The morning call., 1893-12-20
HER HUSBAND STILL ALIVE.
An Old Friend Visits Her at the
Hospital.
AN AFFECTING INTERVIEW.
She Deserted Her Husband and Child
and Has Led Checkered Career
Ever Since.

The mystery concerning the past life of
Caroline Foster. who was fatally shot by
Jan Rudinski last Saturday night, is being
gradually cleared up.
Yesterday James Luning. q gray-hared
gentleman. who is a prominent business
man In Victoria, B. c., called at the Re-
ceiving Hospital to see the dying woman.
He said he saw her name in the papers.
and he wished to see if she was young
woman he had known from infancy.
4 message was sent to her and she sent
back word that she would like TO see him.
He went to her cot when she rang the bell
at the head of her bed for the matron.
When the matTon answered the bell she
told her she had decided not to talk to Mr..
Luuing. but he begged her to speak to him
and she finally consented.
They were together for nearly an hour
and when he came away his eyes were
filed with tears and be was deeply affected.
~ have known her." he said, "siDce she
was little child She was born in
small town in British Columbia, her
father, whose name was Hurdt, being an
Englishman of good family and her mother
q German-Amerlcan.
when she was little girl she lost both
her father and mother, and she was
adopted by Mr. and Mrs. HurreIl. who
have a son In Vancouver, B. c., an i'm
porter of Japanese goods.
"She was brought up bv the Hurrels as
one of the family and received an excellent
education.
when she attained a marriageabIe age
she was married 10 young man named
Foster. a child was born to them and
they seemed to live happily together.
About two years ago, when her baby was
six months old, she disappeared, and IL
was afterward found that she had gone
away with fast young man who had got
acquainted with her few months previ-
YiOusly.
None of her friends knew where she
had gone to and her husband mourned
for her as lost to him forever"
''It is reported that she had a fortune
of $4,000 when she was married. Is
that ?"
NO." replied Mr.. Luning. "she did not
have a cent. She has brothers and sisters
III good circumstances in British COlum bia
and suppose that was the reason she did
not wish her real name known. am glad
[ have seen her, as | think my visit did her
good"
Mr. Luning was not mistaken. as when
the matron went back to her after Mr.
Luning went away there was bright look
in her face and she said, Well, am glad
have seen him."
Mrs. Foster was seen last night III her
sented to talk for few minutes.
She did not deny that her maiden name
was Hurdt. and that she was brought up
with the family OF Mr.. and Mrs. HurrelI
which bears out the story she told
Rudinsk. and which was published in
yesterdays CALL.
But the story of her married life differs
from that told by Mr.. LuniDg.
Il had fortune of S25,000." she said,
"when we were married. My husband
bought ranch with part of it, and soon
squandered the remainder, and left me
penniiess, taking our child with him.
She positively refused to say ANYTHING
about Der life after she parted from her
husband and child. but from other sources
it was learned that she and the man with
whom she eloped went TO Arizona, whore
she got into a shooting scrape and was
wounded in both knees. This is partly
confirmed by scars, although she declares
the scars were caused by assesses and not
by bullet wounds.
The man she eloped with proved to be-
an expert cOunt terfeiter, and be had to flee
from Arizona as the Federal authorities
were after him.
She was left again practically among
strangers, but man aged to make her Way
out of the Territory and came to this CITY.
where she met Rudinski shortly after her
arrival, and the rest is told in her ante
m0rtem statement published yesterday.
Her reverence ana love for the baby's
clothes IN the small box which is placed
beside her cot can now be accounted for
She is still slowly sinking. but she talks
calmly ard dlspasSiOnately of the end.
The doctors at the Receiving Hospital saw
she Is one OF the pLuckiest women thew
nave ever treated and endures pain with
extraordinary fOrtitude