The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1909-11-16
Family and Friends Believe THAT
Miss Clark Was Spirited Away
BY Professor
Vaughn.
POSSIBLY FOR MONEY
Was Known to Have Several Hundred
DoIlars-Girl Supposed to be
innocent of Any
Guilt.

oplTlled from the city under the
hypnotic influence of one Professor
Vaughan, hypnotist and fortune teller,
who made Keokuk his abode during
street fair week and the several weeks
following, the fate of Nellie Clark, the
twenty-three year old daughter of
Mrs. Matilda E. Clark, 500 South Fifth
street, is unknown to her worried
mother, sisters and friends Whether
she has been the victim of diabolica
plot on the part of a gifted hypnotist
and fortune terrell is not known def
nitely, but her mother and mem
bers Of the family believe that
she was helplessly enticed from
the city by man whose oh
ject was to rob her of several hun
dred dollars which she is believed to
have had in her possession. A clew is
in the hands of Marshal Henry Kes-
selring and this morning he departed
for Holden, Mo-, the fruits Of whose
visit will not be known until his re-
turn. In the meantime Mrs. Clark II
worrying about her daughter, whose
return will brighten the home and re-
store 1t to its former happiness.
Nellie Clark was employed at the
home OF Mrs. H. 0. Whitney during
the summer months and until week
ago Saturday morning. 1t is known
that the girl was acquainted with a
certain Professor Vaughan, who came
to Keokuk during the street fair week.
Whether the professor called on the
girl or not was not disclosed, but their
relations We're such that suspicious
were Immediately directed at the
man, upon the girls disappearance
During the. last two weeks that the
| girl was at work, there was a strange
ness about her manner that was al
most alarming, and now those init
mately associated with the girl sus-
pect that she was under hynotititic
influence at the time. IIerscondition
I grew worse from day to day.
Finally she gave Mrs., Whitney
twenty-four hours notice of the fact
that she was going to depart. During
| her work she had received more than
a hundred dollars and had apparently
spent but little of it. She then went
to her mother and told her also of her
intention OF leaving the city, but at
the same time acted very mysterious
/ ly about it.
1t was learned that the gtrlleft Keo
kuk Saturday morning. 1t was also
learned that Professor Vaughan had
departed in the morning and that he
made arrangements for the transpor
tation of her baggage. 1t is supposed
that they met possibly at Hannibal
and together took a train for the west
The family also believed that the
girl was to marry man whose home
is in the state of Washington, and fol
time believed that she was going
west to meet him, they thinking thai
she had received more than hun
dred dollars from this source.
For time it was known that tils
girl was in st. Joseph, Mo-. but lit
tie else is known as to her lie during
the past week. Whether the two have
been married is not known, but those
III d pOoltlOA W hlOW cliC illCIlIlSu "
believe that they were not, and tna
Professor Vaughan simply carried
through his plan to secure the money
Professor Vaughan lived at 300 Blon
deau during his residence in Keol1uk
i All the Davenport papers say nice
things of "The Sunny Side of Broad
way"
Light and dark outings. 10c val
ues at S1-3c yard at the Central
The Davenport papers speak il
tle most complimentary terms of 9TH,
Sunny Side of Broadway"
George Parsons of this city wht
is attending the state university a
Iowa City is playing end on one of the
pharmacy football teams