Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-06-18
GROOM NOT THERE;
WEDDING CALLED OFT
THE MARRIAGE OF MISS CARRIE
schRApER AND JOHN BUTLER
NOT CELEBRATED.
BUTLER DISAPPEARS FROM
CITY ON EVE OF WEDDING
Groom. to. Be Last Seen Hero by Rela.
tives and Friends Tuesday Night
Said He Was Going to Ackley
Wednesday morning, But He Did
Not Arrive For Wedding.

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! A bride that was-to-be broken
hearted, q groom that-was-tob be whose
/ whereabouts are not known. wedding
ARRANGEMENTS stopped at the eleventh
! hour and two nlystided, disappointed
! and anxious households are roday's
developments of wedding OF Mar
shalltown young people that was to
+; have taken place in Ackley Thursday
night. But there was no wedding for
! the groom. John Butler, the son of Mr..
/ and Mrs. W. o. Butler, 2o7 North First
street. was not al the altar. His
j dancee, Miss Carrie a. Schrader. IS
! wretched in her misery and disap-
! poin-ment At the home Of her parents,
/, Mr.. and Mrs. F. ]. Schrader, where at
! 5 o'clock Thursday evening she was 70
have become Mrs. John Butler.
/ Butler has been gone from this city
! since some time Tuesday night This
forenoon his father. who IS manager
+ of the Citizens Lumber Company, and
{ MS brother Roy Butler, did not knew
I where their son and brother is or why
ne left FOR an unknown destination
forty eight hours before he was TO have
/ become a husband.
! Relatives Return Chaerined.
! They were chagrined and disappointed
relatives who returned Thursday after
noon and this morning from Ackley.
where they went 10 witness wedding
that did not take place. W. O. Butlen
F! his sons Roy ard Clyde and daughter
Lillian. returned from Ackley unable
10 account for their son and brothers
actions. Mrs Butler remained in
Ackley 20 comfort Miss Schrader.
( With her also was Miss Schraders
sister Mrs F. ]. Schoenhut POI
| North Seventh street this city.
| Piecing together the details those
remember who saw Butler last only
/ seem 10 make more unusual the actions
of the young man. who was expected
N Ackley Wednesday. Butler was last
seen Tuesday night.
Disappeared Tuesday Night.
| Monday night Butler accompanied
Miss Schrader TO the union station,
and saw her off for Ackley. That was
| the last time she saw him. She was
accompanied TO Ackley by Mrs
Schoenhur. Tuesday evening Butler
was again at the union station where
/ -
to-be saw him. Schoenhur says But
Ter told him ne was going to Ackley on
the train Schoenhut was waiting for,
but that he must run over TO the lum-
Der yard and see his father for
moment before he caught the train.
He stood by my desk for a little
time. and talked" said the elder But
Ter in speaking OF his sons visit Tues
day evening. Il was not familiar with
his plans. and did not know when he
was going TO Ackley. told him 10 get
Il! The car e he was going M town
7. / was going home
Butler said his son replied that had
intended going to Ackley on The eve
ming train. but that he was waiting
for a suit case that had been missent
on the Chicago Great Western from
i Randolph. MINI. to this city and that
ne expected il would be delivered here
Hate in the evening.
Last Seen That Night.
John came into the Old Reliable
drug store. about 80 Tuesday eve
ming, his brother. Roy Butler, told
T.-R. reporter this forenoon.
.'He told me he had missed the
train" Roy said. while he was talk
ing to father and that he was going on
the train at o'clock Wednesday
morning
Roy Butler said that about 9 o'clock
John came into the store again and
Roy then arranged for John TO return
at II o'clock when the store closed and
they would loaf around together until
train time.
Shortly after 9 o'clock Cliff Roberts
a clerk in the GiIdner store, and John
Butler met outside the drug store and
started for the Orpheum theater.
When they arrived in front OF il
Butler told Roberts he had decided not
to go TO the show because he had 70
go TO the station to look after a suit
case. AS far as could be learned that
is the last time Butler was seen here.
Neither Buffers father nor his
brother could give any reason why
young Butler should run away from his
marriage or where he might have gone.
The father had not heard from his
son. since he saw him Tuesday evening,
". 0. Butler said today.
Bride Becomes Nervous.
Roy Butler. said that in the time
from about s: 80 Tuesday evening until
II o'clock he got a long distance tele-
phone call from the Schrader home in
Ackley. Roy was not certain who was
talking. but he was asked II John was
coming up that night. Roy replied that
John was, and ne was then given
directions to tell John how to get into
the Schrader house without waking up
the family when John arrived so early
in the morning Roy said he took
the message and when the drug store
closed at II o'clock he started out to
search for his brother but could not
find him.
Wednesday when her husband to- be
did not reach Ackley. Miss Schrader
began to be nervous. Her nervousness
increased as the day Wore on, and wher
by Thursday forenoon Butler had still
not reached Ackley arrangements
were sorrowful1y made to call off the
~edding.
Until she left to go home to prepare
for her wedding, Miss Schrader had
!, been a stenographer in the employ OF
the LaShelle Cigar Company. She