The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1880-06-10
A ROMANTIC HISTORY.
A SEQUEL TO THE REMARKABLE STORY OF
DETROIT GIRLS GOOD FORTUNE.

| DETROIT GIRLS GOOD FORTUNE.
Last Monday evening q well known pro-
fessional gentleman called at the editor
ial rooms of the Free Press to say that
the sketch in this paper Of last Sunday
relative to the Detroit girl whose roman
tic history and sudden rise from poverty
to fabulous wealth reminded bin of
another case, of which the details were
strikingly similar. His narrative was, in
brief, as follows:
In 1878 he was practicing medicine in
Lenawee County, Mich, and one day he
was called TO attend young lady. He
found her at the house of her parents,
who were in EXTREMIST poverty, except
for the benefices received from their
| daughter She was i'll a considerable
cordial friends. Her own history was
unusual. She was born in New York.
When an infant it was believed that her
/ mother was about to die, and the child
was adopted by a lady-the mothers
cous;n-who reared her as her own
daughter. This Cousins husband be-
came interested in the sewing machine
bussines, and was also a railroad con-
! tractor. Business called him to Rio de
Janerio, and Lisbon, Portugal. In a
| few years he amassed a colossal fortune,
died and left it all to his widow. That
bereaved lady and her foster daughter
came back to the United States. One
fatal day the young lady went out to see
some supposed friends, who invited her
to take tea with them. She accepted,
and was made the victim of conspiracy
to marry young man belonging to the
family of her hostess. They drugged
| her tea, and while in a state not of TN
| ciousness, but helpless mental enthrall-
ment, marriage ceremony was perform
ed, which made her the wife of one of
those who were anxious to secure a share
of the wealth that was to be hers. She
did not reach her foster mothers until
the following morning, when she told
her strange story. Counsel was called
in, and it was decided to procure a di-
vorce. The girls parents had moved to
Blissield, Mich, several years before,
and thither she was sent, and there the
physician who tells the story found her
as has been described. A divorce was
granted in the Lenawee Circuit, and the
Adrian Times published a fragmentary
history of the case. The girl was accom-
plished in music, French, Italian, and
Spanish, and was in every respect
remarkably brilliant person. Her real
name was Jessie Moore, and her family
still live in Bhssfeld. After she obtain
ed a divorce she rejoined her foster moth
er and returned to Rio Janerio, where
she died of yellow fever, in the bloom of
womanhood, Jan. 19, 1874, and where
her remains now lie sepultured in almost
royal state.
"What was the name of the girls fos-
ter mother2" was asked of the doctor.
''It has quite passed out of my recol-
lection" he replied: ''but / shall never
forget what lovely character that young
woman was. / know that she was well
acquainted with Dom Pedro, the Emper-
or of Brazil-not from anything which
she told me, specially, for she was too
| modest to say much about herself; but
/ took deep interest in her and learned
great deal of her career that she never
knew l was aware of. l have always
looked upon her death as one of the
saddest tragedies that ever came within
my experience.
"Do you think you would know her
| adopted name if you were to see it?'
81 might-yes, I am pretty sure I
should, was the doctors response.
The reporter took from drawer and
handed to the doctor an envelope bear
ing this postmarll: "RIO DE JANERIO
3-D-E-Z-1879." Printed across
the face of the envelope-in kind of
water mark-was the name: 'tF. G. o.
Guimaraes ct Cia.''
"My God!" exclaimed the visitor, s'that
is the identical name! Where did you get
this3 What do you know Of the casel"
"Doctor, this is only one more proof
that we can go TO truth for much strang-
er things than were ever found in the
realm of imagination. Sonora Guimar-
aes is none other than the foster mother
of the former Detroit girl, the subject of
that sketch which you read in the Free
Press of last Sunday. When Jessie
| died the stricken woman, who had always
been denied child of her own, remenl-
bered that she had niece in Detroit,
and hither she came in course Of time as
fast as steam could carry her, prepared
to adopt Emma(for it may as well be
known that it was Emma Burnett, daugh-
ter of the Woodward avenue ieweler who
accidentally shot himself few years
ago1, met with the reception of which
you have already been told in print, and
left for Rio de Janerio with her new
foster daughter in the autumn of 1878. -
Emma Burnett (or Guimaraes as she
is now known) is now III Detroit, and
this story, word for word, has been con-
firmed by personal interview with her.
Verify the mutations Of human life are
sometimes wonderfully romantic. The
history of those two girls is a series oi
condolences that in play would be
laughed at as something utterly beyond
the pale of even dramatic probability,
and yet in this narrative there is not the
slightest reportorial coloring.
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