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- Niagara Gazette - 2/5/1921
In the hope of locating his wife, who
disappeared from her home here November
29, 1920, and h a s not been seen
or heard from since, Fred Wahl, formerly
of this city, now confined to the
county jail, where he awaits trial for
alleged highway robbery, h a s laid bare
hit domestic troubles. The only child
of the Wahls, Kenneth, a boy of two
years, cannot be reconciled to h i s mother's
absence, and It is chiefly for h is
sake t h a t Fred Wahl is making an effort
to find h i s wife.
In an account of. t h e disappearance
of her daughter, formerly Miss Emily
Sparling, her mother. Mrs. James B.
Sparling, of No.. 817 Pierce avenue,
blames her daughter's men admirers
for the young woman's desertion of her
child. Mrs. Sparling states that after
Fred Wahl's arrest, Mrs. Wahl announced
her decision to get "a s much
fun as she could out of the world." in
spite of her husband's arrest, and the
demands that her child made upon hr.
She frequently went to parties and
dances, and for thia reason, her mother,
with whom she had made her home,
after her husband's arrest, though,
nothing of the f a c t that she h a d not
returned home after work on t h e night
of November 29. On t h e morning of
that date, she had t a k e n h e r lunch and
gone to her work a t t h e plant of t he
Rogers Silver company, without leaving
word that anything unusual was
to happen.
But when she had not returned the
following day, Mrs. Sparling became
alarmed and inquired for her daughter
at the Rogers plant. She learned that
Mrs. Wahl had drawn her pay, but
had told no one of her plans for using
it. Further inquiry led to the belief
that she .had left the city with a man.
The man with whom she was keeping
company at that time was Roy Diezel,
a machinist of this city.
After her disappearance, a brother
of Mrs. Wahl confessed that his sister
had told him she might be leaving
Niagara Falls some day to conduct a
restaurant for railroad men a t Corning.
She had also mentioned going to
Batavia. At any r a t e , she asked her
brother not to tell what she had con-
fided to him, for she would write to
the family in a few weeks after her
departure to tell them all about herself.
No word from the young woman,
however, has been received by her
family, and the Batavia police, to whom
Fred Wahl has appealed for help In
locating his wife, h a v e replied that
they know nothing of her whereabouts.
Mrs. Wahl was about 24 years of age,
shoit. slender and neat In appearance.
She had light hair and blue gray eyes
Her family will appreciate any clue
that, may be given them Concerning her
whereabouts.
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Abt 1898 - Yes, date unknown