The San Francisco call., 1899-05-14
DID Mr. HOL MES
BUILD A FAIRY
CASTLE IN SPAIN 2
Queer Disappearance
Of an " Heir
LURED BY RICHES AND RANK
ROMANTIC CONSTANCY OF HIS
PRETTY DAUGHTER.
ROMANTIC CONSTANCY OF HIS
PRETTY DAUGHTER.
Sadie, Once Typewriter at the Palace,
Married Her True Love, and With
Her Mother Only Wants
Papa to Return.

What has become of Frederick
homes, sometime associate broker in the
firm of f. NJ. Petersen & Co.. SOC Battery
street? His friends here are asking each
other where he can be and what he can
be doing.
Last April Mr. Holmes left San Fran
cisco TO go to Liverpool to take possession
OF an estate which was to make him rich
and give his daughter, Sadie Holmes, the
title and estates of Lady Jane Bretherton.
Miss Holmes was employed at the Palace
Hotel as typewriter, and Mr.. Holmes
had just passed through the insolvency
court when the letters informing him o.
his fortune came from London.
A lawyer, B. f. Hamilton of London,
wrote Mr.. Holmes that his aunt, Lady
Jane Bretherton, was dead, and that he
ana MS daughter Sadie were her heirs.
Mr.. HamilUon's S letter was followed by
further letters from a lawyer in Liverpool
who represented himself as the admins
traitor of the estate. He said there was
large amount of money lying in the
bank Tor the heir, who must prove his
claim.
On the strength of these letters, which
were shown to them, his friends raised
a purse to defray Mr.. Holmes expenses
to Liverpool.
Miss Holmes gave UP her position and
happy time came when they would all be
rich and she would be Lady Sadie Breth,
erton, mistress of a beautiful castle in
Wales, with its dependent village, where
my lady" would find her greatest joy in
being My Lady Bountiful
December l came letters from Mr..
Holmes from Liverpt ool Everything
was going well and he would be at home
by Christmas and celebrate their acces-
sion to great wealth with his wife and
On December 26 came another letter.
There was some trouble. He had not a
copy of his marriage certificate, and
must go to Panama, where the ceremony
occurred, TO procure a copy of the GER
titicate.
He has not been heard from since A
man saying he had been fellow pasSen-
ger with Mr.. Holmes from Liverpool to
Panama could give no clew to the present
whereabouts of Mr.. Holmes:
After a few months silence A. 5.
Lowndes, an old friend of Mr.. Holmes,
and one of the friends who had wished
him a financial godspeed, wrote to his
nephew, who lives near London. Mr..
Lowndes asked his nephew to go up to
London and see the lawyer, Mr.. Hamil-
ton, who had first written to Mr. Holmes.
But there was no such man and no such
lawyer, and now people are wondering
how much of the castles in Wales and
of the castles in Liverpool were castles in
Spain.
any Lady Bretherton. Whittaker's AL
manac gives ten English Baronesses in
their own right ana three SCOTCH bdIOU-
esses. but neither Welsh nor Irish ladies
who inherit in the direct line the same as
male issue
titles. There is an Hon. Mrs. Bretherton-
Stapleton daughter of Lord Petre, but
she lived in Essex, and, unfortunately for for
the little San Francisco countess, had
five daughters and one son, and has not
yet died.
It looks as if even Lady Jane Brother
ton lives in her castle in Spain. Miss
hos Ch herself a a n
the right sort of stuff. Her father brought
a wealthy Englishman TO his home and
introduced him to his daughter, urging
her to accept his devotions,. and to think
no more Of her betrothed, Joe Glaser. a
young tea merchant at 1903 stockton
street Not at all said Miss Sadie.
Mr. Glaser has loved me when poor; l
shall love only him when | am rich, and
in defiance of her fathers commands she
married her own true love. They are
very happy. and do not care much
whether the castles are in Spain or in
Mr.. Holmes has lived in San Francisco
man by birth, and left his home in Lon
don in the sixties to seek his fortune.
He went to Panama, and there married
a beautiful girl. the present Mrs. Holmes,
still a remarkably beautiful woman of
the dark Spanish type; Then they went
to Peru. and there Sadie was born Then
a treaty port. of Mexico; Thence he
came to San Francisco in the
very early fifties His knowledge OF
Spanish and his Central American con-
nections helped him to get the best of the
Central American trade which came TO
this port Mr.. Holmes made a great deal
of money and has always provided well
His lifelong friends can find no reason
to allege for his failure to reappeadr az nor nor
he should have perpetrated such an out
rage upon his family and friends. He
could have had no reason for, deserting
his wife and their large family of chill
dren. who are waiting anxiously for news
of him. -,
son unknown to any one but her nus
hand for his failure to communicate
either with her or his business associates.
She believes implicitly that he will return
and that everything will be well.
Why he should have gone to Panama rama NJ
for his marriage record when 1t could be
so easily obtained by correspondence IS a
mystery 1t is equally mysterious why Wy,
he should have raised the hopes of his
daughter and of his family IS, SO III high Il Il
there was no foundation for MS story III
there were no truth in his tale why does
he not come home, or at least write?