Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-21
INJURED VICTIM OF
HOLDUP DISAPPEARS

Mason City Puzzled When Woman
Vanishes After Being Picked Up
Unconscious-Said She Had Boon
Thrown From Car After Being
Robbed-Had Ugly Head Wound.
Special to Times Republican.
Mason City. Aug. 21.-Officers are
still striving to untangle strange
mystery here in the search for an
unknown man and woman who drove
Ford car to Clear Lake Thursday
night and, after -obbing Des
Moines woman. threw her out of
their car and made a getaway
The woman, who was 80 years old,
gave several names. At one time
she claimed to be Mrs. Edward VIII
cults, of Des Moines. At another
she said she was Mrs. Ella Walcott.
Each time. however, she stated that
she was a resident of Des Moines.
She was found unconscious on the
Mason City-Clear Lake pavement
about half way to Clear Lake Thurs
day night at $3.50 o'clock by two
Idhcu " Tic llOSplIdl,
a dangerous, two-cornered wound
was found on the left side Of her
head.
She was still weak and did not
talk nationally. The wound was
sewed by physicians and she gave
this story to them:
MY husband and / came up from
Des Moines to attend the Mason City
fair. We have a room at the Cerro
Gordo hotel. I went out riding with
man and woman to whom I had
been introduced earlier in the eve
ming. 1t was about $3.50 o'clock and
when we We're out on the Clear Lake
road that my new friends tried to
rob me. They succeeded in getting
my purse and a small amount Of
money. They missed a larger sum
of money on my person.
II put up fight and screamed
Angered at their failure to obtain
more money from me. they pushed
me from the car and fell head fore
most onto the hard pavement.
Strangers coming along shortly aft
erward picked me UP and brought
me here. do not know the two men
who carried me here"
The two men who carried the In
tured woman to the hospital disap-
peared Immediately afterward and al.
trace OF them has been lost The
woman giving various names has
also disappeared. She was seen to
enter side door Of the Cerro Gordo
hotel at 10 o'clock last night. Her
head was tied In a bandage.
The woman, while being given at
tention at the hospital. made state
ment to one OF the attending physi-
clans that she was going to check out
for an early train to Des Moines.
A train left here at 3 O'clock Friday
morning.
Efforts to place the woman at the
Cerro Gordo hotel were fruitless.
For time it was believed that she
was Mrs. Edward Wilson Of Des
Moines, who leftSher husband at 1886
o'clock Thursday night and drove in
a car to the Hotel Oaks at Clear
Lake. Mr.. and Mrs. Wilson, the
husband commercial traveller out
of Des Moines, had been at the Cerro
Gordo hotel. But it was found that
Mrs. Wilson was not the injured
woman.
The Des Moines woman wore a wig
OF reddish tinge, beneath which her
red hair was bobbed. She claimed
her hair had been bobbed at hos
pital in Des Moines following an
operation.
| Anita-Siego Hansen, 12-yearsold
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Hans L. Hansen,
| was smothered to death Tuesday In
an oats bin, at the Tally farm. two
| miles northeast of town, where the
Hansen family resides. The lifeless
| body was discovered by Guy Stein
| metz. one Of the neighbors assisting
In the threshing. who was loading
oats from the bin. The bin was over
the corn crib. The spout thru which
the oats were passing into Stein
| metz's wagon became clogged, and