The Sentinel=record., 1914-03-10
w. F. HOGUE SPENDS SUNDAY AND MONDAY IN HOT SPRINGS
 IN LONG PURSUIT.
PARALLELS THE WINTER CASE
While Carpenter Was at His Work in Oklahoma Town Trader Came Along and Took His Wife and Child Left.

w. U i1OSue, very ueLefml0eQ looking man of middle age, was in Hot Springs Sunday and yesterday in search of his daughter, a 9-year-old child, who was taken from his home in Billings, Oklahoma, on the 16th day of last August.
 The case in measure parallels the hunt that tine father of the famous Catherine Winters is making for his daughter. Both men are determined to spend the remainder of their lives in the search or trace their children and get them back under their pro- lection.
 The story Mir Hogue tells fndi- cates that the child which was picked up in northwest Arkansas as Gather inc Winters, is his own daughter The description is the same. And Hogue is hunting all over Arkansas and Missouri for the man who had the child.
 Hogue was carpenter and lived in Oklahoma evidently happy with his wife and child, until l.. E. Thomas horse and mule buyer, came along. One day when Hogue returned from his work his wife and child were gone. He found out that they had gone with Thomas in small auto mobile.
 Hogue traced them for the purpose of recovering his child. but he never did reach them. He went to where he knew Thomas made his sales of stock in Kansas City, but Thomas had changed his field of selling, and was delivering stock to New Orleans and St Louis.
 Not long ago in southern Missouri Hogue was almost within reach of the couple, but they kept eluding him. and finally got entirely away. He last heard of them in Hot Springs, and they were making towards Hot Springs, enquiring the way but some thing happened their machine and they turned back. Which way they went then he does not have an idea.
 Any one having any information of the couple viii address l. k. Owens. Little Rock, and thus help a father in the search of his child. If the father recovers the girl he will give $50 reward to whoever is instrument tai in that victory.
 The story is most similar to the Newcastle, Indiana story, where the Winters child was kidnapped.
 Catherine Winters was nine years old at the time of her disappearance and was declared by all who knew her to be an unusually intelligent child for her age. She was the daugh ter of Dr. and Mrs. w. A. Winters, well known and respected residents of Newcastle The child was last seen in the vicinity of her home at about noon on March 20, 1913. At that time she dropped out of sight as mysteriously as if the earth had opened and swallowed her.
 For an entire year Dr. Winters has been engaged in a continuous search for his lost child He has travelled over a large section of the country and has visited every place whence came reports of any thing that resem' bled clue to the whereabouts Of the little girl Only a week ago he returned to his home here after fruitless trip to Arkansas, where 1t was reported that a child resembling Catherine Winters had been found.
 A peculiar feature of the case is that neither the parents nor the friends of the family have ever en- tertained any other than the kidnap- ing theory as a solution of the mys- tery. Their firm belief that the child was kidnapped seems to be shared als boy the authorities who have in- vestigated the case, despite the fact that motive as well as evidence of kidnapping appears to be lacking.
 But those who held to the kidnap- ping theory argue that the little girl must either have been kidnapped or killed. And as it is incrediable that oh q who was known to nearly eY- cry person in town could have met death in any manner in broad day light without leaving a trace of the tragedy, the Kidnapping theory seems to offer the only reasonable explana- tiop of the disappearance.
 On the other hand, there was no apparent motive for '''dnaainx the l child, While Dr. Winters Is possessed