The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1875-08-02
he ElOpememt Of q Providence Greece
with Another Mans Wife.

From the Providence Journal, July 20.1
Many Of our older citizens will readily
recall the excitement that was created %
years ago at the mysterious disappear
ance Of Mr.. Jeremiah Perez, well-to-do
grocer Of Sabin street. leaving a wife and
two children (all Of whom are now living
and at about the same time the sudden
disappearance of Mrs. Harrington, wife
of Thomas NJ. Harrington. A short
time afterward, about six months, Mrs.
Harrington returned in an apparently
penitent mood, and had an interview with
her husband, at which she received per-
mission to take one of her children.
named Mary, five years Of age, (there
were three children in all, q sister older
and brother younger than Nary down
the street with her to purchase for her
some needed articles of apparel, and was
to return with her by six o'clock that
evening. From that time the father
heard nothing more from either child or
the mother until within few weeks, and
they have long been supposed to be dead.
Nor did tie family and friends of Mr..
Perez hear anything from him. In the
Evening Bulletin of Friday, May 2lst
last, appeared the following:
UTANTED-To know the whereabouts Of
w any person by the name OF Harding,
Studley or Harrington, who has resided in
Providence for the last twelve or fourteen
years, or OF any persons who are akin to any
family of this name. A lady in this city who
has relatives with these names is DESTROYS OF
hearing from them. Address Nat. g. Barter,
Business Manager, Sentinel and Pioneer, Fort
Scott, Kan.
| This was seen the same evening by Mr..
Harrington, the brother Of the girl who
had been long missing. and he at once
forwarded telegram to the above ad
dress, saying that there were persons Of
all these names living in this city, and
that one Of them had daughter stoleI
about twenty-three years ago, who hae
never been heard from. This was re
ceived At Fort Scott at 8 o'clock the next
morning, and by noon despatch in an
swer was received here which brough
young Mr.. Harrington and his father tn,
joyful news that their long lost sister ant
daughter was still living.
The girl, now married and the mother
of two children, yet remembered erougi
of early life to assure her relatives in thi
city Of this, had not her mother, who il
still living, put her in possession Of othe,
facts. As soon as she could make ar
rangements she came from her home il
, Fort Scott to visit her relatives, and ar
j rived in this city few days ago. Sh
distinctly remembers her mother prom
Using her father to take her back At 81.
o'clock on the day on which she wa
!. stolen. She says she was wit
her mother two or three day
before she realized that sh
was being taken away from home. Sh
remembers Mr.. Perez joining them, bu
] does not know where. He had change
! his name to Charles Pierce, and laugh
}, her to call herself "Mary Pierce" The
q spent about year in Dubuque and Sair
Paul, and then went to Texas, where Nj
!. Pcrce Was engaged in raising cattle an
J. sheep. at times doing very we'll, and I
!. times not 50 we'll. They remained in TIE,
s as for some years, and then removed
r near Baxter Springs, Kansas, where n
= Perez, Who had been failing in health 4
two years, died, about fourteen years az
f leaving three sons by Mrs. Harringto
!. all Of whom are living. She says he VI
!. at one time Universalist clergyman, ~
: at another Spiritualist.
In all her wanderings she never forg
that her name was Harrington. She .
sumed her own name - soon As N
Pierce died, and At once set herself
8 work to learn il possible the whereabou
y Of her father and other relatives, shou
y any OF them be alive. Time passed 0
= she grew to womanhood, and married n
= Nat. G. Barter. business manager Of t
= Sentinel and Pioneer, Fort Scott, IA
sas. where she now lives.