Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 June 1911 — WRITES OF WITHAM’S DISAPPEARANCE. [ARTICLE]

WRITES OF WITHAM’S DISAPPEARANCE.

Wm. M. Raska writes The Democrat from Wall, So. Dak., and says that he was running the John W. Poole farm north of Rensselaer when Clyde Witham, whose disappearance has caused the authorities to make a search of the Poole farm for his body, was working for Poole. Clyde came to his place y Raska says, and said he was going back to Benton county and settle up with Poole. “We never heard from him since,’’ says Air. Raska. Raska SayS Witham was a nice.'all ’round fellow and thought a lot of Raska’s family. “We should have heard from him,” Mr. Raska writes, “as I owed him some little money and he said he would send us his address, but we’ve never heard from him yet. I often thought of Clyde and wondered why he didn’t write.” Mr. Raska also writes more regarding Poole, but as the latter has been indicted for the murder of another farm hand Joe Kemper, and the case is pending in the Tippecanoe circuit court, we do not deem it proper to publish that part of his letter.