WERE FAR FROM DROWNED.
Leaky Boat Voyagers Return and
Quiet Fears for Safety.
While his brother-in-law, John F. Marshall, 318 1/2 North Ninth street, was searching up and down the banks of the Missouri river for his body, Fred Marshall, a young man of 20 years, and his companion, Earle Allen, 33 years of age, were hunting rabbits and immensely enjoying the sport. The number of rabbits killed by the young men was entirely lost sight of when they reached Kansas City, about 6:30 o'clock yesterday afternoon, and learned that the police and river men had been instructed to search for their bodies, it being supposed by relatives that they had been drowned in the muddy waters of the Missouri.
Thursday afternoon Fred Marshall and Earle Allen, with two companions, decided to row down the Missouri river in search of ducks and rabbits. But the boat was leaky and the two companions balked at the journey across and were left on this side. Marshall and Allen crossed the river and found the sport good. They quit hunting about sundown and decided to spend the night at the home of John Harris, a farmer who lives a few miles below this city. Fred Marshall telephoned the Gladstone hotel just across the street from his brother's rooms and asked that word be sent that he would spend the night on the farm. The clerk or porter who answered the call failed to deliver the message. His oversight caused the alarm.
