Star – Clipper Supplement
Traer, Iowa, ?, 1887
History of North Tama
By Daniel Connell

CHAPTER XXVIII
A Disappearance

In the fall of 1886 Johannes Hohn was working for H. A. Brockman, a farmer in Spring Creek, and on Oct. 6, at 10 o'clock p.m. or later he left the house of his employer, and since that day no authentic information has been received from him or concerning him. What he left the house for and in the condition he did as to clothing or money and at that late hour may never be known. That he should absent himself for nearly six months without communicating with his friends is a mystery, and the solution is in the realm of the detective service, the law department and community in which the missing man lived.