Friday Morning, May 21, 1875

 

Eighteen years ago MR. LEWIS MARTEN and wife, of Davenport, adopted an infant daughter of a young couple who came to that city, and who met with such misfortunes that they were compelled to part with their babe. The child grew up into a beautiful woman, and only a few weeks ago became acquainted with the fact that MR. and MRS. MARTEN were not her real parents, but the real mother lived in the city seeing and seen by her daughter, though unrecognized. On Monday the girl mysteriously disappeared from the home of her adopted parents, and nothing has been seen or heard of her since. As the real mother disappeared about the same time, they have undoubtedly fled together. Mr and Mrs Marten are in the deepest grief. The ‘Democrat’ adds: ‘Now comes the saddest part of this romantic story. There is not the shadow of a doubt but that this wicked mother, who has thus spirited away her only child, has done so with the intention of making her a bad and as vile as herself; in short that she intends to place her in a house of prostitution in St. Louis.'

---Submitted by Becke

Wednesday, April 25, 1877

 

A woman named Minnie Brannicke was shot and killed in a house of prostitution in Davenport last Saturday. A man named Henry Thomas has been arrested for committing the deed. The evidence against him is positive and direct.

 

On Sunday morning, in the same city, a freight conductor on the C.R.I. & P., named Charles Stafford, was stabbed in the neck by a rough with whom Stafford and a party of friends had been quarreling. Stafford and his friends had gone into a low dance house where they made some reflections on the company, and in consequence were pursued by the roughs with the result above chronicled.

 

On the same evening, Henry Osbar, was set upon in the street and fearfully beat by a party of young roughs who were arrested.

 ---Submitted by Becke