The Detroit times., 1912-02-08
Y0UAG=GlRI=DISAPP[ARS-
WITH PARENTS MONEY
uOPEMENT is SCENTED
Rosie Meyers, IA Years Old, Be-
Lieved To Have Gone To
Chicago With Sweetheart
CASHES CHECKS IN BANK
Girl Seen With Charles Diehl
Soon After Leaving Home
Police Search For Pair

| Police officers OF two cities, Detroit
and Chicago, are searching for Rosie
; Meyers, aged IL, of No. $50 Michigan
ave-, and Charles Diehl aged Is. who
are supposed to have eloped Wednes.
day night.
! Ihe local police have received in
formation that the couple we're seen
together, Wednesday afternoon, and
The supposition is that they eloped to
Chicago, where Diehl has a sister.
! Just before her disappearance, the
Meyers girl went to the Home Savings
/ bank branch at Michigan-ave. and
Eighteenth-st., and cashed checks
amounting to 1886 for her father
Joseph Meyers. who runs saloon
known as the Packing House cafe at
No. $50 Michigan-ave. The presump-
| tion is that she turned the money
over TO young Diehl, for the latter, ac-
cording TO gossip current in the
neighborhood, visited several stores
IN this section early in the evening,
making numerous purchases and
flashing big roll OF bills. He is also
reported to have told some of his
friends that he was going to Chicago.
Patrolman John Sehloud, whose beat
boldt-ave. and the Boulevard, saw
piehl and the Meyers girl, both of
whom he knows well, talking In front
of the Star theater, midway between
the Meyers saloon and the bank, about
l O'Clock in the afternoon. Ii Is sup
posed that the girl was then on her
way to the bank, for she had number
OF papers in her hand that looked like
checks.
Diehl was employed by Michael
Rocco, produce merchant on the
western market, directly In the rear
OF the Home bank branch. Rocco
knew The girl we'll and says she -eall--
ed there frequently TO see the young
man. All three had their picture TAX
en- in front of the place at Christmas
time, and Rocco had one OF them in
Ills possession until few days ago.
He suspects that the girl, nnbeknown
TO him, took 1t away
The parents OF the girl evidently
knew of the attachment between
their daughter and young Diehl,
though neither of them Will discuss
the matter now. 1t was learned how
ever. that Mrs. Meyers recently ran
across a number of the post card pic
CO. WulIu udu hCu wv
to the girl, and destroyed them.
For several weeks past, Diehl has
been talking about going to Chicago.
In the 3uloons of the neiPhborhood,
where lie spent considerable time, he
talked of scarcely nothing else. Diehl
and Miss Meyers were frequent visitors
TO Tire TAI titeatetI, and Miss Meyers
had an ambition 10 go on the stage.
she would have gone on here II
we had encouraged her." said an en-
ploye Of the playhouse.
Although only IA years old. Miss
Meyers would pass for girl of lS or
20. She is brunette and is of rather
stout build The couple would have
70 difficulty In securing marriage
license.
The Detroit police think there Is
possibility that the young people are
still IN Detroit and Detectives Schlunt
and Horrigan, of the Vinewood sta
ton, are making a careful inquiry
Diehl formerly boarded ut No. SS
Humboldtave., but left there about
four weeks ago. OF late he is sup
posed to have been stopping with his
brother at No. 1870 Twenty-ffth-st.