The Daily Democrat
Marlin, Texas, Wednesday, October 28, 1914
Rosebud Has Mystery
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Watchman Disappears From
Gin -- Reported Seen Seven
Miles From -- May
Be Demented.
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(Rosebud News)
Bryant Kethley, night watchman at Marek & son's gin,
mysteriously disappeared between midnight and daylight Tuesday
morning.
E. J. Lavender, night watchman at the compress, was the last man to see
Kethley. This was about 1:30 o'clock Tuesday morning.
Hearing steam escaping at the gin he went over and found Kethley
sitting in front of the engine house asleep. Kethley was aroused
and cut off the fuel, and Lavender returned to the compress.
Going back to the gin again abaout 4 o'clock he could find nothing of
Kethley and no one has seen him since.
Foul play is suspected, as the missing man was known to have had about
seventy dollars on his person a short time before he disappeared,
and had been company with a strange man.
Searching parties were organized Wednesday. The gin tanks were all
dragged, a pair of bloody overalls were found under the freight
depot Tuesday, in the pockets of which were six cents, but they did
not belong to the missing man.
Seen North of Rosebud
Rosebud, Texas, Oct. 23. -- Kethley is reported to have
been seen seven miles north of town, and a party of citizens left
here this afternoon to locate him. It is now believed that he
wandered off while in a demented condition.