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HE HAS VANISHED.Mysterious Disappearance of' Cbriat Lepper From His Home.Ho Leaves a TVll’o and Seven Children—Fears of Foul Play are Entertained.Christian Lepper, a resident 'of Taylor stroct, lias mysteriously disappeared from bis home find sincelast Saturday moruing not, a wordhas been beard from him by bis wife and children,The police have searched every nook and corner of the city for him witli acomplclo description and werelie an v where a bent mid liviuir he wuuhf certainly have been found,The ilisappearance of this man is one of the most mysterious of all such eases that, have come to light. Apparently there is no reason for a v voluntary withdrawal. Mr. Lop per was in easy circuiu stances and lirud very happily with his wife and a large family of ehihlreu. The house and lot on Taylor nLreet in ■ which he lived wan his own property. He is not given to cxuftssivo drinking, anti in any such event he would have left some trace - or clue 1.0 his disco very. On Saturday morning last liu had some money in his pocket, how much can nut he a?ccr-Ininfid. and left home in his working do Huts without, say i up- where he was going. Since then his wife and family have been conltonally worried u util now they are on the verge of prostration. Mrs. Lepper is convinced that her husband has mot, with foul play.TiiG missing man is 42 years old, 6 feet Ci inches tall, and weighs UU pounds.. When la ;t soon ho wore a black bat with a small hole in the crown, a pair of overalls and a pair of black trousers. Tin has a short mustache and stubby heard aboutthree nmnLhs old. Lepper form oily worked for William Oealm, but at the litue of bis mysterious disaper-r 1 anon was not working.-nF EX N S X LVA XIX VOte P AX if.The Pittsburg, Fot Wayne Chicago is tlic Only Friiud-lul 15r.tfie.li SllOWfiifT In-
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Fort Wayne Weekly Gazette
Fort Wayne, Indiana, US
Thu, Jun 07, 1894
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