Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-04-19


daughter OF Mr.. and Mrs. Chris knab.
209 South Eighth avenue.
A picture OF the girl. in male attire,
as photographed in Des MONIES. was
identified by Mrs. Knab this forenoon
when reporter called a, the Knab
home.
Disappeared Monday Night.
Earlier in the forenoon the girls
father, accompanied by Sheriff ]. G..
Edgar. went TO Des Moines TO get the
girl, whom knab identified, and 10
search for her brother Robert, who is
missing, and is supposed TO have left
Des Moines.
The detention of the girl at ST. Mon
icas home solves the Whereabouts Of
one Of the two children who disap-
pea-ed from the knab home Monday
evening and have not been seen since.
With Miss knab, who is II, went her
brother Robert, aged 16. No word had
been received by the parents of their
children's whereabouts since the broth
er and sister left home Monday eve
ming until early this morning. when
the clue came from Des Moines that
Searches For Wife; Finds Girl.
Ii was by the merest Of coincideEts
,ha, the Knab girl, held in Des Moines,
was traced back to this city. and the
means by which this was accomplished
was from outside the Des Moines po-
ice department. that had been puzzled
by the girls case.
a. E. Hamrick. a railroad man OF
Muskogee, Okla. was the connecting
ling. Harrick was in Des Moines Fri
day. He came here this morning.
From Oklahoma. where Hamr!ck had
recently married if-year-old sirl, ne
and his wife went to Omaha. There
Hamrick was arrested for being drunk
While he was in Jail his wife d!sap-
peared. Hamrick thought she might
have gone TO Des Moines, so Hamrick
went there. He was arrested after
reaching that city for intoxication
Taken TO Identify Girl.
Ir police court Hamrick told the
story Of searching for his wife, and
the police. thinking that the girl who
said she was Grace Knab. and who
vas telling strange stories at st. Mon
ica's home, might be Mrs. Hamrick'
took Hamrick 10 the home TO identity
the girl. who was about the age OF
Mrs Hamrick.
Hanrick found the girl was not his
wife, but he heard Miss Knab's stories.
Han7rick vas coming TO this city.
thinking that from here ne would go
20 OskaIoosa or Washington. hoping
10 find his wife at the latter pace,
where Mrs. Hamrick has relatives.
The knab girl told at st. Monica
that she lived in Marshalltown. but she
also said she lived other places. Ham
rick. however offered TO inquire in this
city wnen ne got here and notify the
Des Moines police If the inquiry de-
ve!cped any clue.
Weaver Knew Of Family.
Harnrick hunted up policeman soon
after ne reached this city and the OF
f;cer John Weaver. knew Knao fam
;lv Weaver and Hamrick went TO the
Koab home shortly after midnight,
The father OF the girl communicated
vii, the Des Moines police and be-
came 50 much convinced that the de-
tanned girl was mis- daughter that ne
went 10 Des Moines to make certain
and get the girl.
Robert knab Still Missing.
Robert Knab is still missing He ana
his sister arrived in Des Moines Wed
nes0ay. According 70 the Des MONIES
end Of the story, the brother and sister
got a room, later purchasing SUIT OF
BOYS clothes. which Grace hnao put
on. While wearing them she was ar
rested by the police. Her brother was
not with her at the time. The police
found the girls own clothes at the
room. which they afterwards visited
After being detained for time oy
the police, the girls mental condition
VAS such that she was taken to 81.
Monica's home for care. There she
told the widest sort of stories.
Lived Many Places.
According TO these tales the sirl
lived here. in North Dakota, on the
Missouri river, at some indefinitel.
located place, and elsewhere. In two
az the stories she said she and her
brother had driven a horse until il
gave out. One Of these tales was that
the brother and sister lived in North
Dakota and had driven a single morse
hitched to a buggy all the way from
there to near this city. Another story
she told was that she and her brother
lived on the Missouri. and that "nlie
they were away from home riding a
I cyclone blew their home away. When
she and her brother returned home the
house was demolished and its inmates
gone So she and Robert drove away
! in the buggy. They came to Mar
shalltown, she said, then drove to Ne
vada, where they left the horse. They
walked on to Ames. she continued, and
| then took an interurban car TO Des
Moines The girls sunburned face and
badly worn SHOES indicated that she
had walked long distance.
Mrs. knab hsartbroksn.
The disappearance OF her two oldes'
children Of q family Of eight, and thu
unhappy plight in which her daughte,
was found, has left Mrs. Knab heart
| broken.
| She said Grace. who has been EN-
! ployed in the coffee roasting depart
ment Of the Western Grocer Mile, ief
4 home Monday evening about I:3'
O'Clock
SHE asked me to 20 to see Lizzie