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The search for Zelma Osborn, a Codell girl, continues a mystery with the parents. S. A. Turner, a Kansas City electrician, is charged with inducing the girl to go with him under the pretense of going to Middleton, Ohio to visit the girl’s sister. Mr. Osborn says Turner came to Codell to visit in May. He is the brother of Osborn’s second wife—the girl’s stepmother. Hearing Zelma Osborn declare she wished to visit her sister in Ohio and being dissatisfied at home, Turner proposed to take her to Kansas City in his car, promising to pay her railroad fair on to Ohio. The father remonstrated and advised the girl to remain at home to continue her music studies with her stepmother. On May 15th, Zelma left for Ohio with Turner and has not been heard from since. The father became anxious because he had not heard from the daughter, but supposed she had arrived safely in Ohio. Last week the sister from Ohio came to Codell and it was then Osborn first learned that Zelma had never reached Middleton. He immediately began a search and notified authorities. Turner is 43 years old, weighs 185 pounds, is married and has three children. He is tall, has red hair and false teeth. The girl is dark, weighs 130 pounds and her hair was not bobbed when she left home. The car was an Overland touring model number 85. Osborn has been informed that parties answering to the description stopped in Salina the day of Miss Osborn’s disappearance and ate in a restaurant. The girl was said to have expressed a wish to return home. Turner’s family in Kansas City cannot be located. The girl’s mother died of the influenza during the war. One hundred dollars in reward is offered by the father for the return of the girl or Turner.