Orphan Girl Finds Home   

Discovered by an Uncle She Had Never Seen Before

Special Dispatch to the World-Herald

Grand Island, Neb., Jan 22 --  H. A. Northrup of Salina, Kansas, arrived in this city about ten days ago.

Northrup is an old soldier, who had a brother in the Soldiers home of this city.

Northrup himself is also a veteran.  The two had not seen each other for forty years.  The brother at the home passed away six weeks ago and the Salina kinsman did not learn of it until he stepped off the train here to go out to the home, when a comrade of the days of 1865 met him and told of the death of his brother.

Northrup was deeply affected and at once made inquiries for this brothers family.  He was informed that he left a daughter at Wood River.  Proceeding to that city he found Miss Gertie Northrup the daughter, working as a domestic in the home of A. C. Collins, a prominent farmer, where she had a good home.

He convinced her that he could make the lot of his brothers daughter easier and she accompanied him to his home at Salina, where he is a prominent contractor and builder.

Stranger

Grand Island, Neb., Feb. 8.—The finding of the mutilated body of 10-year-old Goldie Williams today by persons who have been searching for her since she disappeared Tuesday, added impetus to the hunt for a stranger who enticed heraway.

The body bore marks of violence and was found in a deserted house partially covered with lime and jammed under a dismantled door.

A stranger answering the description of a peddler was arrested at Aurora this morning but was released before the officers arrived. Officers are now pursuing him.

Further search today of the house in which the crime was committed resulted in the finding of some

thread samples which had been carried by a peddler.

Galveston Daily News - 1912-02-09

Transcribed and Contributed by:  Barbara Ziegenmeyer