The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-04-19
SEEKING A LOST ONE.
Seattle Mans Quest After a
Beautiful Girl.
NOT SEEN SINCE CHILDHOOD.
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Guavdaanss Fate.

The key 70 the Denver mystery OF the
birth Of Emily j. Freeman. who Is not
Emily J. Freeman, bat probably Clara j.
johnson, and the part Mary Guinea plays
in the story i. undoubtedly held by John
A. Johnson. of this city. Mr.. Johnson
admits that. If the players in the story
the Denver police are nov trying 20 IN
ravei are not those Of whom he has
knowledge, ne cannot account for the
peculiar condolences. n the whole story
vas known il would rival fiction and
cause q stir in more than one weil-to-do
family in the city or vicinity Of Montreal.
When Mr.. Johnson wrote 10 the chief Of
police of Denver 10 ascertain the where
abouts Of . certain Mrs. c. g. Rollins, he
was trying to find out whore was the
young girl called IN the press reports Em-
lily Freeman or Clara J. johnson, but he
was very DESTROYS that the matter should
be OF strictly private nature. He main
tains that for fear that Mary Guinea aud
the girl may not be the people he thinks
they are. and because Of innocent people
who would be drawn into the affair he
does not want to tell what he knows. He
10 under the impression now that the girl
Clara Johnson, although he will neither
affirm or deny that that 10 the correct
name, Il in Los Angeles and be will prob
ably 20 there soon in search OF her. As .
matter of fact the girls mother - .
wealthy woman. who lives near Montreal,
but who has no idea of the whereabouts of
her child, - it was taken from her in early
infancy.
The story a. gathered from Johnson In .
long interview with . Posr-ISrEILIaEScER
reporter tonight at his room in tho Abbott
house il a. follows: In about the year
1881 q woman aged about Is or 10 years
gave birth to female child in Montreal.
For certain reasons that are not positively
known. save to Mr.. Johnson aud one or
two others, the child was taken away and
put IN . place supposed to be = founding
asylum. From that time the little one
has been lost to the mother. John A.
Johnson admits that he knew the mother
well. although he denies positively pater-
nal interest in the child, and that he
placed the little one when about years
old in charge Of q woman who appears
now in connection With this story as
Mary Guinea. At that time Mary
Cunes was q ins-looking woman Of
dark complexion and showing traces Of
French parenrage. She was . woman Of
fine family, well educated and had plenty
of money. After taking charge of the
child she left Montreal and drifted from
place to place, finally bringing up at Dem
yer about three years after. johnson says
he met her there, but not under the name
Of Guinea, and, observing that she was not
a proper person to have charge Of the edo
ucation of the little one, persuaded her to
relinquish IL into the charge Of Mrs. C. G.
Rollins or Rawlings. wealthy woman.
The latter was under the impression that
Mary Guinea was Johnson's wife. but she
was mistaken. says Johnson. and further
more Mary Guinea had no knowledge a. to
the parentsge Of the child. After this
Mary Guinea continued her life of pleasure
and went to Minneapolis, San Francisco,
Spokane and finally back to Denver. In
all these places she went under assumed
names, but Johnson refuses to give any Of
the aliases. Years flew past and the
mother of the child was married, gave birth
to boy, who IL now 6 or years old, and
not long ago lost her husband through
death. Mary Guinea, or the woman who
first had charge of the child, kept going
down, finally became an arsenic tiend
and two months ago died, unattended
save by one Of her class. It is
supposed she died IN Denver, but no city
Is named in the account Mr.. Johnson re-
ceived. and, what is still more peculiar,
the article. nearly . column long. never
mentions the name Of the woman who
died, but concludes by saying that she
was known by one name. yet had another.
There 10 long story of how she was Q
daughter of Toronto clergyman and had
all the advantages of life, but FELL john
son says the woman he knew and the one
who had charge of the child told the same
stories, but they were the creations Of her
fancy, although she was of a wealthy
family in lower Canada, and died pos
sessed of property, notwithstanding re-
ports to the contrary.
In the meantime the child now In charge
OF Mrs. Rollins had grown from sickly
little one. with thin face, blue eyes and
brown hair. to be quite ayoung lady, who
played the piano aud gave signs of good
birth. Mrs. Rollins, who was in the dark
as to the history Of her ward. evidently
became anxious for information and wrote
to John A. Johnson last August, telling
him how she was getting along and Incl
dentaliy asking for information about her.
In closing she said she intended putting
the girl in the academy. but no name was
given. Johnson thinks tina, his reply
must have alarmed Mrs. Rollins and
caused her to think that he intended tax.
ing the girl from her and returning her
20 the mother. for since last fall he has
been unable to get trace OF Mrs. Rollins.
lie wrote 20 the chief of police at
Denver for the address of Mrs. Rollins, or
perhaps Mary Guinea. and in that way the
matter got into the papers. From one
dispatch Mr.. johnson concludes that the
child is now in Los Angeles. and he I'M
tends to go there in search Of her. He
says that be thinks there Is some mistake
Ia giving the girls first protector the name
of Holy Terror" and mentioning her a.
given TO drink. Johnson admits that Is
would take long time to tell the whole
story, bat refuses 10 disclose whether the
discovery OF The girl will affect the dis