Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-15
DRAG RIVER IN VAIN
SEARCHING FOR BODY
Of MRS. CARL DREYER
Fear That Mrs. Albright's Sis
ter Killed in Accident With
Her Greater Than Ever.

Fear that Mrs. Carl Dreyer, sister
of Mrs, Frank Albright, had shared
the fate Of Mrs. Albright when the lat
ter was killed Thursday night III tle
automobile accident at the bridge near
Sun River park, began to crystalline
into certain belief Saturday. Search
which extended to the ranch home of
the brewers near button made positive
the fact that Mrs. Dreyer had not been
there since Thursday afternoon late.
Investigation about the city of Great
Falls failed to reveal q hint or cleW
to her whereabouts. Dragging OF the
river by force under the direction OF
Sheriff James 2. Burns gave no trace
Of the missing woman.
Late Friday afternoon it was learned
that Mrs. Dreyer had come to the city
on the train from Shelby which arrives
I ut 7:15. No trace of her movements
has been obtained by her husband fur
ther than that she left Button for this
city.
She did not call upon him on arrival
here nor can It be stated upon whom
she did cell, for 10 one who kneW hef
h1s beer found 20 say tia. trey sew
hcc 10 Great Falls. IT is not even
known that she met her sister. Mrs.
| Albright, when the latter came to
Great Falls. but it is the theory OF the
officers who have neen irving to ASSIST
the husband in locating her and it is
his firm conviction That she did meet
her sister and that she WAS in the
automobile when it went down the en-
bankment by the river bridge resulting
in the death Of Mrs Albright and It Is
now believed in the death of Mrs
Dreyer also
When Mr.. Dreyer, on Friday after
noon learned from friends that his
wife had come to the city thursday
evening. there became a fearful slgnlfi-
canoe of the fact that he had not been
able to get word to her on the ranch'
Early Saturday morning he secured an
automobile and drove to the ranch. only
TO find that Mrs. Dreyer had not been
there since Thursday. No one had
heard from her He then hurried back
to the city and accompanied Sheriff
Burns and a force of men to the scene
of the automobile accident to make a
search for the body.
Continue Work Today.
The river was dragged for several
hours. effort being made 10 cover every
foot of the bottom near the scene OF
the tragedy. No hint of a body was
discovered. But the work was not
abandoned The searchers will take UP
I the work again this Sunday morning
and will continue it until the river has
been covered at least to its confluence
with the Missouri river. It is some u
| feet deep where the tragedy occurred
and it is the belief Of those who had
part il the dragging that the body may
| have drifted down until it came to a
sand bank That theory will guide, in
measure, the dragging today.
/ one of the puzzlng facts about the
mysterious disappearance of Mrs. Drey-
er rests III the fact that there is nc
/ telephone to the Albright ranch and sc
! far there has been no one in position
/ TO suggest how it became known to Mrs
Albright that Mrs. Dreyer was in the
! city. If the two met after the latter
reached Great Falls Thursday evening ing
! Mrs. Albright left her home at 1C
/ o'clock according 70 her husband. That
/ would mean an iterim of two and three.
i fourths hours for Mrs. Dreyer to pass