The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1897-04-14
BLUE EYED BABYS DUPE
SACRAMENTO REAL ESTATE MAN
Is BLACKMAILED.
Attorney L. NJ. Morgan, Who Profited
by the Deception, Said to BE Hiding
in Honolulu.

Attorney f. NJ. Morgan, an erstwhile
resident of San Francisco, is believed
to have arrived in this city on the last
Australia as a fugitive from justice,
and is in hiding here. lie is wanted
by the police in San Francisco for
Matchmaking Edwin X. Alsip, well
known real estate man of Sacramento,
out of several thousand dollars. The
plan by which Morgan obtained funds
from Alsip was bold, but so cunningly
executed that the real estate man
played the dupe for months before he
discovered that he was being bled
without cause. Now he is anxious to
bring Morgan to justice, and is strain
ing every nerve to do so.
The game to which Alsip so readily
fell a victim was the oldest known in
the annals of Matchmaking. 1t con-
cerned pretty stenographer, a Miss
Howell, with whom Alsip is now con
strained to confess he did have init
mate relations; blue-eyed and tlaNen-
haired scandinavian baby, born at the
City and County Hospital San Fran
cisco to poor servant girl by the
name of Lindstrom; an obdurate at
torney. in the person of Morgan, the
conspirator, and several lesser con-
spirators. most of whom lent hand
unconsciously to the fraud. In short,
Alsip was led to believe that the blue
eyed baby belonged to Miss Howell,
and that he was the father, and he
was induced to give up large sum of
money for damages, and to pay a
handsome allowance each month for
the support of the child.
For several months the deception
was practiced on Alsip, and when he
discovered it, by mere chance, Nor
gan was gone. The story got into
print, and Alsip was obliged to eX-
plain. Since then lie has learned that
Miss Howell is happily married, and
living in the East; that the Scandina-
Wan mother of the child he thought
was his, has gone home to the old
country, and that the blue-eyed baby
has fallen into a good home and the
love of a worthy mother who intends
to rear it as her own.
The Chronicle of April 1st says:
'Morgans whereabouts remains as
much a mystery as ever, but wherever
he happens to be his creditors are
united in the belief that he will never
come back to San Francisco. Mrs.
Margaret Morgan, his divorced wife, is
firmly of the opinion that the one-time
husband has gone to Honolulu, and
that from there he may probably go
by schooner or trading vessel to one
of the South sea islands. She says
that he is well known in Hawaii and
has some influential friends there, who
would help him into any kind of bus
mess he cared to engage in. Talking
about his disappearance to friend,
Mrs. Morgan said: "Some of the
in communication with him. This is
absolute nonsense. | neither know
nor care where he is. | only know
that the further away he gets the less
chance he will have to further dis
grace the honest names of my child
rem and myself. Morgan has always
been passionately attached to my
youngest girl, and l firmly believed
that when he decamped he would at
tempt to take her with him. So, as
soon as | knew of his intention to
leave the country, which was four or
five days before he went, hired peo-
pie to watch the girl, and they never
let her out of their sight till after the
| Australian steamer left. | am posi-
tive that he sailed on that steamer,
and that his brother VIII is hiding
somewhere in this part of the State
right now, waiting for the next Aus
tralian boat"