The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1897-10-27
A MIS- SION OF LOVE.

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M!SSloNO7 LOVE.
Caro!Ins Thorsen Travels the World OvsE
IN Guest of Hs7 Sweetheart.
Fer four years Caroline ThoIssn h&S
travelled Amarica cveS searching foG
| her sweetheart, f ic Johnson. Thurs.
| day see reached Atlanta, just Ave
weeks behind tie man she loves So
msdl7. The story she told 10 Station
Sergeant Br&selton this morniGg ct
o .ce Headquarters is indeed 3 sad one.
Jus! after the sergeant came On duty
women, tall and handsome, entered
the office. Eer skin was fair, her hair
light aud ber figure as parfect ss an
srtist's model. She was dressed IN
fashionable attire aud vas woman
/ who would attract attention wherever
seer. Magnificent diamonds shone
upon her fingers and her appearance
was that of a person CT high birth.
When see spoke it was plain to see
that SIZE was a foreigner and aSwede.
She told her story as plainly as posi-,
bic, while tesr occasionally !ell
from her pretty blue eyes.
-Four years ago Eric Johnson, a
youUg Swede, had proposed and been
accepted by Caroline Thorsen, and the
! marriage ceremony was soon to be
soiemniZed. He was man Of wealth,
and sle, too had fortune ir her own
right. Thrse weeks before the mar
risee waste have taken place Johnson
was forced By the death Of his father
| to visit London, where he had large
business interests. Thsre was sad
good bye, and the lover left his bride,
that was to b., with many assurances
of a speedy return. Ia London he
was detained beyond the expected
time and wrote to his girl Sweetheart
that as his stay there would be indeh
nitely prolonged she must come 10
him.
Caroline wrote, telling him she
would cone, aud few days later left
her home for London. When she ar
rived there she was almost pgralyze
By the information from his business
associates that he had gone to Ameri
ca. Her letter had not reached him,
and believing that she cared for an
other, he hsd, N fl Of ] ,alousy, left
London, taking with him large sum
| Of money and refusing to tell any one
Of his intentions. The nexg steamer
brought as q passenger to America
Caroline florSen. Sac found where
her sweetheart had stopped in New
York city for few days, and had
then gone to Buffalo. She followed
and there secured clue That took her
10 Pniladelphia. Again she wss toe
late, and vert to Baltimore, Richmond
AID louisville. Johnson had been II
all OF these cities, but had left before
lhe Sarrogipg women reached them.
Sac heard h9 mad gone to Indiana pC-
lis, and went immediately ID tha:
place, but he had, as a other lastanc
| es, left before she came.
She next travelled over Michigan,
ana lae1 went to Madison, Wis, only
10 learn that he had been there but
had gone. In Madison Miss Thorsen
was told that be had gone to DIS
Moines, lows, where she went only to
ascertain thai he had goue to Nebras
ka. Sne searched that state over with
| out finding any trace OF him, and then
went to Denver. From there she
went to Salt Lake, then then 10 San
Francisco, and later through Arizona
and New Mexico. The next s.ate Wis
tied was Texas, ard then, filed with
/ sorrow, she iourueyed to New Orleans.
Weary with her travels, Caroline de-
cided to rest there, and remained IN
that city until three days ago, when
she started fer Atlanta She stopped
| in several smaller towns On the way
and reached here Thursday. She had in
all these PLACES visited the police au
thorities, the hospitals and ministers
| in search Of information. Thursday
morning she went first to police head
| quarters and told Of Eer mission
There was 20 clue to work on and
Station Sergeant Braselton was about
to refer TO the chief when she suggest
! ed looking over the dockets.
The sergeant did this, bat the name
of Ecic johnson did not appear On any
of them. Finally the book known as
the sleep=r's BOOK" where the namss
| of Lersous are entered who are given
Iod eiDgs, was taken up, and there on
September 10Th, was the name-Eric
johnson. The woman gave scream
Of delight and seizirg the book kissed
the page where the Dsme was written
again and again. She sobbed AID
laughed and pressed the 5ook 10
her bosom in hystcricsl delight,
5u. suddenly the 10y g&ve way
to sorsoH.
Where is my Eric now," sha asked
Tee sergeant could not tell Aer. The
man, weary aud without meaEs-a
wsrdersr- had come and asked fer 2
nights lodging. It had bsen given
him aud the next day he had Iei1 to
begin sgain bis journey. lie had
been here. though, and the fact thai
he wss alive five weeks ago gave the
woman who loved him hope.
u will find him" she said as she
turned tearful!v from TIE ssree2nts
/ desk aad w2lszd slowly i!om ihe
| ctiice. Journal.
G-ea Loss OF Life.
Tnree additional survivors CT the
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