The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1918-07-18
EAlNLY FOLLOW MANY CLEWs
Scores of People Search for Missing
Child But No Trace Found Of Her
Other Cities Take Up Search
Many olews Being Followed.

All Kenoshs is searching for thir-
teen year old Agnes Hahn today.
Spurred on by the appeal OF Mr.. and
Mrs. John J. Hahn, parents Of the
little girl who disappeared in mystery
on last Saturday morning and by the
action of the city in offering reward
Of one hundred dollars for the finding
of the child and an additional five
hundred dollars for the arrest and con-
viction of the person who took her
away, people in all ranks of life in
the city took new interest in the
search today.
No news Of the little girl had been
received at the Hahn home up to a
late hour this afternoon. Scores Of
people had called in over the tele-
phone, offering their services to aid
in the search and offering sympathy
TO the mother and father Of the little
girl and every call brought a new
hope to the stricken home but none
of them brought the little girl.
As the hours and days have passed
with no trace of the child being found
the mystery deepens.
Members of the family fear that it
is possible that the little girl may
have fallen into the hands of degen-
crate and that she is being held some
where in the city. Another theory is
that she had been picked up by some
one from the county and taken out
TO work in the beet fields or in the
onion patches but there is absolutely
nothing on which to base these theor-
les.
1t was discovered that the little
girl had been seen near the Gillett
school just before she disappeared on
Saturday at noon and search of the
school was made on Monday night.
Anxious relatives not only searched
all the rooms but they looked in the
garbage cans and in the furnace in the
building and even crawled through
some of the ventilating tubes. The
building had been locked on Satur-
day and it was hardly thought pos
sible that the child could have enter
ed it.
Meantime the fact that the child
was missing has been telegraphed to
surrounding cities and police officers
in these cities have joined in the
search.
Alderman Meyer presented the case
to the Common Council at it's meeting
on Monday evening and the council
promptly voted to offer rewards for
the finding of the little girl and the
larger reward for the capture of the
man or woman who lured her away
from her home.
The members of the family have fol-
lowed a hundred reports of children
seen playing in different parts of the
city but they have found nothing of
the little girl. Men in automobiles
have travelled out through the county
searching on every farm where there
appeared to be possibility that the
little girl might have found employ
ment but not one of these farms WELD
ed any clew to aid in the solution of
the mystery.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hahn are breaking
down under the continued strain caus-
cd by the long absence of their child
81 can not understand this case, I
have no theory of what has become of
this little girl" said the Chief Of Po-
lice in discussing the matter "The
ease is one that is deep in mystery.
We can find no reason that any one
should desire to take this child away.
We are equally at sea to find anv
reason why she should voluntarily
leave her home"
The possibility that the girl might
have gone to the lake to play and
gone into the water has been sug-
gested but it is not considered plaus-
ible. The child never went to the
lake to play. Members of the life
saving crew rowed up and down along
the lake Monday and today but they
found nothing to suggest the possibil-
ity that the lake might furnish the
solution to the mystery
Boy Scouts were active again TODAY
searching for the child but with the
absence of clews they found the
search a very difficult one.