The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-12-06
AFTER NINE YEARS
MOTHER FINDs HER
 CHILD.
Daughter Returns from Coper gen to Wealthy Home at End of Ceaseiess Search.


 Nine years unremitting search for ost child has just ended successfully Tor Mrs. Ella Robbins of Willmar, .Minn. Af- ter having almost relinquished, hope oI hgain seeing her daughter. Of whom all trace was lost when she was but an in- fant. the mothers persistent efforts have inaly been rewarded. .N~
 The story of how she was lost and found is as romantic as anything ever read in fiction. In 1898 Mrs. Robbins, then Mrs. Ella Starr, was left a wido% with one chlld, and as she was totally without means she took her little 2-year- bid Myra to the Minnesota State Public School for Dependent Children, where she placed her under the personal charge of the n1atron. She then made her way to another State, where she found work.
 A year later the matron, kind-hearted woman named Mason. went on a visit to a Mir. and Mrs. Trembly of Copenhagen. N. F.. and took little Myra with her. The Trembleys, who were middle aged and without children, fell in love with the .pretty child and offered to adopt her. Mrs. Mason, who had not once heard from Mrs. Starr since the day she left the child in her caro. after some he's ftation consented. and Myra Pearl Starr became Nina Trembly.
 No Child to Enjoy Fortune.
 Shortly after Mrs. Starr married mill lionaire. named Robbins. and, once more being able to support her child, visited the State school for tho purpose of talk Hing her back to her new home In, New York. But when she applied for permis- sion to see the child she learned that she was not there that the matron was dead land that no one could tell her what had | ome of her daughter. Detectives were pu. on the case. and. as 1t was believed #that little Myra had been transferred to some private ,sta staalishment, 1t was deter mined to search every school in tho United State.
 No trace of her. however, was discov- ered for nine years, when detective Twisted a school in Copenhagen for the Xostensible purpose of selling books. but really with the object of photographing the children. He politely requested to be al- Flowed to do this. and when he had tak7n several groups he dispatched them to Mrs Robbins, who intS ntly recognized her *daughter by the strong resemblance the child bore to its deceased father.
 Mrs. Robbins at once set out for Co., *penhagen. and called on the Tremblys, ex- plained her mission. and requested to be allowed to take the child back with her. After much persuasion they consented to & this, though MT. Trembly insisted on &C., companylng mother and daughter back # to New York to satisfy himself that the child would have an acceptable home to go to. When he found that MT. and Mrs. Robbins were people of wealth and much #respected, he relinquished- his claim to the child. and little Nina Tremb'y once more changed her name.
 Travels 50,00o Miles In Search.
 Hardly less notable was the case Of Erica Thornton Egbert of Chicago. whose mothers travels over 5000 miles in search of her child attracted world wide atten- tion How the child was lost will ever # remain a mystery.
 One afternoon in June 1900. Mrs. Eg- bert was walking down Madison avenue with her little girl. then four years of M age. when she was astonished to come face to face with her husband from whom she was separated. and whom she believed. to be still in India. Mrs. Egg bert was so astounded that she forgot all about the little girl. and 1t was only after bidding her husband good-by that she realized the child had vanished. She 4 raced up and down the street. but not a vestige of her daughter could she see she had disappeared as completely as though the street had swallowed her up.
 Detectives were put on the case, but they utterly failed to trace the missing child, and then Mrs. Egbert determined to devote her whole life to the search # #luntil the ltle girl was once more with her After ransacking America from one lend to the other without success she made her way to Europe. but with no bet tier result. Then she thought that possi- lbly her husband might have returned to iIndia and taken the child with him, and lthither she determined to follow.
 That was more than eighteen months zlago. and last June Mrs. Egbert's friends received cable from her saying that she , had found the child and was returning to &iChicago with her. The circumstances un- E lder which she found the child Mrs. Egg Ebert refused to divulge. merely saying Z that she had travelled 5000 miles to find liner daughter, and that she was only too Hthankful that success had at last re- lwarded her long search.
 Found After Forty Years. I But the longest continued successful search of recent years Is that of Mime 8SGratskl, the wife of an official at the eourt of St. Petersburg. In 1863 her child, ] san infant of two years, was stolen, pre- sumably by Russian gypsies. Husband band wife immediately took up the search, (which they followed with unremitting E zeal from year to year, and though they 2 had the help of the cleverest detectives Throughout Europe and spent thousands 1 Z an the search, no trace of the missing Marcel Gratski was discovered. In 1893 1t was thought that the child, | how a man of S2, had been located. for on | N her deathbed Russian refugee had con- fessed that many years before she had | stolen a child belonging to Russian mo- | 4ble and brought him up as her own | SlThe clew was followed, but it was soon | I made plain that. though the wretched woman had undoubtedly robbed some un- N fortunate mother. the stolen child was z hot the lost Marcel.
 Ten years more passed by. and then Mime Gratskl, old and feeble, received f hn anonymous communication telling her that she would find her son in a certain 2 6mall town not many miles from Moscow. sThither she made her way, and entering small brasserie shop where the letter