Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1908 — THOUGHT IT WAS THE MISSING EUGENE DILLY. [ARTICLE]

THOUGHT IT WAS THE MISSING EUGENE DILLY.

City Marshal Parks was notified by 'phone yesterday morning that a strange man had been located out near Sidney Holmes’ in New* ton tp., whom they thought was the missing Eugene Dllly of Trafalgar, Ind. In company with Nat Scott the marshal drove out and found the man, who had built a fire along a ditch by the new iron bridge over Curtis Creek, and had washed out some of his clothes and hung them up to dry. It ‘did not take long for them to see that it was not Mr. Dilly, both Parks and Scott being personally acquainted with the latter. The man said he was simply traveling through the country, going south, and had been in Kansas and other western states and spoke of the floods in Kansas having buried the corn under water. Corn was also poor in Illinois, he told them, but looked here like we were going to have some corn. He was a z middle-aged man, tall but rather slim, hair nearly gray and wore a dark moustache. He said his name was Mack, and that he had merely stopped to wash out his underclothes, as he thought it a good palce to do so; said he wu

going on as soon as his clothes got dry. He was left to go his way and Parks and Scott came back to town. Some of the people out there who had noted the man’s actions and resemblance to Mr. Dilly, had watched him unobserved while waiting for the officers, that he might not get away. H Not a word has been heard of Dilly since hq_ was last seen at Yeoman, Carroll county, July 25, and was going from there to Chicago on a business deal, and his family is nearly crazed over his disappearance. The Indianapolis News published his picture and description Thursday evening, and other papers have also publshed a description of the missing man, so that it is likely that he will be located ere long if he has not met with foul play, which is hardly likely. He has evidently become slightly deranged again and has wandered away.