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li e L.- T A C I UflEKI ABEA* T Mm ■ V7^/]Mrs. E. D. Berry Tells Kewanee3Police of Kidnapping of Herself and Children.£lt;TAKEN BY HORSE TRADERKept Under Guard Four Weeks Traveling from Marshalltown to Kewanee.Kidnaped with her two children, on a country road near Marshalltown, Iowa, and taken to Kewanee* In a mover’s wagon by a horse trader, Is the substance of a tale told the police of the latter city by Mrs. E. D. Berry, a good-looking young woman of about 24 years. While camping with -the horse trader Severn I miles northeast of Kewanee, Mrs. Berry oscaped last Tuesday while Haskell, the trader, was in Kewanee, and with her children made her escape to the home of Richard Wantland living near townFearing lest Haskell, upon discovering her escape, would search the neighborhood for her, Mrs. Berry and her children hid in the upstais apartments of the house Mrs Wantland went to Kewanee and told the police of the strange affair, and an officer brought Mrs. Berry and her children to the city and detained them while he te!egraph«*lt;i to the sheriff of Marshal! county, stating that Mrs Berry and her children luid been found The telegram was e v icb-nt ly turned over to Mr Berry, for an answer was received asking that Mrs Berry and the children be sent t«» Searsburo at once They were giv« u tUkets at Burlington !«.wa, and left apparently overjoy .*d at their deliveranceTELLS EXPERIENCEMrs Berry told the following story to the police With her children, a girl aged 5 and a b.»v ? years old she Ivft her home in Marshalltown Iowa, four w**eks ago to go tlt; Searsburo to visit her brother Haskell, with whom *!,. * fligh i .u qu.ntited was at I hlt; unn c.imping along the road at iin* ••utbkirts «*f Marshalltown, andlt; ii.in* mg to in* ♦ Mrs Beny volun-»red to give* h«*r and the children aid- *. Searsbof in his covered wag-Iclt;I1IIii1tiITIIt\£IonMi* Berry a e»jt**d the invitation md lt;par* *tnried but instead of tj.MiK 11'Wtird Soar -boro Hbk« 11 head-d ■- -am east toward UltnoH All j, u . in y trav« i«*d and when Mrs. Ben\ »M*e tained Haskells intentions i v\«i* too lat* f«»r her to protest, as Hu*K* 11 gunrdiil lor closely They 1,I\ led nights in thi covered wagon and lt;amped out during the day along In roadside, all the time making loir way eastward |lt;Finally they n o bed Galei-buig and 11 hp**:it Sttml u i h» re 10 days ago lh it Mrh Berry had a chance to writ** a ft w lm«*s and drop a letter I.* her brother at Seasboro telling «f lo*r misfortune She said she beloved Haskedi w »uld go to Peoria, and disclosed this information in h» r letterkeVi vigilant watchInstead **f going toward Peoria Has k 1 headed coward Kewanee having suiph lonod, as Mrs Berry believes, ihat an effort was being made to overtake him The greater part of lastw**ek the party was in camp west ofKewanee Haskell all the while kee] ing a vigilant watch Monday they started on and moved to a point a few miles «*ast of the city on th* Lake street roadTuesday Haskell’s untiring watchfulness was shaken for the first time, and he left Mrs. Berry and the children and started toward K«*wane-»Profiting by this, her first opportunity to fr«*e herself, the woman after telling »f her plans to her children, fled from the camp and asked admission at the Wantland homeThe police are inclined to doubt the truth fulness of Mrs. Berry's story and favor the opinion that she willinglyleft Marshalltown with Haskell
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Moline Daily Journal
Moline, Illinois, US
Mon, Oct 03, 1904
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