Omaha daily bee., 1903-02-08
FATHER CONES INTO DRAMA
May Change the Program in the ssdler-
Dorre Howard Lsve Story.
WANTS TO KNOW SOMETHING ABOUT GIRL
Just what Part lie Proposes 10 Take
in the MeIOdramatic AFFAIR Does
Not Appear from Letter
Received Here.

Wilhelmina Ssdler again has title to ap-
pear in the public prints. In December
Dorre Howard. a messenger boy Is years
old. shot himself twice, but not fatally. In
a room at the Arcade hotel because he
thought he was going to lose her. January
3 sbo was spirited to the south by her
mother after habeas corpus proceedings in
criminal court. Two weeks ago, other mes
enger boys say. the youthful lover tried
to trail her and beat his way as far as
Kansas City, where he gave up the chase
and returned to Omaha. Now there appears
In the little drama a man who ahHrms he
Is her father and who demands to know
HI has been going on.
Attorney John o. Yeiser, who represented
Mrs. Sadler Of 119h North Fifteenth street.
mother Of the girl, declines to give out a
word concerning this latest development,
but it is understood that there has come
to DR.. E.. w. Powell, the attending physi-
clan OF the boy, a letter dated at Yoakum,
Tex. January 16, and signed by R. w. Sad
Ter, wit is apparently an employee Of the
San Antonio & Arkansas Pass Railroad com.
pany.
The letter is said to contain the explana-
tion that the writer saw in a newspaper
an account Of the dramatic incidents oc.
curing In Omaha and to contain also the
statement that he is the father of the girl
and would like to have her questioned as
to her surroundings without her mother be-
ing present.
Protests on Being Dead.
When Mrs. sadler was on the stand she
testified that she was divorced from her
husband twelve years ago and that he had
not been heard from in ten years and Is
presumed to be dead.
The writer of the letter protests that he
is the ~liveliest corpse in the whole state
Of Texas. He further narrates certain al
legged family history, stating that he mar
ried the girls mother (then Miss Mary
Ryman) at Big Springs in February, 1882;
that the daughter was born in December
Of that year, that in 1892 he left the two
and went to Monterey, Mexico, the wife and
girl going to Fort Worth, Tex, where the
latter was placed in a convent; that he
subsequently went to Fort Worth and car
rled the girl away with him and into
Mexico, that the wife and mother followed
and by certain provisions Of the Mexico Law
was enabled to recover possession Of the
child and return her to the Fort Worth
convent, that later he learned the two had
gone to Omaha, but that he never knew
exactly their whereabouts until he read Of
the incidents here.
Where the girl is now very few peopl;
in Omaha know. All the information
vouchsafed is hat she is In a convent neal
ST. Louis aud has grown to like the place
Every effort is mace to keep young How.
ard from learning her location. that there
may be no Romeo-Juliet balcony work un
til both are old enough to know better
than to try 1t. On the stand the mother
testified that the girl was just come II
the day she left home, shortly before thu
shooting escapsde. 1t was this fact tina
enabled the mothers attorney to secure
for the parent the custody Of the child, al
under the Texas law a child is a minor uu.
til Fl years old. Thu statement OF tbs
writer of the letter received this weel
would make the girl a trile more than 2
years old, but still within the provisions
Of the law which governed Judge Baxte
when he gave the child to the mother
What the letter writer proposes to do, 1
anything, is not stated.