The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1925-02-05
MOTHER LOCATES
STOLEN DAUGHTER
Katie Engel, Stolen from
Mother in Montana in
1889, Located Here.
SOLVED BY SCHOLEY
Crusading Constable Departs
From Beaten Path and
Solves Problem.

Finding a daughter, stolen from her
mother in Montana more than thirty
years ago, was the unusual role of
Constable John Scholey, the well-known
rum raider, here on Friday evening.
The daughter, who was located through
persons in Kenosha is Miss Catherine
Stein, now in Summerdale, Alabama,
who will soon be reunited with her
mother, Mrs. August Krauth, of Mill
town, Montana, from whom she is said
to have been stolen by her father when
she was three years of age in 1889.
How the whereabouts of the daugh-
ter were ascertained by Constable John
Scholey on Friday is most interest
ing story and of course, since the
crusading constable features in it,
must hinge somewhere on a rum raid.
And so it does, for it was while he
was on an unsuccessful liquor raid
that Constable John Scholey stumbled
across the information which helped
him to locate the long lost daughter
for the distracted mother in Montana.
Received Letter Yesterday.
Friday morning District Attorney
Lewis Powell received the letter
from the mother in Midtown, Mon
tana, which started the search. This
letter read as follows:
Midtown, Montana.
County Attorney
Dear Sir: Katie Engel disappeared
from Wickes, Montana, in 1889. She
was then about three years old. Her
father stole her and took her to Ke-
In 7 Jo1.o Nd he M
by name of Engle or else by the name
of his sister, Mrs. Fred Stein.
Would you please look up the CEN
sus taken from 1889 to the present
date and find out as much as possible
about her. She is my daughter and
l haven't been able to find anything
about her since I last saw her at
the time stated above.
Please write as soon as possible
and let me know everything that
you can find out.
Yours very sincerely,
4 Mrs August Krauth.
Constable Scholey happened to be
in the office of the district attorney
when the letter was received and was
told of the affair.
Raid Unsuccessful but
Friday afternoon Constable Scholey
went about his routine raiding pro-
gram. He drove out to the Herman
Buck place at Powers Lake and to
the Bernhoff place at Bassetts but
found no liquor at either place. While
returning from this unsuccessful raid,
he happened to tell the driver of the
automobile which had been used to
take him on the raid, about the girl
who was stolen in Montana in 1889 and
whose mother was now looking for her.
"Why, l know that GIRL" said the
driver. "She lived here until few
years ago but is now somewhere down
south. 1 can tell you her chum's name
and you can locate her Immediately"
Returning to Kenosha, Constable
Scholey located the "chum" named by
the driver, Kenosha woman who is
in correspondence with the long lost
daughter. The girl while in Kenosha
had gone under the name of Catherine
Stein, but she had told some of her
acauaintances here enough of her early
life to make certain that she is the
Katie Engel, whom the Montana moth
err is seeking.
Accordingly acting on the informa-
ton furnished by Constable Scholey,
District Attorney Powell today wrote
to the mother in Montana, telling her
the present whereabouts of her daugh-
ter and directing her how reunion
might be affected.