JOHNSON STILL MISSING-1911

JOHNSON, WILSON, DAWS

Posted By: cheryl Locher moonen (email)
Date: 11/29/2019 at 09:17:38

Evening Times-Republican, Saturday, Jul 22, 1911, Marshalltown, IA, Page: 8

JOHNSON STILL MISSING

Omaha Traveling Man Not Accounted
for Since Denison Fire

Denison, July 22-Furthur search of the ruins of the Daws restaurant, which was burned early Thursday morning and in which Arthur Wilson lost his life, failed to reveal the body of T. A. Johnson, the missing traveling man. Johnson had registered and it is feared that he had been burned to death. It is now believed however, that he either left town later in the evening or got away during the fire without saying anything to anyone. A traveling man, whose name was not learned, was congratulating himself on his decision Thursday night not to spend the night at the restaurant. He was there early in the evening and registered, expecting to go back there for the night. He went downtown for the evening and concluded not to go back to the restaurant.

Arthur Wilson, the young man who was burned, was only recently arrived from Devonshire, England, where he formerly lived. He came to the country to be with his brother and aunt to make his home here. He was sleeping with his brother when the fire broke out. The brother managed to make his escape.

Of course there are all kinds of speculations as to the man Johnson, but there is no foundation for any of the rumors about foul play and incendiarism other than his disappearance at so unusual a time is unaccounted for.