Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-25
MISSING AMEs STUDENT RE,
TURNED TO SCHOOL FROM
MARsHALLToWN
REFUSES TO TALK REGARDING
HIS SUDDEN DISAPPEARANCE
Found by Fellow Student Wandering
in Railway Yards-WilI Be Grad
uated With Engineering Glass =
Fianee Prosecuted Vigorous Search
Mind Temporarily Affected.

Ames, May 25.-Carl H. Schemann,
valedictorian in the 1910 civil engin-
eering class at Ames, and who was
found wandering in the Great Western
railway yards at an early hour yester-
day morning at Marshalltown by fell
low student, Frederic Nichols, is back
in A1nes. Schemann has been missing
since AIS o'clock Saturday morning,
when he left his room ,at Prof. r. II.
Porters residence in Ames in a hazy
mental condition, due to illness and
worry over final examinations. He
was returned to his lodgings and will
remain at Ames to graduate. He re-
fuses to talk. The school board has
already voted to issue him a diploma.
Doctors say he will recover after a
long rest.
Prominent in the case of Schemann's
peculiar disappearance, which caused
great mental distress to his parents,
who live at Des Moines, is the devotion
of Miss Ethel Palmer. fiance to tSche-
mann She is a teacher in Ames. The
discovery of Sci1emann is almost en-
tirely due TO Miss Palmer's activity
and her confidence in Schemann Miss
Palmer and young Schemann are en-
gagged to be married in September.
Strain Severe.
Until a few months ago Shemann
stood second in his class; a classmate
named Kennedy occupying first place
of honor. The pace set by the civil
engineering class, over which Dean
Marston presides, is fast in the work
and the strain nearing graduation is
severe. Kennedy dropped out some
time ago; leaving Sctemann the added
responsibility of maintaining first
place It is now but two weeks until
graduation time. Schemann was taken
i'll seven weeys ago with inflammatory
rheuma tism and had to leave school
and go to his parents home in Des
Moines, where he was Ill in bed for 4
time.
,Spurred by the ambition Of his moth
err, Schemann returned to his studies IN
Alnes, still in poor health. There he
had the combined sympathy and as
sistance of his class. his professors and
his sweetheart. Miss Palmer. He
struggled nanfully to maintain his po-
sition, and his instructors say he stood
no, danger of falling behind. However,
Schemann grew respondent thru the
constant drain upon his system.
Last Thursday the student, who is
but % years of age, and has earned his
way thru college by acting as stem
ogranher for a department., felt him
self unable to carry the burdens OF the
next two weeks and told Miss Palmer
during an interview, in the evening that
he intended to commit suicide or leave
Ames for some distant place where ne
could be alone and relieve his friends OF
care She tried to encourage him and
finally babe him good night.
He appeared to have recovered his
cheerful disposition. They both live at
Professor Porter's home.
Alone in Yards.
Saturday morning Schemann's room
mate DIR. Butler, awakened 10
find Schemann gone No trace Of him
could be found until Nichols saw Sche-
mann wandering in Marshalltown Mon
day night.
Late that night Nichols came upon
Schemann walking about the yards
with his hands in his pockets, appar-
emily meditating and with vacant
stare in his eyes. Schemann was taken
back to Ames.
During Schemann's absence Miss
Pain1eT IldQ 1oAl Niioi 90 VI 49,
fiance's effects and carried the key to
his room. She made search and found
letters, started but unfinished. One of
them was in German to his mother;
one in English to Miss Palmer in which
he said it was his last day on earth, and
several business letters. None OF
them were completed and all We're
crumpled and thrown in, the waste
basket 1T appeared as tho Schemann
had debated the question Of suicide or
running away. had decided Est on
death then found it too severe and had
abandoned his purpose to fee without
even one letter completed to say good
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