Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1908 — Perry Goodner Still Absent. [ARTICLE]

Perry Goodner Still Absent.

So far a fruitless search has been made for Perry Goodher, who skipped out from Rensselaer on Sept. 12th, taking with him a mule team which he had puchased from John K. Judy and which were mortgaged to Judy in the sum of $268. He also took a buggy he rented from John M. Knapp, the liveryman,' and he is supposed to have taken ’ another man’s wife. He left behind a wife and four children practically destitute, and the wife has been having a hard time shifting for the family since he deserted her. For some time after Good ner left it was thought by Mr. Knapp and the officers that their chances of getting him would be better if the newspapers did not say anything about hie going, but now that almost three months have transpired and Goodner has not been apprehended It seems that the search is apt to be unavailing. .The detectives for Judy, however, succeeded In recovering the mules in Chicago, and found, that Goodner had sold them at Streator, 111., soon after leaving Rensselaer. He sold the buggy at the same- time, but Mr. Knapp let that go, as the expense of getting it back would have been almost as much as the buggy was worth. The recovery of the mules was not made until some time after they were sold and by that time, of course, Goodner and his paramour, if he had one with him, and it is believed he had, were a long ways from Streator. An impression prevailed that they had gone to St. Louis, Mo., but the police there were unable to locate them. The wofnan who is thought to have accompanied him left Rensrelcer the same day that he did and she, too, has never returned. Goodner came here from Kniman about three years ago, and the former home of he and his wife was at Sheridan, <*this state. The parents of both he and his wife reside there, and are quite poor and unable to aid in the care of Mrs. Goodner and the children.

Goodner was a strong built man and seems to have been but litt e known around Rensselaer until tl e past summer when he ran a hack between this c|ty and Fountain? Park. It was only two weeks after the closing of Fountain Park that he skipped out from here. Goodner was fined in July for assault on Steve Marlin, and Marlin alleges that Goodner had struck him with a machine wrench. Marlin was badly battened up and bed several cuts about the face and head. Mr. Knapp is. convinced that the officers will catch Goodner sooner "or later and he is determined to do all in his power to bring him to justice.