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LIZZIE BUEHLER.n Attempt Made by Some Stranger toAbduct Her.be Ram Into Shattuc, on the Jackgon-ville soatheaatern R. R., at 10 p. m. Last Night. Frightened and Bleeding at the Nose.Shortly after 6 o’clock yesterday vening Lizzie Buehler, a twelve year dd daughter of Fred Buehler, hardware merchant on the west side, was lent to the postoffice. She did not ■eturn immediately, and this being lomewhat unusual and different from iier former actions, it alarmed her parents. She had only been in Centra-lia five weeks, Mr. Buehler having brought her from Poplar Bluff, Mo. where she had been living with Mr. Buehler's first wife from whom he had been divorced. The mother of the child dying, she came into possession of Mr. Buehler by law, but the wife’s friends gave her up with some reluctance.The child net returning home, theparents sent another messenger to thepostoffice and found out that Lizzie had never been there. Quite a number of Mr. Buehler’s friends and the polico were notified and a search instituted, but no clue could be gained of her. It was nearly 9 o’cIock and no word of her had been gained, when Mr. Buehler concluded to dispatch to the conductor of a freight train on the Illinois Central that had left late in the evening to hnd out whether the child had been taken on board the train. Before an answer came back, a dispatch was received at the Jacksonville Southeastern depot stating that a little girl had come into the station at Shattuc and said she was from Centralia and was lost. She wasvery pale and tired, and her nose wasbleed ifig. The agent and his wife took the weary little traveler and quieted her fears, and aent word down here that her parents might know that she was found. The little girl stated to the agent that a man had caught herI in Centralia and taken her to the sonville Southeastern track and told her that if she did not go with him hewould kill her.
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Centralia Daily Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 13, 1885
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