The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1889-03-08
REAPED HIS REWARD.
A Young Yankee Newspaper Reporters
Clever Piece Of Detective Work.
New Haven (COnn,) Special.

A Young Yankee Newspaper Reporters
Clever Piece of Detective Work.
New Haven Conn., Special.
There was q quiet wedding In the little
village of Terryville, Litchfield county,
this afternoon that ends q pleasing love
story and begins q new chapter in the
romantic life of a Connecticut girl. Miss
Jennie Hart, the adopted daughter of q
wealthy manufacturer of KensingtOn, was
the bride. and the man she married is
Thomas +. Nunenan, a reporter for the New
Haven Morning News.
Nunenan did not get his wife until he had
put in some good work in the detectiveli line
in search of the young lady's parents. She
Fsfssed t t9 marry ar yea him , Until T She d knew c1 the
with which the ardent lover began the
search was the knowledge that the girl had
been adopted from some Boston orphan
asylum and she had heard that her real
name was Hayden.
Nunean hunted for a long time the
records of the many institutions in Boston
without any success. Finally, at the Little
Wanderers Home. on Baldwin place, the
reporter learned hat the girl whose history
six years old, at the request of her grand
parents. Her father had died within o
few years after she was born, and the
widow was supported by the town..
The mother of the child would be only
thirty-eight years old if she were alive,
but the superintendent reasoned that she
must have been i'll then, as the town of
South Coventry, Conn.,. was Obligedt to sup
port her, and as they had never heard from
her, not even a letter of inquiry having
been received, she was undoubtedly dead.
Mr.. Hart had taken the girl Immediately
after she was received from South Coventry
in 1876.
For weeks the young man hunted for
some trace of his loved ones mother, but
the fates seemed to be against him. He re-
turned to his work at the office of the News,
and after awhile again started out.
This time he was successful. He found
the mother living in Rockville, married q
second time, and with several children by
her second husband.
The sequel was as interesting as the orig
inal search. The little girl had been torn
from her mother, fourteen years ago, by a
the expense of caring for the little one,
gave her to the Little Wanderers Home.
He refused to tell the mother where her
child was, and died without revealing the
secret. Soon after that she married Mr..
Eldridge. Some time ago she saw q young
lady in Putnam who resembled the lost one,
and endeavored to find some trace of her
| daughter there.
She had a little photograph of the girl,
| taken q short time before she went away,
and in tears she showed it to Nunenan. He
had a later photo in his pocket, with the
exact features of the smaller one. but he
kept it there. The time for disclosure had
i uOb coIuc.
He suggested that, twelve years having
passed, it would be impossible to recognize
the little girl in the person of the Young
lady, and besides. she had in all probability
| been gwen another name. But the mother
believed that she would recognize her at
sight. and gave proof that she could identi-
fly her.
Nunenan's next interview was in execu-
| tive session, and the public were not adj
mitted. Two days later Miss Hart and her
| guardian, Mr.. Woodruff. went to Rockville.
Mrs. Eldridge was busy sewing in the mill
where she was employed. when her atten-
ton was attracted to a young lady who
was being shown about the room. II won
der who that young beauty isl" Mrs. Ell
bridge said to a companion.
The Young lady passed through with the
attendant. and was for the time forgotten.
A few minutes later Mrs. Eldridge was
called to the office and greeted with the af-
fectionate name of "Mother.n Soon the
ter whom they knew. but had never seen,
istelce she had newly learned.
To-day Miss Hart, Of Hayden, rewarded
the tireless wooer at the altar.