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- BOONVILLE WEEKLY ADVERTISER.
Jan. 10, 1696.
A SENSATIONAL LOVE AFFAIR.
A dispatch from Rocheport to Wednesday's Republic says:
Just across the river in Cooper county the people are very much wrought up over the sensational finale of a love affair. The central figures are John Brokmeyer, son of a prominent business man of Boonville, and Miss Kate Franken.. heir to farm lands and real estate in Cooper county. The young couple were to have been married this week, and the girl's guardian and uncle, Andy Smith, hearing of it,, looked her up in a room and took her clothes away, He drove young Brookmeyer from the premises at the point of a gun, when he called to demand the girl, who is considerably over age.
After this, Smith called in Dr. Hurt, to confirm his allegations of the girl's insanity, but the doctor failed to coincide in this view, and, instead conveyed a message from the girl to her lover to rescue her by any means, Inspired by this, young Brokemeyer again went to the house, and the girl hung out of the window and threatened to leap to the ground scantily clad. Wise heads in the crowd that had gathered prevailed, and Brokmeyer went off and applied for a writ of habeas corpus. In the meantime, the girl was spirited away, taken to St Louis, and placed in a convent, where she is now. Brokmeyer is determined to have the girl at all hazards, and will no effort untried to secure to 'himself the presence of his loved one."
With the exception of two or three statements, the above version of the affair is substantially correct. A writ of habeas corpus was not issued, and, although the girl has been spirited away to St Louis, it is not positively known that she is in a convent there.
Jan. 17, 1896.
TO THE PUBLIC.
To the Editor of the Advertiser.
Boonville, Mo. Jan 15,, 1896.
As you published in your issue of January 10th as article from the St Louis Republic, we ask you to allow us space for the following corrections:
First--Mr. Smith is not now and never has been Miss Franken's guardian. See records at courthouse,
Second--Miss Franken was not looked up or restrained. Judge Parsons and others can testify to this. Mr. Brokmeyer was not driven away at the point of a gun. We objected to Mr. Brokmeyer seeing Miss Franken, after we were convinced that he mind was affected and not until then.
Third--Mr. Smith did send for Miss Franken. Mr. Brokmeyer brought her to Mr. Smith's house, and was the first to discover that there was something wrong, mentally, with Miss Franken, and advised that Miss Franken be sent off for treatment. Dr. Hurt was sent for, and the fact that Dr. Hurt brought Prof. Ross and Mr. Joe Kinney to mesmerize Miss Franken and remove her delusions, prove that the Doctor was also of the opinion that there was something wrong with Miss Franken's mind.
Fourth--Miss Franken was not taken to St Louis, on Saturday, against her will; but, on the contrary, she was not taken until Sunday morning, and then at her request. She is not at a convent; she is in St Vincent's Institute, under the care of specialists.
Fifth--We did what we did because we considered her not responsible for her actions. All reports not in accord with the facts as here stated are false. We are sorry that we, at this time, are compelled to make a statement of the facts. We would much rather, for the sake of Miss Franken, have remained silent; but, in justice to all, we thought it best to state the facts.
Respectfully,
A. SMITH
ROBT.FRANKEN
MRS.A SMITH.
Boonville Weekly Advertiser
Tuesday May 2, 1922
BRINGS BLOODHOUNDS HERE.
To Help in Search for Miss Kate Franken Who
Disappeared Saturday Morning.
Miss Kate Franken who has lived In Boonville all her life and who is well known here disappeared from the home of Anthony Smith where she resided. She had been in ill health for some time and left the home Saturday morning to go downtown, where she was to have her eyes treated, and when she did not return for dinner, Mrs. Smith called many of her friends to see if she was there. On finding that she was not at any of these places a general search began. Many reports of where she was last seen, was that she had been around the Catholic cemetery and the country for miles a around were searched but no trace of her has been found.
The bloodhounds were 'brought from Moberly today and were taken to the home of A. Smith where they were unable to get any track of her and were taken to the cemetery where she was last seen and is now working around that part of the city. The dogs have made several trips from the cemetery to the bank of the river which it is feared that she may have drowned herself.
Miss Franken was slender built, had brown eyes, dark hair and was 50 years old. When last seen she was wearing a tan suit, black turban hat and tan oxfords.
May 9, 1922.
BODY OF MISS FRANKEN FOUND.
Funeral of Lady Missing Week Was held Monday
Afternoon and Buried Catholic Cemetery.
The body of Miss Kate Franken, who disappeared from her home in Boonville over a week ago, was found in the shallow water of the Missouri river about three miles of this city about three o'clock Sunday afternoon by Godfrey Vivian and a negro named Miller. The two men were walking toward Boonville when they noticed an object about one hundred yards out and after considerable effort on the part of the men and others who gathered at the river bank the body was recovered and brought to Boonville by the undertaker late Sunday evening.
The body was viewed by Justice W. B. Gibson Monday morning who made out a certificate vouching for the identity of the body and the cause of death. Owing to the absence of the county coroner no inquest was held.
Miss Franken, who had lived in Boonville practically all of her life, left the Anthony Smith residence on Spring street where she made her home, about 6 o'clock Saturday morning, April 29th. She had been in ill health for some time and, it was said, left with the intention of having her eyes examined.
The funeral services were held at 1:30 o'clock Monday
afternoon in the chapel of the Schwitzky undertaking parlors conducted by the Rev. FG Jennings, and burial was in the
Catholic cemetery,,
Joe., John, Herman and Frank Felten, Urban Smith and Leo Meistrell, six cousins of the deceased, were the pallbearers.
Miss Franken, who was about 50 years of age, is survived by one brother, Robert Franken, of east of Boonville and an aunt, Mrs. Anthony Smith, with whom she made her home,
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