Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1882-10-12
RIGHTING A WRONG.
Efforts OF woman TO Find Long
Lost FREUD.
chicago Cor. of The Republican. Sentinel.


CHICAGO, Oct. 3 Did anybody ever
know of one woman being filed with
remorse because she had cut another
woman out of "a husbandY There was
one such woman come to light--a
staid, middle-sged woman of wealth,
who more than score of years ago
robbed a girl friend in Wisconsin of
the man who should have welded her.
For two years and more this wealthy
woman, childless and widowed and
almost without kith, has been search
ing high and low through the land for
the woman she wronged. The search
has been prosecuted through Ch:ca-
90 lawyer, and has at last proved sue
cessful.
IL have just finished" said Lawyer
Purcell, young gentleman whose desk
sets in the office of Messrs. Small Il
Moore of this city, ''the most remark
able case in all my practice. A little
over year ago n business friend Of
mine in Wisconsin sent to me with
letter Of introduction an elderly Ger
man lady, whose home is within very
few miles of Milwaukee. She was
widow, without, rs she declared,
known relative in the world, and she
came to consult in regard to her will.
A fortune of between $40, 900 aud
$l0o, 900 was hers, and this she said she
wanted TO settle upon n woman whom
she had wrongcd when a girl. More
than n score of years ago, when my
elderly aud wealthy client was in her
teens, in the then little Wisconsin town
where she lived, the belle Of the place
and her dearest friend was Saxon
girl named Louisa --. Both lived
on farms and were in the middle walks
of life, neither poor noi rich. Louisa
was courted by ayoung German. Both
young women laid siege to the young
fellow.
Suddenly Louisa was forsaken by her
betrothed and my client married him.
The Tilted girl disappeared from her
home. 1t was whispered that her par
ents had cast her out of their home,
hu, they took no one into their conf
dence. Ii was everywhere believed,
however, that Louisa had gone away
to hide her shame. 1t was believed
that the girl would return. She never
did. She was after while forgotten.
1t was this fugitive girl that my client"
continued the lawyer, proposed to
make the beneficiary of her will. l
was instructed to begin search for her,
to employ officers, to fee literally. 1t
has taken me nearly two years; my
expenses, although sometimes very
la ,v,tl nd
the police at Oshkosh, at Denver, at
New York have been appealed to- l
myself made "A trip as far west ny Colo
RADIO, and some hundreds of dollars
have been paid the detectives. The
search has finally proved successful.
We have found the runaway girl and
have interviewed her. She is now
married, has four little children and
husband, not one Of whom has an ink.
ling of her history. This woman has,
because OF her one misstep, carried a
terrible burden. she lost herself, threw
Owe! home, friends, name, everything.
II would be Il pity that all woman's
heroism has accomplished should be
destroyed. shall not tell you her
real name just to I'll out the details of
= romantic story"
Tell you Of the search Oh, yes
can do that, | guess, without het-ay-
ing the woman or telling the secret of
my client"
soar search started from the girls
home. Where was thatY | can't tell
you said the lawyer after long pause,
at would betray the woman's identity.
1t is Il town very near indeed to Mi.
waukee. The fugtive's parents were
suspicious of US and if they knew any
thing of the wanderers whereabouts,
would give us no information. 1t IL my
idea that they knew their daughter
was married and feared that we meant
her i'll. After good deal OF delay we
discovered that from her home she
went TO Oshkosh, where, under the
name Of Rose Miller she went into the
employ Of a wcll-to-do family. From
Oshkosh she went to Neenah and
from Neenah to Green Bay. Here the
disgrace which caused her flight from
home overlook her. In the poor.
house Of Brown County, Wis, she
gave birth to an illegetimate child.
que tihIStu On again anu WHs lDst W
sight for four years. Her child was
adopted by a family named Sherwood.
This family had gone-no one knows
where--and the child with it. The
trail in this long search came back
again TO Oshkosh, where it was dis
covered that R1se Miller, after four
years absence, mad returned and sup
ported herself az domestic. IN 1869
the wanderer seems to have reached n
temporary haven Of rest. She was
courted by well-todo old bachelor
named Smith, whose home was at Ber-
lin, Wis; but when Smith, who was
many years his wife's senior, died, the
widow (the whilom Rose Miller) again
disappeared. From this on the search
was most painful and discouraging.
All sorts Of deceptive clues were pick
ed up, followed out, and finally aban-
doned. We thought we traced the
widow to Colorado, and then | made
trip there. We found her, thorgh,"
said Mr.. Purcell, exultingly; "we've
got her now. It's a funny case isn't
it?'