The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1914-12-31
ABERDEEN PORT
OF MISSING E
OFFICIALS OF THE NORTHERN
CITY SEEKING TO LOCATE
WANDERING STARS OF
NORTHWEST.

Aberdeen. S. D.-Aberdeen bids
fair to acquire a reputation as Il
port Of missing men" if the au-
thorities do not have better fortune
in discovering the fate or the where
abouts Of Gardner b. Spittler, the
young locomotive engineer, who dis
appeared here on December 16,
while on his way from Huron to
Crandall, s. d., where he was to have
been married that day to Miss Erma
Lawson.
The last seen of Splitter, SO far
as can be ascertained here, is when
he stopped at a local flower store and
ordered 1--we dozen white roses, ask
ing the clerk to send them to the M.
& st. l.. station before train time,
II he did not call for them. Later he
called for the flowers and took them
with him. At both of his visits to
the flower store he was accompanied
by a stranger, and this stranger was
With him when @. w. Hurst, superin-
tendent of police, met Splitter on the
street the same day.
Descriptions Tally.
Splitter was a strangertto the flow
err store people, but his description
TALES with that given of the mar
who bought the white roses, and the
description of the mar accompany
ing the purchaser of the roses tai
les with that of the nan Hurst saw
with Splitter. Splitter is known to
have had a considerable amount OF
money on his person, as he intended
\ 10 take his bride to Chicago for
honeymoon trip after their marriage
D 1 - " -. H. ,oo~ az &1,1 NJ
) & st. l.. station here show no tickets
were sold for Crandall from Aber
deem on December 10th.
The Aberdeen police have been re
: quested to try and discover the wher,
!, lbout of Robert Lee Walker, son o
J j. d. Walker of Carlsbad, N. D
= Young Walker was last een at Mott
N. D., where on October Is, he wen
o the First National bank of tina
!, lace and arranged for drawing check
y y on an account he had in that institu
ton. On December %, his fathe
:. received a communication from tn
bank. enclosing some belongings @
the young man, which the bank stat
ed had been brought in by a farme
. near Mott. The bank also sent
mall remaining balance OF youn
z Walker to his father.
Another Man Disappears.
On October 10, Walker sent b
parcel post addressed to himself q
Aberdeen, from Dickinson, N. D.,
package containing his watch and
lie fountain pen. When he did not ca
IT for the package it was forwarded b
he ~postoffice to his home address
y Carlsbad, which was given on til
st parcel. Since October Is, nothin
k has been heard, either by the ban
Y 1T Mott, or by hts parents Of Wake
and his father, upon receiving tn
u communication from the bank
s. Mott, wrote Sheriff Shaffer here, asl
ir ing him to try and discover II
Of whereabouts of his son, who migl
be employed as time keeper on SON
public work, or ONE similar occup'
tion. Walker is described as beir
6 feet in height, weighing %
!, bounds, with brown hair and gre
eyes. He was 20 years of age.
, Splitter. the missing bridegrcoT
was red-haired. tall and slim, Wi
blue eyes and fTeclsles on his han'
and toreaflns.
So far, no clue l,a.s ba2as securt
to the fate that may have overtakt
either Of the ycung men.