THOUGHT THE CHILD WAS DEAD.
Neighbors Dragged Pond While She
Waited at a Street Corner.
There was considerable excitement for an hour last night in the vicinity of Sixth street and Tenney avenue, Kansas City, Kas., when the report was circulated that Fannie Wherrett, 12 years old, who lives with her mother, Mrs. Martha Wherrett, at 718 Tenney avenue, was missing and had probably been killed and thrown into a pond near the home by burglars. In a few minutes after the alarm was sounded about a hundred friends and neighbors were at the place engaged in dragging the pond and searching for the little girl.
Detective Harry Anderson was sent from police headquarters to investigate. Anderson found the child waiting for a car near the Sixth street tracks, where she had gone nearly an hour before to wait for the coming of her mother, whom she supposed to be shopping in Kansas City, Mo.
