The Sunday tatler and Jersey City express. (Jersey City, N.J.) 1883-1886, 1885-02-08
AFTER TWENTY-SIX YEARS.
An Old MANS PERsESTENr SEARCH
FOE Hrs DAUGHTER.

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A Brother.fn-Law Who, Anxious for the
Otd Mans Estate. Succeeded in
Keeping ths Couple Apart.
feeble little old man, whose clothes
were even more Anticipated than himself,
stepped from Pennsylvania Railroad
train at the depot in this city on Wednes-
day last. He wore fat-brim-
med beaver, dusty and rusty with
age, and an old gray coat. When
his feet had been fixed solidly in the stone
platform. he leaned upon his cane and
looked around him with an air Of bewilder-
ment. He seemed to be astray, or uncer-
tain of his bearings, and depot employee
introduced himself to him with q view of
assisting him or guiding him. He needed
friendly aid, and he was led to the Office of
Chief of Police Murphy.
s'Well you see, sir, he said, as he put
his rusty hat on the floor at his feet and
wiped his toothless mouth with well used
bandanna handkerchief, s.a good many
years ago was young man. married,
and had q daughter. Her mother died
while she was yet young, and l mar
ried again. Ny daughter could not agree
was but IA years old, she left her home
to make her own living. At that time IIhad
inst gone to farming on clearing haG
made in Morris, town near Chicago, in
Illinois. The land yielded not much,
and | was poor at the time. But Chicago
grew up near us. New settlers came.
My land increased in value. It yielded
a handsome income. | was provident,
and gradually Irealized that had grown
rich My second wife-she's living yet,
siI-has brother, Peter johnson by name
who's undertaken to control me. He is
very anxious about the disposition I shall
make of my property. My wife, who is
his sister, is in sympathy with him.
She won't allow me to make any
reference to my darter around
the house at all, and her brother
keeps telling me, Sir, that she is no
good. The gal writes to her friends near
home once in a while, but johnson and my
wife have always refused to tell me where
she was to be found. They were afeerd,
s'pose that I'd give her all my property,
and cut the old woman out. They thought
they had me, when some time ago, they in
duced me to make viii giving her nothing
and leaving them everything but s'pose
can make another will if / like, can't /,
Sir?
Why certainly the Chief assured him.
" But you haven't told me your name yet !
eThat's Just like me- the old man re-
turned 'sIm so forgetful. My name is
Lewis Jones, Sir. Well, s twas going to say
fewdays ago, was seized with strong
impulse to see my darter, but how tC find
her couldn't tell. ALI knew was that
she came on to Brooklyn, married man
named Thomas, who has since died, and
qhat she is a widow living in that city now.
tried to learn her address, but they
wouldn't give it to me. So slipped out of
the house determined to hunt her up, got
on train, and amt quite certain where
I've got to-"
Chief Murphy consented to help him in
his search, and asked Detective Isaiah Hut
convinced that if he could only get to
Brooklyn he would have no trouble ia find
ing the 'sgal."
s'It's forty-two-- year." he said, sfsinee /
was in Brooklyn, but guess I'd know it;
and it's twenty-six year since saw my
gal, but I'm sure I'd know her if could
set eyes on her"
The old man had run out of money, and
he telegraphed to his family for seventeen
dollars Answer came back that his
brother-in-law would come on at once to
take care of him. The old man was
alarmed.
"You won't let him take me back till I've
seen my gal. he pleaded with the Chief
OF course tie Chief wouldn't He Sirected
Hutton to start on the search and be pilot
ed the old man to Brooklyn.
"Well! we'll | well r he calculated in
childish wonder as he looked on the great
city that had grown up on the farm land
he had known AZ yesrs before. s.It's
nothing like the place used to know !"
But he was not disheartened. If he
could only find Welsh family-like Taffy,
he was q Welshman himself they all knew
one another and could tell him about the
girl. But none was to be found. Then
the directory was searched for the Widow
Thomas, and every one hunted up, but not
the Widow Thomas they sought could be
found, and the searchers came back to
this city.
The brother-in-law who had arrived in
the meantime, with an imposing paper
from Court, was anxious to have the old
man go back to Illinois at once. But Hut
ton was as determined that he should see
his daughter as the old man was anxious,
and for r,tse he telegraphed to the family
at Morris asking Mrs. Thomass address.
The despatch bore the signature of Chief
of Police Murphy, and in two hours an an
swer containing an address in Brooklyn wa
received. Hutton started with the old man
for the place designated. The brother-in-
law insisted on going along, ard it was
quite affecting to see the way the old man
chung to Hutton's coat tails, while the
feared relation was along.
The address given in the despatch was
that of boarding house. The old mans
eyes filled with tears of JOY when he
learned that Mrs. Thomas lived there. She
was at work, however, at the time in But
tericks Pattern factory in the Eastern dis
trict, and for that establishment the now
light hearted old man started-the detec-
tive and the hated brother-in-law with
him. When the trio entered the factory
the Superintendent was informed that the
old man was looking for the daughter he
had not seen in 26 years. She was called
into the room without being let into the
secret.
The old man knew her the moment he
saw her. ALI the spring of youth returned
to his limbs as he leaped to her side and
embraced her.
"Why, what do you mean Sir {" ex-
claimed the indignant woman. g. man
of your age should know better"
Then turning to the superintendent she
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| be insulted.
"Why no daughter " the old nah. urged
tenderly still embracing her, "Dont You
know your old father?
Are you my father? whom I haven't
seen in so many years.
She drew back, surveyed him. and there
was another embrace
"Are you poor, daughter" asked the
old man, lifting her face to his.
"Tm working for my living"
sWell. I'm rich and want YOU to &C