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Western News Democrat
Valentine, Cherry County, Nebraska
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In Omaha, cook A. E. Spencer was arrested for kidnapping 16-year-old Helen Hopkins, who he enticed to elope and is now missing, having assumed the name Helen Williams. Spencer previously convinced Hopkins' older sister to desert her husband.
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A. E. Spencer Arrested for Enticing a Girl Away from Home.
A. E. Spencer, a cook, is locked up in Omaha charged with having kidnaped 16-year-old Helen Hopkins from her home.
The girl cannot be found, Spencer having secreted her, and he refuses to tell where she is. A trace of her was obtained at 313 South Tenth Street, but when the police went to search for her she was not to be found. She had been left at this number by Spencer, but upon his arrest had left and secreted herself somewhere in the west bottoms. It is learned that she has assumed the name of Helen Williams.
Spencer, according to Mrs. Hopkins, the missing girl's mother, coaxed her eldest daughter, who is married, to desert her husband and go west with him four months ago. She said that he deserted her daughter in Denver and returned to Omaha. He had not been in the city a week, she says, until he coaxed Helen, her next to youngest daughter, to elope with him. Mrs. Hopkins is prostrated over the loss of her daughter.
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spencer arrested and refuses to disclose girl's location; girl missing and using alias helen williams; mother prostrated.
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A. E. Spencer, a cook, arrested in Omaha for kidnapping 16-year-old Helen Hopkins by enticing her to leave home. He previously convinced her older sister to desert her husband four months ago. Girl traced to 313 South Tenth Street but fled upon his arrest, hiding in west bottoms under name Helen Williams.