The Topeka state journal., 1909-02-27
HER HUNT IN Vain
Mrs. Clara Austin of Junction
City Searches for Daughter.
Dropped Out of Sight at Topeka
in January.
APPEALS TO POLICE.
Detectives Visit All Places
Where Girl Might Be.
Mail Found Uncalled Tor at
Post Office.

| In an afternoon of tears searching
the city in every likely nook 1or d
| trace of her lost daughter yet almost
afraid to learn anything for rear oA
what it might be, Mrs. Clara Austln'
who lives near Junction City, in COM
pany with City Detective Al Hopkins
| inouired at place after place, climbed
stairs unnumbered sobbing the name
| of "Ethel." and at last footsore, weary
and disappointed took the tram Aol
home. ~.
day afternoon and Immediately told
her story to the police ana secureu
the assistance of a detectlVe. 1ne M
Austins live on rural route NO. out
of Junction City. Their circumstances
are moderate. Mrs. Austin IS a tram
ed nurse and away from the nome
great deal in her profession. MISS
Ethel had gone to Kansas city year
or so ago to study millinery but nad
not completed the course, presumably
from lack of funds. She had re.
turned home with the thought OF
earning money to complete the course.
Reading the advertisements in the
Topeka papers of the employment
agencies brought her to the CITY 70 ap
ply for work and she came the Null M
day after Christmas. She was given
employment in hotel for day when
she quit, as the work was too heaVy;
then she tried a restaurant Tor several
days but that also was too nard WoIh
and she secured employment with the
wife of a travelling man to take care
of the rooms and as a companion
where she remained until four weeks
ago. the last date on which she was
heard from 1,o,,,a
+uice a week regularly, though the
mother was seldom at nome and the
father received the letters Ethei
had requested that all mail be sent
addressed to the genera oellNesS 1oao+;or o9
she was likely to change her location
often. Four weeks ago letters falleo
to come and the parents pegan 70
worry about the whereabouts OF tnelr
daughter with the result thaI NE 20
Austin and a neighbor woman came 10
T1oneLa in a search for the missing
girl. -, o,,+
The only address that the girl sent
home was Ninth street and Kansas dV
enue Every possible place IN the VI
IciDi+v was visited in the search put no
trace could be found nor the names OF
any travelling man VINO nau No..a
| there 1t is improbable that the Sope5
| land hotel was meant. for the Copelaho
hotel was destroyed two weeks beIore
| the letters ceased to come to Junction
City. ,o+4o-- @,,.i+
| ten to Ethel from home IN the 1ast
month were found uncalled for
Further information in the negro
woman robbery case Indicates lhdI
nothing will be done in the prosecu-
| ton for several reasons. A letter just
received at the station from Dr. Lytle
of Durham, who lost the money leaVeS
the impression that he has decided
that he will forever be unable to get
his practice into shape for coming TO
Topeka as he intended to do.
1t has come to be the theory OF the
police that the doctor was plucked IN
the den by the opium fiends and the
SIS will have to be listed as sometnlns
NOT traceable on account of some tes-
timony unwilling and ungiven.
All the old stocks of Tom Stump and
lin Miller, confiscated long ago by the
city. the stocks of the eight recent joint
raids Including that of lube Jordan and
John Ewing, the basket full belong1ng
Formerly to a bootlegger who was not
cantnred. the Willis and Brown stock and
any others with the exception of the Ciar5
ence Young liquors have all been dumped
ont and the wine cellar of the station pre-
sents a different aspect this morning
though the whole building smells like an
earlier date saloon