Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1915 — MYSTERY IN WHITE COUNTY IS SOLVED [ARTICLE]

MYSTERY IN WHITE COUNTY IS SOLVED

Cecil Van Meter, Who Was Thought Murdered, is Safe in Pulaski County—Makes Statement. Cecil Van Meter, the young farmer whose disappearance from near Monon, several weeks ago caused a suspicion that he had been foully dealt with, has been found and has explained the cause of his leaving home and keeping his whereabouts a secret. „ Following the disappearance of Van Meter a man named Frank Hoover took up his residence at the Van Meter home. A few days ago he and Mrs. Van Meter were arrested on a charge of associating and he tried to commit suicide because he declared the charge false. Later he was released from jail and now Mrs. Van Meter has been freed.

Thursday Van Meter telephoned to his father at Buffalo that he was in Pulaski county and wanted to see his father. The old gentleman hastened to the place in Pulaski where the son said he would be and the meeting took place. He said domestic troubles had caused him to leave horn. After he

got away he feared that he would be arrested for desertion of his wife and children and he kept in hiding. He worked at Attica, Hammond and Chicago. He said he left his wife S4O and all the live stock on the farm. Probably the activity of the neighbors, whose suspicions resulted in all the ugly talk about the conduct of Mrs. Van Meter and Young Hoover, who is only 19 years old, was responsible for much injustice to them and some who went so far as to dig into soft places on the farm will now feel quite foolish. Only Thursday a wild take was circulated at Monticello to the effect that fishermen in the Tippecanoe river had dragged the body of Van Meter to the bank. The discovery of his whereabouts will set at rest the wild rumors and relieve Mrs. Van Meter and Hoover of the suspicions heaped upon them.