The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1901-06-03

ognized her sister. Since coming to this
county McDougal has been known by
the name Of John D. Coates, and his
adopted daughter is married. Her hus-
band Is Frank Shaw. a prominent farm
er Of the Elk River section.
William r. McLaren, the father of
Mrs. Shaw, was seen at Punahou by an
Advertiser reporter yesterday. slr. Nc
Laren hopes in the near future to be
able to go to Falk. California, where his
daughter is now residing, only a quar-
ter of a mile away from McDougal and
his wife, who have confessed everything
concerning the identity of the stolen
girl to Mrs. Hill of San Jose, formerly
Marian McLaren.
McDougal. when brought face to face
with the facts which We're in the pos
session of the long-lost daughter and
Mrs. Hill, said that he had been unable
TO restore Mrs. Shaw to her father, as
he had long ago learned that Mr.. Nc
Laren was dead. He said he had written
to Honolulu to learn something of her
father, but he had received only the
news of his death. As to why he chose
to keep the secret of the child's birth
away from the wronged woman, neitheE
he nor his wife will tell.
ut is just twenty-three years ago this
coming July said Mr.. McLaren yester-
day, when this man McDougal came to
Honolulu-in the year 1879. 1 had come
here the year before. My wife died in
San Francisco and my three little girls,
Rachel being the youngest and then on
ly little more than two years of age.
were sent down to me. / had the two
older girls put in school, but what to do
with the baby was what troubled me. I
| Mr. s,,d IL
was there that l became acquainted with
McDougal, who claimed to be a secret
service man in the employ of the United
States Government. He was a fine big,
strapping man, about feet 2 inches In
height, l think. His wife was with him.
and both professed to take a big interest
in Rachel.
1T was while was bordering what to
do with the little one that McDougal
made the proposition to me to allow him
to adopt her. He pressed me and press
ed me, and finally I gave in. Legal pa
pers of adoption were drawn up and
signed and the little child was put into
their care. Shortly afterwards McDou-
gal came to me and said he had been
called back to Seattle and would leave
the next day. He promised me he wnHld
write often, apprising me of my daush-
ter. and so it was the child left the ISL
ands. / did hear once or twice from
EMcDougal, and then came a letter from
him stating that as he was a secret ser
vice man, and often on important mis-
sions he would have to stop writing to
me, as it would reveal his whereabouts.
and from that time ON never heard
from him, or of them. Not until six
weeks ago did 1 know what had become
of my daughter, although 1 was con-
stantly searching for her. Friends of
mine wrote to prominent people on the
Coast, from Seattle to Los Angeles, but
without avail.
From the letters 1 have received from
my daughter, she says that for years
she knew of relatives of hers, said to be
in far-away lands, and McDougal show
ed her a picture of himself and wife.
with herself sitting on his knee, and her
two sisters beside her. This was taken
in Honolulu. When she became old
enough to understand, she began to ask
questions which were never answered
except that they said one of the pictures
was of her Uncle Philip They kept
the photographs from her and for the
last fourteen fifteen years she has
been in the dark as to who her rela-
tives WERE McDougal, she says, was
an Ananias, and that he is not and new
the statement that he is not in his right
mind, and has been confined in several
asylums. Her earliest remernbrances
were of rude cabin in which the Nc
Douglas lived, the windows of which
were barred.
THE fact is that McDougal Is crazy"
said Mr.. McLaren, land probably was
when he was in Honolulu. However he
deceived us all as to his identity He
has been going under the name OF
Coates. He changed my daughters
name from Rachel to Agnes, and there
Is everything to point to his having en-
deavored to prevent my daughter from
ever learning who her father was. She
wasSmarried when is years old. She
heard that there Were McLarens in Ho-
noluiu and wrote to the Chief of Po-
lice as she calls him--High Sheriff
Brown. Mr.. Bachelor, clerk in the
High Sheriff's office, did not know Of
any Philip McLaren' in Honolulu, and
happened to be talking about the mat
ter to one of my friends one day, who
told Mr.. Bachelor that i was looking for
a lost daughter. We had conference
with the result that / have at last been
united to my daughter, and one of her
sisters has already been to greet her