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Daniel S., disappears in Chicago, 1907
Posted by: kay (ID *****5332) Date: January 23, 2008 at 08:48:05
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Batavia (Illinois) Herald, Aug. 29, 1907:

Illinois State News

Believe Old Man Murdered
James Scannell Convinced His Father Was Waylaid and $500 Taken.

Daniel Scannell, 78 years old, disappeared July 9 in Chicago, under circumstances that cause his friends to believe he was murdered. A personal advertisement announcing his disappearance was place din the Sunday morning papers by his son, James Scannell, a sewer builder. The last seen of Daniel Scannell was at Forest Glen, a suburb on the St. Paul railway. He had been employed for two weeks as crossing flagman at that point and went there to draw his pay, amounting to $16. He had this money and $500 beside sewed in his clothing.

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This newspaper item is posted as a courtesy. I am not related to nor researching this family and have no further information.


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