Week of June 12 - 18

June 14, 1963

Police, Volunteers Search for 2-Year-Old Girl

Southeast Missourian

Scores of volunteers -- police estimated more than 100 -- continued an intensive search today for blond Elizabeth Ann Gill, 2, who walked away from her home at 324 S. Lorimier St., at about 4 p.m. Sunday and vanished.

The tot, one of 10 children of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gill, had been playing with her siblings when she apparently wandered away. Reports to police were that she had been seen with a tiny sand pail in her hand.

The child had been left with older children in the family while Mrs. Gill took her husband to St. Louis where he is employed.

Police were called after a search nearby failed to produce the baby. As word spread, the crowd in the neighborhood grew so large it was necessary for police to rope off the block of Lorimier in which the family resides...

June 12, 1999

Six policemen injured in melee

By Mark Bliss

Southeast Missourian

An altercation between a motorist and a Cape Girardeau police officer led to a melee in the 300 block of Good Hope early Friday as customers were leaving a nightclub.

Angry spectators threw rocks, bricks and cinder blocks at officers and patrol cars that converged on the scene.

Five Cape Girardeau police officers and a Southeast Missouri State University officer were injured.

Eight people were arrested in connection with the incident, including two Cape Girardeau brothers who fought with police.

About 20 officers from five law enforcement agencies were summoned to restore order. The incident began around 1:30 a.m. and ...

June 17, 2003

Notre Dame students save seminary grotto stones

By Scott Moyers

Southeast Missourian

A group of parochial students is saving a local piece of cherished Catholic history in an unorthodox way -- by smashing it into pieces of religious rubble.

Dozens of Notre Dame Regional High School seniors are descending upon the southeast corner of the Old St. Vincent's Seminary property in Cape Girardeau this week to tear down a grotto that was built nearly 50 years ago.

"We heard that the university was going to tear it down as part of the River Campus project," said Tony Buehrle, development director for the high school and project coordinator. "We didn't want to see it just torn down and thrown away."...