The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-02

mia last act In as dramatic story OF
i"V ,t. ne was ever penned by the ro'
rea occurred recently at Mesa City,
man chen a middle aged man and a
A. H. 'oy met IN "a bayfield, and wept In
trach Others arms ~
ea, ,to middle aged man was Dr IL. II.
IN and of st. Louis The grown boy
hui" .ao,ed I'm San Francisco as Henry
was IN They were father and son,
an enforced separation OF 10 years
wiz WIN them. For ten years or more the IA
peV"L as wandered broken hearted, search |
tho' ,a The son whose unaccountable dis |
Ing la when but years OF age drove |
a atl life and mother to an untimely grave. |
u the closing days of Gus Clark s adj
t.,rotion as marshal of Phenix, A t.,
III came 20 him a letter signed by DR..
tup,mond of St. Louis, asking for any
aeihle information or the whereabouts
vouno man named Henry Creelman.
~ ,s nrobable that the chieis OF police or
a,ty marshals at all prominent points on
.ho coast received the same inquiry at that
Inc hut only Gus Clark was able to give
onv news of the young man. such per-
CON had been in the employ OF the no
Verde Canal company for long time,
va had then been lost sight Of in Pres.
40 territory and began fresh inquiries at
Prescott 1t was only matter OF a fow
avs before young Creelman was traced
.o Mesa City, where he had secured work
on a ranch -.
o0ectinr in the extreme, particularly on
.he fathers side The boy quit the ranch
Of once and went with his father to the
Kimball House. where they passed the
nioht perbaps such night as man and
Lov never passed before-the boy III tell
ing of his hardships and wanderings, the
father in relating a most remarkable mar
rativo.
II reaches back to u placid rural scene
In an Ohio town, Ashtabula, 22 years ago.
Then and there Miss Donaldson, the only
daughter of a very respectable family was
the belle of the village Suitors to her
hand and heart she numbered by the score,
but of them all the one most favored was
a Young lawyer of great promise, EDWIN
Creelman. In few months they were to
have been wed, and the papas and mann
mas of the town called ii n fine match and
nredcted success for the lawyer and hap
nv. prosperous home for the future bride
Then there came to Ashtabula young
medical college graduate-this same d.
Hammond, the middle aged man, who
now sits under the bright stars of an Ari'
IONA summer sky and tries to make his
own son realize that he once had loving
mother and still has fond father.
During the absence OF the family physl
clan Miss Donaldson was taken seriously
IN. Ard now began the long life drama
DIR. Hammond was called to the house
The story writers would say 1t was love al
4 10
prapher to sum up the net result of thai
meeting. The match with Crceman was
broken off, and the wedding was between
the new doctor and his first patient.
The green eyed monster made n demon
the rejected sutton He upbraidcd his ials'
sweetheart in quite the fashion of III
melodrama, and swore to be avenged upoi
the couple though 1t took lifetime to nc
complish 1t.
Four years after the marriage OF Dr. l.
II. Hammond and the belle of Ashtaoul
their only child, Leo, was stolen from III
home, and from that day until the meet
ing mt Mesa City the child never knew o
saw or heard of its parents. Large sum
of money were spent in endeaVOring !
onin some clew of the child. But all TN
searching came to naught The theory
the time was that the gypsies had carrie
off the babe, and this was true, but nc
all of the story.
A year after the kidnapping the gril
stricken mother received u letter IN faihi
lar handwriting, with an Australian pos
mark 1t was from the rejected lover WI
calmly acknowledged the cowardly the
of the child and as coolly declared that
parents would never see 1t again In
his oath of vengeance was lulliileu'
Then the mother died, and the iathe
now alone and quite broken hearted uogo
his wanderings Many people Thought u
sufferinps had unseared his reason j
went TO Australia and from there to Sou
Africa, but could find no trace of Creelin'
nor of the stolen child A few years ~
he settled down in st. Louis ana resuin
his practice as physician
When the destructive cyclone passed oV
St Louis about a year ago, on the pu
lished list of the wounded was the name
Edwin Creelman DIR. Hammond saw
name, ard soon the wronged man stoou
the bedside of his Nemesis. Only the ID
that Creelman was at deaths door avert
a scene of violence and probable piooush'
The dying man confessed his crime &C
fessed that he bad paid gypsy Woi,iun
steal the child; that the child hau U.
taken to San Francisco and lodged WIZ
poor family, who had been paid 10y Ore
man for his keep. Creelman poseo 40
father and gave him the name Oh Iien
For several years remittances came rel
larly from Australia Then they ceas
and the boy was put out to gam MS
living Even Croelman, upon DIS rev
to America, could find no trace Oh III
and when the confession was ehueu
victim of the vengeance of the eie,ne
went to his long accounting ana 'he
ther renewed his long searching
That is the story briefly told ho'
Creelman, or Hammond, WORKED VI
ranch in the Sacramento valley tnen
the railroad in Southern California
then he drifted to Arizona .-Exon"neo