Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1896 — Emma DeKoker Not Fonnd. [ARTICLE]

Emma DeKoker Not Fonnd.

Two weeks ago Ths Rkpubucsn published the facts of the disappearance of Emma DeKoker, daughter of A. DeKoker ofDeMotte, and with the closing fltatemSnt, added jost as we went to press, that the. girl had been fonnd in a Chicago hospital and sent to an Illinois insane asylum. Thu last statement, we regret to say, was a false report. We regret that it is false, because to have found her, even in an insane condition, would have been a great relief to her distracted parents. When the girl disappeared she was working at the home of an uncle, also a Mr. DeKoker, at Burnside, a Chicago sabarb near Pullman. On Nov. 12th her aunt, the lady for whom she worked, went into the city, and told Emma, before she left, to go to a drug store in Bnrnside and procure some medicine for her (Emma’s) burned arm. About noon Emma left the house, intending as was sup-, posed to go to the drug store, bat she did not go there and has never since. The most strenuous efforts have been made to find her, both by her relatives and by the Chicago police, bat all without avail. There was no imaginable cause for her going away, farther than that she bad lately been acting in a manner that indicated approaching insanity. Bat even if she wandered away in an insane condition it is strange that she has not been found. Or if, while in that condition she lost her life, throngh suicide or other means, it is not the less strange that her body has not been discovered. It is a strange case all aronnd, as well a very sad one.