Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1914-07-24
PATM0NT IS FOUND.
MISSING MAN is RECOGNIZED BY
EDITOR VOEMASTEK AT
RIB LAKE
MAKES A VISIT TO LADYSMITH
Disappears Again, While Enroute
From This City to Detroit
with Friends

Rev. Louis R. Patmont whose mys-
terious disappearance and sensation
al kidnapping in Illinois this spring
have made him figure of national
prominence, was recognized at Rib
Lake Saturday by Editor John J..
Voemastek of the Rib Lake Herald.
Hello, Patmont,' said the editor,
who is also postmaster of his vii
lage.
81 guess it's no use, everybody
knows me- replied the muchsought-
after evangelist. PatmOnt had also
been recognized by number of the
children of that town. He was quite
we'll known there, having spoken at
meetings held in that village in De-
cember last that We're attended by
almost the entire population.
Mr.. Voemastek and Rev. A. S.
Stone, pastor of the Church of
Christ of Rib Lake, detained Pat
mont and notified relatives at Mil
waukee August Patmont, a brother
of Louis, Rev. Milton and Gordon
Knapp came up from Milwaukee Sun
day morning, Mr. Knapp returning to
Milwaukee Sunday noon, after see
ing Patmont and, with the Others
being certain that that he was the
missing man.
Thinks He is Hunted
Patmont was apparently in excel
lent physical condition. He was neat
ly dressed in gray suit, apparent
ly new, wore a new white straw hat
and was generally we'll groomed. On
every topic other than his Illinois
experience he conversed freely and
with no sign of irrationality. He was
unable to tell all the places he had
been since he disappeared from De-
troit, five weeks ago, saying:
ooh, I've been everywhere"
He seems possessed of a fever to
be moving, and was very reluctant to
return to Detroit. He has an idea
that he is being hunted. The great
est change in his appearance is that
he has raised a short mustache. His
hair was cut short and he had a
satchel containing an extra suit and
changes of clothing.
Comes to Ladysmith
Mr.. Patmont, in company with
Rev. G.. L. Milton, of Milwaukee,
"
comson, a millionaire and prominent
business man of Detroit, Bruce Miles,
detective, and Andrew Boersig, of
the Detroit Police Department, came
to Ladysmith Monday morning as Mr.
Patmont wanted to see his Lady
smith friends and spent the day here,
visiting and in consultation with Rev.
d. j. Howe, regarding the future
plans and work in the Patmont case.
Rev. Howe has been secretary of
the Missionary Committee on work
among foreign peoples of which Mr.
Patmont has been the foremost lead
er and worker.
According to the reports of Mr.
Patmont and the men who were here
in his behalf, he was continually fol-
lowed and threatened while in De
troit, after he was rescued from his
abductors in Illinois and that final
ly just before he was to return to
Illionis to identify a man under sus-
picion as one of the abductors, he
was again seized and threatened I'M
life v,~--'d be taken if he did not
.oe to get out of the country
and not appear in the courts again.
The men who seized him gave him
large roll of bills, after he had
promised them to go, and told him
to get out and not to return or his
life would be in jeopardy. He says
he started to leave the country and
went as far as Denver, but after
that does not seem to know just
where he has been.
His constant fear of being cap
tured again seems to have unbalanced
his mind.
Detective Miles and Officer Boer
sig had just returned from Illinois
where they made a thorough investi
CATION, going to Danville, Westvillt
and Columbia, and they claim the
former report of his abduction to b'
accurate and reliable beyond doubt
The five men left Monday nigh
for Detroit in charge of Mr.. Pat
mont, deciding to take him to san
itarium to receive attention and tn