The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-08-07
Preacher-EditOr of Williams
burg Has Not Been Found.
LOrena Sutherland, a Farmers
Daughter, Is Also Missing.
WENT TO KANSAS CITY
Missing Mans Mother Suggests
Domestic Troubles.
Father of Girl Does Not Believe
Daughter Is With Minister.

Kansas City, Mo, Aug. THE mys-
terry which last week surrounded the
disappeared of Rev. w. M STICKY,
the preacher editor of Williamsburg,
Kan, has been partially explained by
the dropping out of sight of Lorena
Sutherland. the 16-year-old daughter
of David Sutherland. a farmer living
near there. She started to Ottawa
last Monday and did not return. She
was heard to ask about a train to
Kansas City.
With his young daughter Mr.. Stuc-
key came to Kansas City July 10 on a
money-raising mission. Leaving the
girl in care of a brother, Walter Stuc-
key, in Kansas City, Kan, he disap-
peared the next day. Stuckey has a
wife, son and two daughters in VIII
| liamsburg. The elder daughter was
married at her home three weeks ago.
He is 80 years old and has been in
| Williamsburg since last January. He
| went there from Hubbard, Tex, where
he had been a travelling evangelist.
Creditors have taken charge of the
| Williamsburg Star, which Stuckey
| of his church, John Tragbert. The
paper was made a semi-Weekly by
the minister and prospered. In re-
cent subscription contest, 1t is said
a Nervous Collapse, His Wife Says.
Mrs. Stuckey explains her husbands
absence on the theory of nervous
collapse.
He had something like nervous
collapse from his preaching about
written letters to all of his folks and
I'm sure we will find him"
The night of the day he came to
Kansas City Mr.. Stuckey stayed at
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mother, Mrs. Anna CASTOR, Kansas
City, Kan. Mrs. CASTOR, who has
known the Stuckey family several
years, said this morning:
Mr.. Stuckey appeared to have
broken some in health. I attributed
it to hard work in his newspaper Of
flee and his ministerial labors. He
talked very cheerfuIIy while he was
here, but could see that he had some
business worries He came about noon
Monday. About noon Tuesday he left
the house saying that he was going
to the city to see some men on bust
ness, and he added that If it took as
long to see them as it had taken to see
others he would not be back until
nearly night. That is the last we saw
of Mr.. Stuckey.
The Missing Girl Is Handsome
Where he now is do not know, and
1 do not believe any of his relatives
know. He certainly has not been to |
Bertram, Texas, to visit his brother. |
for we have written there and |
have received reply that he has not
been there"
The missing man for several years
was pastor OF the Chelsea Place Chris |
tan Adventists' church at Chelsea !
Place, west OF Kansas City, Kan. He |
left the city in 1908.
Mr. Stuckey's mother, Mrs. Mary
stuckey Of Hubbard City, Tex, is visit
ing Mrs. CASTOR. She said:
wallace left home about O'Clock
II the afternoon. He said, I'll be back
n time for supper That's the last that
has been seen or heard of him and we
nave no idea where he is
Mrs. Stuckey was asked if she knew
IF any reason that her son would desire
20 leave home and If he had any do
He was driven to do what he did"
she replied. LAS to his domestic trou-
oles, I might say a good deal, but I'm
cot going to-"
The missing girl is said to be strik-
ngly pretty. With Sc in her purse, she
eft a hardware store in Williams burg
Monday, where she was a clerk, and an
:Ounced that she was going to Ottawa
O buy school supplies. At the Ottawa
station she is reported to have inquired
n a dazed voice the time the Kansas
City train left.
Father Denies an Attachment.
The girl has an uncle here. Walter
dcGee, a motor livery man. He has
.
ice department. She has dark hair,
,lue eyes. a round. full face and weighs
bout i2O pounds. She wore a white
waist and a blue skirt when she left
She never was away from home be-
ore in her life" Mr.. Sutherland said
With tears in his eyes. She was a
cod, dutifuI girl. Everybody loved her
4 Williamsburg. I can't account for
er actions except that she got dazed
nd wandered off. She hadn't any men ,
The father attaches no significance to
he coincidence in the minister's and
he girls absence from williamsburg. /
"They were good friends, but there l
as absolutely nothing between them,'' c
Ir Sutherland said. THE minister was S
fine man. but he had a number of en- G
mics in Williamsburg who told spite I
tories. He mas called at our house e
ITS of times as a minister should, but a
here never was anything between him C
nd Lorena."