The morning call., 1893-03-22
A MISSING HEIR.
Where Is Adolph George
Jorgensen ?
THE DANISH CONSUL WALLS.
Two Variety Actresses Are His Sis
tiers, but His whereabouts
Is Entirely Unknown.

There are couple of thousand dollars
lying in the safe of J. Simpson. the Danish
Consul at % California street, waiting for
some one to take them away.
Mr.. Simpson wants to get rid of this
money. but the party who is really entitled
to 1t is apparently out Of reach.
George JoTgensen is his name. and up to
about six months ago he could easily be
found. but since that time he has dlsap-
peared so completely that no trace of him
is left.
II it was only known that George was
dead there would be others who would
get that money; but unless the fact of his
being no longer on this mundane sphere is
established the $1,000 and more will remain
in Mr.. Simpsons safe.
The story connected with this inheritance
for such IS the money IN question, is quite q
romantic one.
Lieutenant Niels Jorgensen, formerly of
the Danish army. arrived here many years
ago with his wife and three children.
They had no money, and Niels had to go
10 work at whatever was offered for him
10 do.
He met Scandinavian people who got him
employment as a barkeeper in one OF the
Swedish or Danish places on the lower end
OF keaIny street. and in that manner he
earned a livelihood.
On getting into that business he soon be-
came popular among his countrymen. to
whom the honor OF being served by an eX-
lieutenant was quite tattering.
Besides, Nlels was a good-lOOking fellow,
well educated, and fluent talker on most
any subject.
So behind that bar Niels Jorgensen be-
came well known to every habitua Of the
Barbary Coast, and he was for many years
favuTite among them.
Family troubles caused separation and
afterward divorce between Nlels and his
wife and the latter married afterward a
man by he name of Wilson.
But neither JOrgenSen nor his Danish
wife, survived the separation long and both
of them died within the last Two years.
The children which survived were Adolph
George Jorgensen, who is now being looked
for, and his two sisters, who have since be-
come stars in the variety line.
The girls are known as the Ward sisters
and under that name they have performed
as song and dance artists in the leading
variety halls Of the country for some time
past
They are good looking and clever and
therefore always in demand.
When seen by CALI. reporter yesterday
the Ward sisters said they had not seen
their brother George for over five years and
that they knew absolutely nothing of his
whereabouts since.
The fact of tile matter Is that Adolph
Quentin State Prison for grand larceny in
1891, but was released some six months ago,
when his time expired.
The police records show this, but there is
no cleW OF what became of George after the
expiration OF his service.
His TWO charming sisters never knew that
be had been convicted of crime and served
q term IN prison.
When they we're told of it they regretted
the fact that they had missed chance TO
hafn hafr Mt rfr 70 hrof h.a-
in trouble.
One Of the girls. who declared that she re-
sembied George in feature, said one night
some i've months ago, while she was dong
turn on the Bella Union stage, she thought
she had discovered her brothers face among
the audience.
But it could not have been him." she
said, because he surely would have TecOg-
nized US aud We would have heard from
him."
If Georpe is dead the Ward sisters are his
heirs, out whether he is in The lane of tie
living OF not seems to be a hard thing to de-
terEiue
An advertisement which has appeared
thirty times ia TIE CALL and other daily
papers, reading as follows, has net as yet re-
suited IN any cltw as TO the whereabouts of
George Jorgensen:
4. ANTED-TO IND AD0LPH GF0RG J0F-
~ geuscH. sen Il The late Lieutenant NteIs Jor-
Eensen OF the Danish army. lately resident in mis-
city Any Information respecting same viii obii1e
} SIMPSON, Danish Consul, y California ST., san
Francisco.
Some OF tie old-timers along the Barbary
Coast claim to know that JgrgeDseD the
missing heir, shipped as a sailor On some
vessel Immediately after his release from
State Prison.
A any rate, Consul SImrson would like
TO know what became Of George, because no
final distribution of the Jorgensen estate
In Denmark can be made until he is found
OF his death is positively established.