hubbard woods. He left the ear
and started into the woods. His ac-
tons were so unusual that passengers
on the car watched him as he disap-
peared into the dense woods in the
gathering darkness. A negress keep
ing a small store at one of the clear
ings in the woods west of Winnetka
declared that she had seen the miss
ing man ON Friday evening and that he
Vile A saloon keeper in Sherman
vile declared that he felt certain that
he had seen Clarkson there early Sat,
urday morning. So it was all day
long. The scarchers found clue after
clue and every one of them was fol-
lowed just as far as there was any
lead. One thing is unusual and that
is that all the people who have seen
ClarksOn have seen him either late in
the afternoon or early in the morning
and not a person has been found who
admits having seen the missing man
IN the middle Of the day. This would
indicate that the theory that Clarkson
is spending his days in the woods is
the correct one and that he leaves the
woods only during the early morning
or late in the evening. 1t is rather
remarkable that the man seen has
made no effort to secure food at any
of the places he has stopped.
While the Pythians planned to make
the search of the WOODS thorough one
members of the party claim that such
search is an impossible one and that
Judge Clarkson could have been with
in a few feet of the searchers many
times on Sunday and they never have
discovered 1T on account of the dense
underground.
The clue which was brought from
James NORM in Somers proved to have
nothing in it as Mr.. NORM had seen
Clarkson in his Office in Kenosha sew
eral days before his disappearance and
not on the road. 1t is expected that
District Attorney Baker will return to
Kenosha tomorrow and that he will at
once take personal charge of the search
for his partner.
LEMoNT CLUE FAILS