The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-04-21
Children of John Eichh0rst Dis.
appear Suddenly
BOYS ARE Seen ON TRAIN
He Is of the Opinion That Two
Children Were Taken to
Sioux Falls
From Fridays Daily.

From Fridays Daily.
John Eichorst, carpenter. living in
the Johnson fiat building on the North
Side, is looking for his two sons,
George, aged six, and Clifford, aged
eleven. He declares that The two boys
were kidnapped and taken away on
the train that leaves over the Omaha
about noon for Sioux City. The boys
he says, disappeared yesterday. He
suspects his divorced wife.
1t seems that the two little boys
were living with their father, in the
Johnson flats. The older boy was gu
ing to school and was helping to
take care of the younger. They seem
to have been in the habit of taking a
little wagon and going over to the
railroad yards to pick up stray coal
and wheat. The father has a horse,
and the wheat was sometimes used
to feed that animal, it is said.
Was Told of Disappearance.
The father has been working as q
carpenter on the remodeling or the
Masonic building. Yesterday he re-
ceiyed word that his two children
had disappeared and he fastened TO
look for them. He was told that a
man had placed them on board the
Sioux City train. He hurried to the
telegrapher at the station and got
him to send out Inquiries in regard to
the children.
Mr.. Tenney managed to get into
communication with the conductor of
that Omaha train, Joe Weber. The
latter wired back from Bingham that
he had seen the children on the train,
and from what he said it was OWNED
that the boys had been taken by a
man and turned over to a woman 1t
seemed that it was the mother of the
boys who had charge of them.
Mr.. Eichorst declared that that
woman was probably his divorced
wife. He was crying over the disap-
pearance of his two little boys. He at
once made arrangements to go to st.
Peter, and there he laid the matter
before the sheriff and the county at
torney.
Sent Inquiry to Sioux Falls.
Mr.. Eichorst today related that
while at ST. Peter he sent a tele-
gram to friend of his at Sioux Falls,
S. D., a hackman Three years ago
Mr.. Eichorst and his family made
their home at Sioux Falls. He in
CURED of this friend about his Ill
vorced wife and boys. The friend TO-
piled, Mr.. Eichorst said today, that
he had seen the woman and the two
little boys at Sioux Falls that very
night about six o'clock.
Mr.. Eichorst was convinced that
his wife had gone directly to Sioux
Falls with the boys He had a sus-
picion, he said, that the man who took
the little boys was the very man WHO
ran away with his wife at Sioux Falls
some years ago.
Mr.. Eichorst today told the story of
his domestic happiness. He said it
was a boarder in :. his home who
stepped in between himself and wife,
when the latter did contracting work
for himself at Sioux Falls. One day,
after Mr.. Eichorst had been away for
about week, he came home and was
told by his little boys that their
mother had been gone for four days
- Secured Divorce.
Mr.. Eichorst relates that ne told
his wife that il she wanted to go
with this man she could He would
have nothing more to do with her. He
commenced action for divorce and
was awarded the decree with the
custody of the children. He said he
had five children in all. Three of
these, older than the two who disap-
peared, he placed with their grand
mother, his wife's mother, Mrs
Keene, living seven miles from LIE
Sueur Center. The other two he kept
in his own care
Mr.. Eichorst says he came to Man.
kato last fall. Before that he lived for
a time in Canada. He says he in
tends to prosecute his divorced wife
on the charge of kidnapping, and will
attempt to find her and bring back
the children.