The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1902-10-05
MYSTERY 0F
blRT BROWN
Woman Who Receives Month
Iy Allowances.
AND WARNING LETTERS
Every Time She Starts to Fall
in Love.
AND WARNING LETTERS

rot know.
Who is the mysterious person that sends
her 50 every month and 800 every Christ
mas and every July 10? she does not
know.
once she was called by 4 prettier name.
but now she is legally Nary Brown The
forms OF law giving her the name were
compiled with. Whye
The mysterious some one sends her the
money ordered me change OF The name
Is this friend q Mary Brown "a phiIan-
troph.st who would conceal his good
works Is it conscience money! AIary
Brown does not know
She has had two love affairs. When
one of these appeared 70 he verging on
Elatrimouy she received warning that
II she married the remittances would
cease
Ever since she can remember Mary
Brown has sought 10 ind out something
about herself-she is tweuty-seven years
oid-and has failed utterly. But the un-
known mysterious eye is always upon
her Co where she wiz, and she travels
much, the remittances always follow.
She has guardian. whose appointment
vas suggested By the unknown. The
guardian knows little about the young
woman as she does herself
The order directing her 20 change her
name came when she was a young girl
Fer memory carries her back 10 the tine
when she was il a brooklyn orphanage
and where she was given the name Of
Fanny Winters. There vas no ezplana-
ton in the order IL was an abrupt COM
mand 70 legally take the name of Mary
Brown, under pain Of losing her income.
Naturally Miss Brown is most anxious
10 ind out something about her parentase
and the explanation Of the remiuances
In all they amount TO about s1l0J3-aud
o. the interest which causes the unknown
TO direct and 50 imperiousiy The import
ant things in her life.
The young woman has just LEFT Toledo,
after a weeks visit 10 go 70 her home
IN Mexico y \ She visited in this
LEGALITY the family of Earl Rives Of Tr0w-
bridge. whose wife was one Of her school
mates at Mexico. Mrs. Rives and Miss
Brown have kept up q desultory CORE
spOndence for several years
When seen by the World correspondent
Miss Brown said at first that she PREFER
ed not 70 speak Of her peculiar life his
tory. but she was eventually persuaded
that some light might be thrown q
her antecedents through publicity. and
then she spoke freely Of her past and
the mysteries with which her life is sLr-
rounded
Ny first recollection" said she. is
that I lived in an orphanaEe in Brook
lyn. 1 was then called Fanny Winters.
and how 1 got that name I have never
been able 70 learn. I was told one day
that ] was doorstep wait' and had
teen placed in the orphanage by people
on whose doorstep / had been found.
in and care for me-
'.Perhars the most remarkable incident
in connection with ms life is the fact that
! am always provided with money. no
matter where i so Every month since
I was taken from the orphanase so has
been mailed TO me- and on July 10 and
Christmas day an extra 500 is sent. this
always comes IN the shape OF bank bills
or greenbacks. never draft. check OF
money order OF any kind Never has
this failed except once about seven years
ego. when one monthly remittance was
missed I think probably The letter in
closing l. vas stolen from the mails. lest
or destroyed. such things do happen
with the mails occasionally.
when I was about eleven years old
one OF my teachers or nurses came 10
me one day where I was playing with
couple Of little girls and called ne 70
one side. She said u me. Fanny. q nice
man and woman have come after you
and viii take you % a nice home IN the
country I may never see you again;
promise me you VIII always be a good
girl.
Il scarcely understood What she meant.
but pretty soon / was called into one
Of the rooms and there Tor the first time
saw MI and 1Irs. Jerome aIartin. who
took me 20 their hone OF a farm near
Mexico. Y. Y. Tor some reason ! believed
they knew something of my pareutase,
but Mrs Martin always insisted -hat She
vas rot in the case. and they both
treated me very kindly. Mr.. Esrri1 was
appointed my guardian and he neve-. So
fsr as I know. failed q make q careful
RCcourting of my money matters
The Martins sent me 10 school ard 1T
tee M for teschinS i So desired. yet
they never appeared To wish me o. leave
them II was a Eood home as long as
Ms. Martin lived
T have lived with the ,Ear-t-s about
three years Rhen letter came 20 NY
guardian inci1sins the usual monthly re-
uaittanoe. which always before had been
mailed 10 me il care 81 Nr. &arciu- The
Nrriter demanded that IN the facu-e
should be called Mary Brcwa- The let
Ter which nas unsigned and apparently
v-ritten f. disguised female hand also
said that MY na-ne WAS r-Ecy,Gi,y Brow.
ara that If J desired my monthly rarlt-
sances continued must consent to haFe
~ name nade legally Mary Brown
1T always appeared 20 ire rather sin
gular that this did not appeal 20 the
.,,rsositv Of either NJ. or Ars. Martin
sue u did not The following day my
raarsian began the necessary Proceedings
<, have ny name changed. ana since lae1
have borne The plain. simple name az
Nay Pr5vvn. which NY Uakn0wn proSi1-
~ assures me. in 50 Tar as the Brown
oe-r Of Il Is concerned. belongs 20 lre
when I was a5oGt yEe1tJ-tWo wears
AZ aro Afrs. Martha died after BRIEF ili-
RES. During her sickness ~ Martin s
widowed sister cane on from some place
rev-n Esast ana remained afte- re fan-
ell bad been atred ior teaching. ss-
frarialtv in Kindergarten work. s4Eses,-
- 2 few DAYS after The funeral. th2t I
xosd seek employment Not that
needed the employment as / had saved
considerable money. bUt 7 an not cas-
-sitnsion2lly- lazy and wanted soleth-ls