The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-07-04


He was With a. mercantile. house and
apparently doing we'll I called on him
and found that he was a refined and
4 Intelligent man. I said nothing to
him about hearing from the wife, but
spoke of his friends in Rochester who,
| said, would like him to write to them.
THE FOUND, LOST AGAIN.
He seemed pleased and said he
! would do So In the meantime I COM
municated with his wife, giving her his
taddress. She wrote and got no reply.
/ found out afterwards that immediate
lily on receipt of the letter he had
thrown up his employment and again
! disappeared.
Fathers frequently seek scapegrace
sons. A gentleman wrote to me from
4 Essex, England, about his son. When
/ last heard from he was in the Central
! prison, Toronto. I wrote to the war
den, who answered. saying that the
young man had been liberated in
March 1890 His offense was larceny.
He adds, He is a confirmed thief d
bad youth, thoroughly depraved. and if
living will doubtless be found in some
of, the prisons in the United States. 4
{, inclose you his photo This was very
difficult case, but [ found the fellow
/ He called himself Neil Robinson. He
appeared at religious meeting in
Blocker street, the Florence mission,
and stated publicly that he intended to
reform, and gave up his revolver. He
obtained board, lodging and financial
assistance, hut before a week had
elapsed he asked one of his old pals
Eto help him commit burglary. The
man refused and Robinson disappeared.
Of course there was nothing more TO do
in this case. Sometimes | receive in
quiries about people which on invest-
cation show that something suspicious
~ like a crime may have been commit
ted to get the party sought for out OF
the way. An old woman wrote to me
from Hull England, that her husband
left England in 1854 with f700. He was
going to his brother, who lived in
Texas. The wife was to join him later.
Soon after she received word from the
brother that her husband had died
three days after his arrival at his
/ brothers house, and asked what dis
position was to be made of his effects.
The wife in great grief wrote to the
brother to Keep the elothers, pay the
funeral expenses, and send the rest OF
the money to her. She received but Ego,
the brother urging her to invest in land
with the balance of the money. She
declined to do so, since which time she
has not heard a word. She learned that
she was advertised for few years ago,
though this may be mistake.
PERHAPS A CASE OF FOUL PLAY.
The poor creature is very old and
feeble, is behind with her rent, ana
receives parish relief l have got some
clew to the brothers former where
abouts. and when | have finished my
INQUIRIES L should not be surprised to
find that there was something like foul
play in making away with the husband.
The brother may be dead, but L may
find his children, and get to know how
they obtained their property and obtain
relief for the poor old widow.
l--H.One of the cases / am now working
on Is The INQUIRY Of a wife for q miss
sag husband she writes from Galway.
x hen she last heard from hinl he hao
heen in the United States navy. hu1 haq
deserted The portrait inciosed Is tha1
ior a handsome. refined man. His peo-
iple are well-to-do. His daughter is now
grown up, and if he is found and re
turns to his family he will be heartily
welcomed. | am now in communication
with the navy department, and am also
following up others clews in New YORK
II is eight years since the family have
had any tidingS of him. A case IN
which | have been successful is re-
markable from the fact of its going
back eighty years. A lady wrote TO
me from De We're Gardens, henslngton
London. She said: I know old Mrs
woman. whose father emigrated to
America about eighty years ago, leav-
ing Mrs. Baskerville and infant in care
! of her grandparents. He remarked in
Illinois. and had eight children. -Four
of Mrs. Baskerville'S sons within the
last thirty years have left Plymouth
for the states. and have never written
( To her since, and she fears some diSaS-
ter may have happened On investiga-
ton ] succeeded in tracing members Of
both families those of the father ana
the Baskerville brothers. 1 found that
the latter had been in Cleveland, o.,
and had afterwards gone to Australia.
The lady, my original correspondent
wrote to me last month. Her letter
runs thus: L have to acknowledge the
receipt of your letter dated April =,
1894. The poor mother is nearly beside
herself with joy 1 trust the Australian
| quest will be successful. [ think that
! the Baskervilles had better be directed
| TO write to Miss Baskerville, my house
keeper One of these brothers has
been twenty-six years in the same sit
luation here There is still another
lease that may be interesting. I traced
recently. a lost niece to St Adams, VT.
| Nothing had been heard of her for
itwenty-two years Her family had
written to me from the Broken Hill
mines. Australia, to look for her"
Mr.. Drenon intends to publish a
paper to be called THE International
Recorder" 1t will he issued monthly,
and be devoted entirely to the interests
| of those persons who have lost rela-
tives or friends in any part of the
world and who are DESTROYS of having
them traced.-Exchange