Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — EVIDENTLY GONE FOR KEEPS. [ARTICLE]

EVIDENTLY GONE FOR KEEPS.

No tidings has been received from H. C. Reed, landlord of the Nowels. House, since he mysteriously left home on April 16. He left the hotel after dinner of the day he pnlled out without stating any special business he had on hand, and it seems took the southbound train for Lafayette where he remained that night at the home of 0. E. Jolly, formerly of Rensselaer, and told the latter that he was going to Cincinnati. He left the next morning on an interurban car for Indianapolis, since which nothing has been heard from him. Hs he has a mother and brothers at Covington, Ky., just across the river from Cincinnati, it is thought he may have gone there. According to his wife’s statement he had some 1300 in his pocket when he left, which was the profits arising out of the hotel business since they have'had charge of same, their business having been fairly prosperous, and that he left her with only sl2. She also states that she thinks his mind has been affected somewhat of late. No trouble had been had between them, she says, and she can imagine no other reason for his apparent desertion. Mr. Reed had been in charge of the hotel for some six months, previous to which time he was working principally at his trade of painter and paper hanger. He is some 17 years the junior of his wife, to whom he was married at Lafayette in 1889, is 39 years of age and of good habits. Mrs. Reed has attempted to enlist the services of the police at Covington, but they declined to make any investigation unless an officer from bete came on to accompany them.