Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1885-05-25

said TO contain S2000in money and rnuch
JeWelry ana valuables. When tho ref.
ugees were all discharged Mrs, s.
naae quite fuss about her loss, and
papers were sent to Dectectiye PrIce
trunk, "nu 'ne
The detective called upon her at ber
lodgings and found TO his astonish.
inent That 1t was the same Mrs, Rut.
l.uge who had few years previously
inquired 30 conspicuously In the civ.
All OF this hereported TO headauarters
ana received direct orders to find trunk
and the parties who took 1t, which he
ala before long, locating the guilt in
the persons Of Capt. Barry Lynch.
officer in charge of Fort pike. and -
lieutenant. They had taken trunk to
q poarulng house on Barrone street
Kept by Mrs. Boyd, where they
broke open and took therefrom the
money and valuables, after which
.ne trunk was shipped to
tneir home in Maine. 1t was
overtaken and brought back to Mrs.
s. alias Mrs R. The officers
who did the robbing were arrested and
locked up, but soon broke out and es-
capped TO the Confederacy. Mr. 8. s.
got. pass to Matamoras, Mexico,
which was the last heard OF
her until the government
detectives were hunting for
Pete Mccartney in the Nation some-
time since. She was heard from there
and was next heard OF four years ago
in Sherman, this state, having a girl
with her whom she claimed as her
daughter. She is said to have tried to
make the girl lead life of shame there
but the girl ran away and went to live
with the family of the ex-postmaster
In the country, who provided good
home for her. Mrs. Il. found where
she was and had the gentleman ar
rested for kidnapping her child,
and the child was returned
to her as her mother. The girl then
shortly had the old woman arrested
for attempted murder, but the old
woman out-generaled her and was ac-
quilted, as she proved she was only
chastising her daughter. This woman
Is said while there to have made bus
iness of visiting private residences I'M
der the guise OF selling embroidery or
laces and to In this way purloin door
keys and furnish these with plans of
the rooms, etc, to gang of thieves.
The girl finally becoming acquainted
with her mothers character left and
went to Denison, where she married
and shortly afterward removed to this
city with her husband, where they
have been living very quietly and
comfortably for many months.
On Thursday, the l4th inst, the
mother came to the city from, as she
claimed, Mobeetie In the "Panhan-
de-" and upon her arrival here sent
at once for Detective Price, saying that
she had come all the way from Mo-
beetle to see him. The gentleman who
brought the message told Mr.. Price
that the lady knew him well, and that
be must know her.
Mr.. Price called upon her at the ho-
tel and to his surprise found no lady of
the name sent him had registered
Mrs. Burnett, but upon calling the
landlords attention TO the matter was
informed that lady who had just ar
rived on the Fort Worth d Denver
railway was in the house
and he believed that she
was from Mobeetle. He was then
ushered up stairs into her presence.
She insisted that this could not be De.
tective Price, and knew it was not
Capt. Price-anyhow, not the man
she wanted 10 see. Insisted there
must be some other one here, but to
this the captain demurred, and finally
she said she had travelled all
the way from the Panhandle
to see him and had written him six
letters before starting, to which she
received no reply. She still insisted,
however, that IL could not be the Capt.
Price whom she knew, as he was not so
old and gray.
She finally proceeded to business,
said that she was the wife of that
great cattle king of the Panhandle
country, and that her friend, Mrs.
Alice Rutlidge, up there, had lost her
daughter and she was here to dis
cover her whereabouts, etc. That
she and her mother had
fallen heirs to immense property left
by her mothers brother, Geo. Metzler
OF the Police Gazette in New York
city, and there were no other heirs;
that she had volunteered to come
down to this city and hunt her
up, as che heard she was
here. II alive, she wanted
her produced, and If dead must be
shown the grave, and have certifl
Gates, etc, from coroner, sexton, etc,
No time, trouble or expense must
be spared to get her. For the service
she would pay $1,000, che said, and
produced an enormous roll OF
large bills. A contract was
finally entered into, and the detectives
set about finding the lost child, and
after securing the city for the past
eight days the woman was discovered
and the Mrs B. notified. She said
when in formed OF the fact; "The news
was too good, at could not be the
one,p impossible A meeting was
finally arranged to take place at the
offices, and the mother
agreed to be there sure.
At the appointed hour the lady, &C.
by her husband, repaired
to the place designated
for the meeting, but the mother flor
such she was) failed TO msteriAlize.
Mrs b. was again visited at the ho-
tel, and by subsequent arrangement
the daughter went TO her room to zee
her. She still insisted Ii could not be,