Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1888 — A Mysterious Disappearance. [ARTICLE]

A Mysterious Disappearance.

News comes from Keener township of the mysterious disappearance of one Chester Brockway. He went into the woods, some two or three weeks ago, to do some chopping on one of the Sigler farms, in that township . He failed to return and search* was made for him. His coat h x t tllcl a parll y emptied dinner bucket were found; also a bottle of so-called stomach bitters, about half consumed. Extensive search has been made with the expectation of finding the maiFs dead body'iFthe woods, but without result. Brockway, the missing man, is of-but. lit natural understanding and also' liable, when he has been drinking, to lose what little sense he had and to wandergaround in a demented condition. He was kept at the county poor house for a long time, a few years ago. He is a broth-er-in-law of the Mrs. Brockway who has just been taken to the insane asylum.