The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1909-11-15
JOHN WENzEL HAS
FOUND A Clue
ICELAND MAN WHO RECENTLY
ASKED HELP OF LOCAL POLICE
TO HELP HIM IN FINDING RUN
AWAY WIFE GETS TRACK OF
SPOUSE AT GRAND FORKS.

That his missing wife and their two
children are either in Grand Forks or
are very near that place is the opinion
of john Wenzel, the Egeland man who
recently appealed to the local police
OF Fargo and Moorhead to assist him
IN flndlng his runaway family.
WenzePs conclusion was reached
from information he secured Saturday
at Mayvile by which he has traced his
wife and children from the time tney
left his home with Frank Kohl until
they left Mayville on Nov. 8. What
they did after that or where they are
now Wenzel does not know, but en-
couraged by his success, he is pursu-
ing the hunt with more vigor than
ever in the hope that he may finally
get the children.
Frank KonH, the cattle BUYER and
horse trainer, who, Wenzel SAYS. stole
his wife and babe from him after
wards returned to Egeland. but left
there Saturday for Grand Forks and
Minneapolis, Wenzel met the incom-
ing trains from the west at Grand
Forks Saturday evening in search Of
konll and If the alleged wife stealer
had landed in Grand Forks, it is prob
able something would have dropped
Wenzel, naturally a peaceful and hard
working laboring man, has been trans
formed by his wrongs until he has
now reached the point where ne is GO
ing to recover his children no matter
what the opposition.
His purpose last evening was TO
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matter and if Kohl had arrived here.
ne probably would have been only too
glad to give up his information.
Yesterday Wenzel found the first
clue at Mayville as to where his wife
and children had been since they were
missed from their home at EgeIand or,
Oct. ~. Town after town he had
searched inquiring at all the hotels
and showing his wife's picture. Final
ly at the Hotel Cady, MayvilIe. after
the clerk had replied to his INQUIRY as
to whether Mrs. Wenzel had stoned
there, in the negative, ne showed him
the picture. The clerk Immediately
recognized the face and said such
woman had registered there some DAYS
ago as Mrs. Louise Dickhoff. Wenzel
recognized his wife's handwriting on
the register and secured considerable
information regarding what she had
said and done. while there. She told
the hotel people that she was the wife
of cattle buyer and butcher at
Starkweather, N. d. She further said
that she was going to Portland, locat-
ed a few miles from Mayville and
that her husband was to join her
there. They afterwards intended to
go to California for the winter.
But the thing that interested Wen
eel most and of which ne spoke last
evening with tears in his eyes was
that the two little children were con-
tinually begging that they be taken
back to papa"
On Oct. 81, Mrs. wenzel received a
letter which seems to have been from
Konll On reading it she said her
husband wanted her to go to Little
Falls Mimi, and he would meet her
there. On Nov. 3 she came as far
as Grand Forks and here Wenzel's
clue breaks off. He was able to learn
however, that no tickets were sold to
Little Falls and this has lead him to
believe That che is in Grand Forks.
Another circumstance that has also
helped out this theory is the fact that
week ago Friday KonlI went to
Grand Forks and later ordered his
trunks sent from Egeland there.
Though somewhat disappointed over
the fact that Konll did not arrive in
the city Saturday. Wenze1 proposes to
continue his search with renewed Wig
or.
Regarding Konil and his wife, he
seems to care very little, but the chill
dren ne does want and intends to have.