The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-04-23
She is NOT MRS. FORSYTH.
The Young Woman Found at
San Jose Was Mrs. M. H.
Moore.
SHE IS NOW IN THIS CITY.
That His Wife Was
Drowned.

Mrs. G. W. Forsyth, the young woman
who mysteriously disappeared recently,
has not been found either in San Jose or
Watsonville, as variously reported. She is
still missing, and her husband still sticks
to his belief that she is held down by rocks
or some other obstruction beneath the
ocean waves.
The woman who was taken for Mrs. For
syth in jacksonville and in the Garden
City proved to be quite different person
Mrs. M. II. Moore, who lives at 1181l
Ellis street, in this city. Mrs. Moore went
down to Santa Cruz County on some pri-
vate business and suddenly became the
victim of most extraordinary circum-
stances. kilograms flashed all around
her, all the country folk heard
of her - as Mrs. Forsyth, of course
and everywhere she went she was
an object of curiosity. Sheriffs and
constables were at her heels with all kinds
of scrutinlzlng glances, and after such an
experience she was glad to be home again
last evening.
81 was angry at first, but it made me
mad" said she, ''the way / was annoyed.
horse at the barn the hotel proprietor
came to me with a serious face.
They want you,' he said, shaking his
head.
Then he told me that was Mrs. For
syth and had run away from my husband.
said my name was not Forsyth, but
Moore, and told him there must be a mis-
take. But the whole town was out to see
me-men, women and children. There
sonville. 1t read, Arrest her re-
CARELESS of expense 1 registered
my right name at the hotels, but the
sheriff, or constable, or whoever he was,
would insist thatI was Mrs. Forsyth. The
story was started that was looking for my
runaway husband and he asked me about
it. | told them my husband died in st.
but he was not satisfied. One time l was
Mrs. Forsyth, running away from her
husband, and the next thing was search
ing for my contract husband. | came back
to the city and the first thing did was to
call on Mr.. Forsyth.
HE told me he did not send the tele-
gram to arrest me at jacksonville and
knew nothing of what had taken place to
annoy me so much"
age, while Mrs. Moore says she is %.
There is a slight resem blance in their
faces, though the full face of Mrs. Forsyth,
which did not happen to be photographed
for the country officers, bears no resem-
blance to that of Mrs. Moore.
G. W. Forsyth, the disconsolate hus-
band, was only too glad last night to be
able to state that it was not his wife who
had been found in the country, for he still
places absolute faith in her loyalty to him,
and it was a great relief to know that she
had not run away.
81 am convinced that my wife is
drowned and is caught somewhere by the
rocks or spikes of some lumber in the wa
ter. l travelled all along the main shore
looking for her body, and searched the
Golden Gate and ocean beach The light
house-keeper told me she could not wash
out to sea, and might be found on the
Berkeley shore.
"She was not member of Emmanuel
Church, and dom think she was ever there.
She attended the First Baptist church on
Eddy street probably dozen times, but
was not member of the congregation.
My wife was a Methodist and used to go
to Mr.. Filben's church on California street.
l don't expect to ever see her alive. I'm
sure she Is dead