MICKEY, John H.

MICKEY, BEEMER, RHEA

Posted By: Patricia Baker (email)
Date: 10/11/2012 at 14:51:36

Morning Sun News Herald, October 1, 1903, Page 4.

Attempted Kidnapping.

The Louisa county friends and
relatives of Governor Mickey of
Nebraska, will be interested in the
following dispatch from his home
city, Lincoln, which appeared in
Tuesday's dailies:
"It has developed that an attempt
was made to kidnap the 8-year-old
daughter of Governor Mickey. While
four of the governor's children were
playing in front of the mansion an
unknown man came along and tried
to carry the oldest girl away. The
other children clung to his clothes
and screamed. The man was so badly
frightened when he saw neighbors
coming that he dropped the child
and ran.
Governor Mickey says that the
warden of the penitentiary, Beemer,
reported to him twice that a kidnapping
attempt had been prophesied
by convicts. One convict said some
time ago that such a plan had been
formed as a way of getting revenge
upon the governor for his refusal to
interfere when William Rhea was
hanged last summer for murder."