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THE IOWA STATE LEADER
Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
Friday Morning, May 21, 1875
Eighteen years ago MR. LEWIS MARTEN and wife, of Davenport, adopted an infant
daughter of a young couple who came to that city, and who met with such
misfortunes that they were compelled to part with their babe. The child grew up
into a beautiful woman, and only a few weeks ago became acquainted with the fact
that MR. and MRS. MARTEN were not her real parents, but the real mother lived in
the city seeing and seen by her daughter, though unrecognized. On Monday the
girl mysteriously disappeared from the home of her adopted parents, and nothing
has been seen or heard of her since. As the real mother disappeared about the
same time, they have undoubtedly fled together. Mr and Mrs Marten are in the
deepest grief. The ‘Democrat’ adds: ‘Now comes the saddest part of this
romantic story. There is not the shadow of a doubt but that this wicked mother,
who has thus spirited away her only child, has done so with the intention of
making her a bad and as vile as herself; in short that she intends to place her
in a house of prostitution in St. Louis.'
---Submitted by Becke
THE IOWA STATE LEADER
Des Moines, Polk, Iowa
Wednesday, April 25, 1877
A woman named Minnie Brannicke was shot and killed
in a house of prostitution in Davenport last Saturday. A man named Henry Thomas
has been arrested for committing the deed. The evidence against him is positive
and direct.
On Sunday morning, in the same city, a freight
conductor on the C.R.I. & P., named Charles Stafford, was stabbed in the
neck by a rough with whom Stafford and a party of friends had been quarreling.
Stafford and his friends had gone into a low dance house where they made some
reflections on the company, and in consequence were pursued by the roughs with
the result above chronicled.
On the same evening, Henry Osbar, was set upon in
the street and fearfully beat by a party of young roughs who were arrested.
---Submitted by Becke
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