The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-04-09
LONG SEARCH FOR
A LOST SISTER.
BROTHER TRAVELS NEARLY THE
WORLD OVER.
Mrs. Frances Cook, Who Loved
Sarah, kidnapped the Child TWEEN
ty Years Aso-she is An Heiress
Now.

Alexander Wyman has Travelled
nearly all over the world in search of
his sister Sarah, who was kidnapped
twenty years ago. With the wish of a
dying mother ever in his heart he held
firmly to his quest. Now after a brief
lapse of time he is about to take up
the quest again, says the New York
Herald.
Sarah Wyman is an heiress, and the
fortune in which she Should share can
not be divided until it is settled wheth-
er she is alive or dead.
Once since she was taken from No.
81 East Houston street has her broth
children then and the boy himself
probably escaped being spirited away.
1t is a strange story of a woman's
attachment for a child, not of her own
blood, and a flight the end of which
not even the finest detective skill has
been able to discover.
Mrs. Wyman was a widow in COM
Portable circumstances, and, with her
two children, occupied the entire house.
1t was quite agreeable when Mrs. Mary
Frances Cook came to live with her
Mrs Cook was a highly educated
southern woman, whose charm of man
ner made her a desirable companion
She was the wife of a sea captain, who
also owned several vessels and spent
the greater part of his time on the wa
ter.
Spirited Her Away.
She engaged in the millinery business
| in Sixth avenue, between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets. She was child
less and became warmly attached to
little Sarah. Upon the child she be-
slowed many presents. 81 love her as
/ though she were my own flesh and
blood" once said Mrs. Cook. My
whole life is wrapped up in the little
darling"
Then the wife of the sea captain de-
cided to leave the city and asked per-
mission to take Sarah along with her.
Mrs. Wyman, who lay on sick bed,
of course, objected. mo, indeed said
she Il couldn't think of it. If L were
to lose Sarah 1 think 1 should die
Mrs. Cook pleaded, argued and wept
but to no avail. Then she mentioned
the matter no more, apparently becom-
ing reconciled to the mothers refusal
She had all of her effects removed, eX-
cept a trunk, which she declared she
would let remain until she went away
She invited Sarah to take walk
with her few afternoons later an6
the child did so. When at night they
did not return, Mrs. Wyman, almost
assistance of the police. They discov
cred no trace of the girl. A few day:
later an eXpreSsman called for Mrs
Cooks trunk Mrs. Wyman refused tt
deliver it and the man called a, police
man. who ordered Mrs. Wyman to re
lease the trunk. 1t might have leC
to the discovery of Mrs. Cook but this
lc,Ny ffxy
Nothing was heard of Sarah for {
month and then young Alexander wy
man remembered Mrs. Cook while h,
: was returning from school. She asked
him if he wanted to see his sister ant
boarding a car took him to some insti
tuition in the neighborhood of EIizahetl
: street, where he was permitted to Sc
: Sarah for five minutes.
PoverIess to Give Aid.
She cried bitterly and pleaded to b
: allowed to go home to see "her mann
ma" but being only years Alexande
= was powerless to help her.
/ Mrs. Cook tried to induce him to ge
= in a cab. He believed she wanted +
= kidnap him too, and he ran away fror
t her.
4 It was discovered later that Mrs
f Cook had sold out her millinery stor
f and gone to St. Louis. Search ther
= tailed TO disclose ner whereabouts.
Mrs. Wyman died of broken hear
e several years later, after spendin
r much of her fortune in employing d.
S tectives. Dying, she commissioned he
o son to find Sarah. His long search hia
r thus far been in vain. Several yeal
ago he heard a report she had keen t.
ken south, where she subsequent
married a rich sugar planter.
Sarah is well connected, and on he
~ mothers SIDE she is distantly relate
to Michael Refs. of San Francisco, WI
left "a fortune of $9O.0O0,O0O when /
/ ldied several years ago. She is also r
;. lated to a wealthy wine producer
> Frankfort, Germany, named Goldsmit
: An uncle died four years ago leavir
J. an estate valued at $4,000, which, a
l. cording to the will, cannot be divide
: until all the members of the family ca
be accounted for.
Alexander Wyman, who lives at N
1912 Third avenue with his wife,
!. - about to renew his search once NOR