The San Francisco call., 1898-04-16

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 After weary weeks of suspense, of unfruitful clews and false alarms came news that gladdened the hearts of the young husband and the members of his family. The wife had been found. She had been found. but not as had been supposed. in some place of involuntary detention in one of the great cities of the East, but in a lonely farm house that forms minute dot on the limit less expanse of the prairies of North Dakota, far from the haunts of civ ilization.
 Three days after this intelligence was flashed over the wires to the home in Boston husband and wife were clasped in each others arms in the dingy living room of the weather-beaten farmhouse. the detectives standing guard to see that no unfriendly hand or voice marred the momentary hap piness of the reunion The explana- tions that followed will be told fur ther along in the words of MT. Hollan- der himself.
 happy home coming followed this Joyous meeting on the bleak reaches of the Dakota prairie Then came brief
 
 was marred only by the thought that the young wife might in some way be made to suffer again by the people who were held to be responsible for what had gone before
 Three months passed and the young wife was again made happy by the hope of approaching maternity. Again were these hopes dashed to the ground by the same agency that had before robbed her of her desire to be- come a mother. Again was her life despaired of and again did the skill of the physicians triumph. long period of convalescence followed, and MT. Hollander, made happy by the thought that his wife had been restored to him, and that death had for a second time been robbed of a victim, resumed his business occupations.
 On the second day of last month MT. Hollander was called away from home for forty-eight hours on business trip. When he returned he found his wife gone and his home deserted AS before, no trace of her whereabouts had been left behind, no note of explan- ation and no message to relieve the agonizing uncertainty as to what fate had overtaken the missing woman.
 Acting upon the knowledge gained by former experience MT. Hollander called in the services of detectives and set about a systematic search that was destined to meet with success. Alter several weeks a clew was found and the missing wife was trailed across the continent to California The detectives found Mrs. Hollander at a ranch house owned by a family named Wye in the foothills of Glenn County, fourteen miles from the little town of Willows. The telegraph conveyed this informa- tion to the anxious husband, who at once started for the Pacific Coast as fast as steam could carry him. He was accompanied by his attorney, Walter s. Sherman. They went direct to Will lows, where they hired a team and drove to the ranch house. There dis appointment awaited them. It appears that notice of their coming had been telegraphed from Boston by spies who had been detailed to watch the move ments of the husband. This warning had been given in time to enable those who were seeking to keep Mrs. Hol- lander from her husband to take her from the farm house to another hiding place.
 Disappointed and almost disheart- ened, MT. Hollander and his attorney came on to this city and took up their residence at the Palace Hotel. They reached Willows April and found that Mrs. Hollander had been taken away from the ranch on April 5. They reached this city April S. Arriving here there was nothing left for them to do but to await the time when the new hiding-place of she unhappy wife should be discovered. This was &C., complished last Thursday afternoon. Precautions necessary to prevent re- currence of the defeat and disappoint- ment that was met with upon the ar rival of the rescuing party at Willows caused a delay of 36 hours before MT. Hollander was notified that the time had arrived when he could greet the wife who had been so cruelty separated from him for a period of almost two months. Not until this meeting takes place to-day will they feel themselves free for time at least from the dan- gers that seem to surround them.
 HIS IS the second attempt that mas been made to take my wife from me by force and violence" said Mir. Holland CT yesterday, land if there Is any law or justice in the land 1t shall be the last. Both attempts were so nearly successful that I shudder to think of the fate that would probably have overtaken the dear little woman had 1t not been my good fortune to find and rescue her.
 Even to me, who have undergone tortures of body and mind sufficiently terrible to make me alive to the real ity of what has happened, the whole thing seems like horrible dream or the fancy of a diseased mind. It does not seem possible that in this enlight- ened age there are people who would not hesitate to do what has been done to me and mine for the purpose of ac- quiring possession of few paltry dol- lars.
 Think of It. A woman twice stolen and taken thousands of miles away and placed in an obscure hiding place; twice subjected to physical treatment that all but ended in death and result l ed in the sacrifice of two innocent lives