Show THE MISSING MYRTLE The Case Against Hoftheimer and Eberly Continued WHAT THE MOTHER BELIEVES She Alleges that Myrtle was Abducted For the Purposes of ProstitutionThe Defendants De-fendants Denial The news of the arrest on Thursday wght of W T Hoffhelmer and Clarence Eberly qn the chargo of abducting Miss Myrtle Wellington 1 created great sensation sensa-tion yesterday and at 2 p m thohour pet for the preliminary examination Commissioner Commis-sioner Grecnmans oOice was thronged with newspaper men and spectators who 1 expected some interesting developments S They were doomed to disappointment how r ever as the hearing did not come off Judge Powers who appeared for the defendants de-fendants announced that he was ready togo to-go on with the investigation but Mr Critchlotv said that the prosecution was not ready to proceed as some important witnesses were not present JUURO Powers Tho charge against thes < < men is a very serious one They have been published to the world as criminals and abductors and now they want a speedy examination It was nanny agreed tnat me examination examina-tion should be held on Tuesday at 10 am and tho defendants then left they having given continuing bonds in the sum of 1OOJ each on Thursday night As stated in yesterdays HEJIALD the complaint in this case is sworn to by Mrs Wellington who alleges that about three weeks ago the defendants abducted her daughter Myrtle aged seventeen for the IDRPOSES OF PROSTITUTION 0 Immediately after the disappearance of her daughter Mrs Wellington who will be remembered as the lady who for some lime kept the Dewereaux House called at at police headquarters head-quarters and made a statement of tho case 1 She said that for souietimcHoffheimer had I beeu paying attention to her daughter and appeared be much attached to her This attachment was so strong that he wanted to marry tho girl and while she certainly reciprocated his feelings to some extent the mother would not consent marriage Matters ran along in this way until over three weeks ago when Clarence Ebony a friend of Hoffhciiner and the Wellingtons called at the residence of the latter and after staying a short time went out accompanied accom-panied bv the girl According to the statements jIi state-ments made Hoffheimer was waiting out A r side in a carriage and Miss Wellington entered thevehielo and was driven off and since then the mother has heard nothing of her Marshal Young at once commenced working on the case and received information infor-mation which led him to suppose thatthe girl was in Ogdon but about this time the mother commenced investigating on her own account and so interfered with the 4 officers that they were forced to give up Jl the search searchTHE THE DEFENDANTS CLAIM to know nothing of the whereabouts of tho girl and assert that they had nothing to do with her disappearance Taken altogether alto-gether it is a most mysterious affair and it is to be hoped taat it will soon be cleared The defendants are both well knowh hsre Mr Hoffheimer cbcing tho agent of the AnheuserBusch Brewing company while Mr Eberly is a builder Tind an Odd Follow in good standing MissWellington is 17 years old and quite pretty MISSING MYRTLE FOUXD Last evening the deputy marshal found the missing girl concealed in a private esidence at Ogden where she was taken in the closed carriage < < Lat last night there were crowds ton tho itreets discussing tho matter and many threats were made to mob the men charged with robbing a mother of her daughter |