The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-01-12
MAY BE A CLUE TO ROBINSON.
BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER THINKS
SHE REMEMBERS HIM.

The Case to Be Looked Into Further.
some incidents of the Long Search
for the Missing Heir-Three Fred
\. Robinsons Discovered IN Va
rious Parts of the World, But None
of Them The Nan sought for.
Two or three people looked up Mr.. J.
J. Risdon at The Pulaski yesterday TO
see K they could give him any informa-
lion about Fred y. Robinson. The story
OF the search for the man as the heir 10
q fortune was told in the Morning News
Of yesterday. The Chicago lawyer has
been trying to locate Robinson for nearly
six years.
or those who called on the attorney
only one had any information that was
regarded worth following UP. This was
MRS. James Mcbride, who keeps a sailor
boarding house on Bay street. Mr. RS
don went to see her about the matter Mrs.
Mcbride has kept a boarding house here
Tor a long zine. She remembers a man
who stopped at her house az the time
Robinson is known to have been in Sa-
vannah and who answers in many parl--
ulars the descriptions given of him. she
told the lawyer that the man was hero
for nearly a year. and left on a cotton
vessel bound for some European port The
name OF this vessel she could not recall
nor was she sure that the man whom
She had in mind was Robinson. Mr.. RS
don viii look into the matter further.
Mrs Mcbride viii look over her register
during the time Robinson was here ANA
see If she can find his name. In case she
IS successful. she viii have earned
handsome reward. as the attorney is pre-
pared to pay well for any Information that
may lead TO the discovery Of the man,
living or dead. Of whom he is in quest
Mrs Mcbride described the man whom
she believes may be Robinson in such
manner as to leave little doubt in the mind
Of the lawyer as to her being on the
right track She said he was a quiet
sort Of a man, with but little to say 70
any one and an inonensive manner This
and other things tallYs with what the at
torney has been told of the man for whom
he is searching. His Information shows
that the young fellow, who was just 70
when here, was never Troublesome in any
way, except when he had been drinking
which was only occasionally. Mr. RisdOn
rather expected that some discovery
would be made through the keeper of one
OF the sailor boarding houses. He showed
Mrs. Mcbride a picture of young Robin
son, taken two years before he was here.
She declared the picture to be that of the
man whom she remembers.
If Mr. Risdon can find from Mrs. Nc
Brides register when young Robinson. II
il was he who was here Left the city.
he VIM follow up the list of vessels leay-
ing about that time In case he is suc-
sal
ing the owners of the vessel to find from
their records how dong The man was
aboard her. If he can find where he
was discharged he will make that the
point Of his next investigation All Of this
will cost money but This the people who
win get the fortune in case Robinson does
not turn IN are willing 10 nav Mir Rfs-
don saws that $1,000 has already been
expended and thew are ready TO 20 $40 900
more in the search.
The next heirs are the sisters and broth
ers or Curtis E Robinson father of the
man who was here in 1870 some Of then,
are well-to-do In tho world and want 10
discover their lost nepheW. If thev are NOT
successful in this. they win come into tba
properly themselves: II thew are. thew
are sure that he win renav tbe,o an tbev
have snenf in The search AR Riedon ~
ceived a letter from one of tbam Mrs
F5anes Of Soufh Tcrarninphau Nass WIZ
As now in Florida This ladv is well CON
nectea and has considerable property
Yol,ns~ Fobineon himself haa notbino, ~ H.,
ashamed of IN tbe wav Of relativas as
his fathers brother was a governor of
Massachusetts. ana others of them we've
wen known IN that state His father seem
ed to have beon The black sheen Of The
FANNY as his dissolute life IN Chieapo
shows
Dnrine the five wears and moro of tho
search for the heir since The death If me
elder Tsobinson there hove been t,.o or
4hrea tin,es when Mr. T9isaon bae tto,,obt
ha had 5isaoverad bie man 0nca Il 10
thn,,~bt mar h ma heen locstaa ~
sbanabai china II was learned that y
T-red n Robinson Ma deserted from, n
Prisisl vessel ~ mar MACE IN 1880 and
II ,.as tbo,,ostt fi,.t tl,is y1,,a, 10 M ,,,n
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