The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1924-10-23
Karrow's Father Says Son
Never Kidnapped Ger
trude Litzenberger.
GIRLS MOTHER SURE
Mrs. Litzenberger Feels Certain
Daughter Would Never Have
Gone Voluntarily.

There are two sides to the story OF
the disappearance of slxteen-year-olo
Gertrude Litzenberger, the Powers
Lake school girl, who was reported 20
the authorities to be missing on last
Monday and who by her parents is be-
lieved to have either eloped with Earl
Harrow, a young man of the COM
munitv who is also missing, or who
was kidnapped by him.
August Harrow, the young man
father, thinks the girl went Willingly
with his son. -.
Mrs. Ben Litzenberger, the glrfs
mother, cannot persuade herself to pc
lieve this and thinks that some undue
influence was used to make her daugn-
ter leave home.
Lads Father Not Worried.
"I'm not looking for tnem," says
AUGUST HARROW, the young mans
father, as he laughs off the suggestion
that the girl might have been KID
naped," by his son.
aDon't worry" says he. Gertrude
wasn't kidnapped. While | don't know
where they are, they'll be home one
of these days and there Will be
different story than the kidnapping.
Powers Lake is a busy place during
the summer. Things had started TO
quiet down when the supposed No-
MAPPING was announced. For a week ~
was the only topic of discussion. Inc
hamlet has general store and TINS
was the center for the discussion OF
all new angles. There haven't been any
since the discovery of the car the girl
drove on lonely country road
But the elder Harrow never was
troubled by stories that his son hada
kidnapped the girl whom he had taken
to school for many years. ta afas
Won't Tell All. eos.
"I'm glad to tel my story he said.
az don't think it would be right TO
give all the details. But paid for
most of the new car that Earl took
when he and the girl left. He told me
about a plan he had made two weeks
ago. You can guess, probably what 1t
was. He continually said he had 20
have the car by last Monday. He got
IL inst before. And last Monday
Gertrude and Earl disappeared"
If Earl and Gertrude planned to
run away last Monday it was not the
first time, Harrow declared. Some
time ago, when Gertrude was about to
yeke milk to Bassett's Corners her new
white dress was found under the seat
CT the car by her parents. That
stopped her that time.
Maybe she had her new dress un-
Ger the seat last Monday, too,
added suggestively.
Earl'n father gave a short history
of what he calls the love affair be-
tween Gertrude and Earl.
"They have been sweethearts for
many years. At first I objected to his
going around with the girl. It had
been reported that she was only six
teen years old. But perhaps Earl saw
about that too. I think too that Earl
has certain papers in his inside coat
pocket which he obtained at Wilmot.
Father Consents to Plan. 5
Anyway, FINALLY consented to his
going with her. But Gertrude's par
ents never could see it that way. They
always insisted that she was only six
teen. Earl was ordered to keep off the
Litzenberger farm. That didn't stop
them from meeting and the Kenosha
district attorney told him he'd better
keep away from the girl if she was
sixteen. Still, know they had secret
meeting places. They didn't go very
long between times when they saw
each other. Earl took Gertrude to
school every day.
Gertrude is old enough to he mar
ried, I'm sure. Earl is twenty-Sne.
Sheriff Pabst of Kenosha was called
hu Gertrude's parents. l believe. He