The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1904-04-02
EVELYN LOSCUN
STILL MISSING
Whereabouts of Little Child
Given Away by Her Moth
er Is as Yet Unknown
Berkeley Office San Francisco Call.
214S Center street. AprjI /

Berkeley Office San Francisco Call.
2l4S Center street, April 1.
The labyrinth of mystery that sur
rounds the disappearance of little
Evelyn Loscum, the two-year-old
child whose mother gave her away to
a strange woman, was not straight
ened out by the persistent inquiry
that was made to-day into the case
Complications turn up with every new
link to the story and it is no nearer
solution than it was yesterday.
The mother of the child is a tailoress.
who works in Oakland. She has as
sumed her maiden name, Lille Groth
though she uses it with the prefix of
Mrs. instead of Miss. This is the out
come of an unfortunate marriage with
Edouard Loscum, now a Nome miner.
Mrs. Loscum's mother, Mrs. r. B.
Mitchell, told two different stories
about this unhappy affair to-day. One
is that her daughter married Loscum
when she was under age and the other
that she discovered that Loscum al
ready had a wife when he married
Miss Groth, who Is 20 years old. AT
any rate, an annulment of the mar
riage was secured
Mrs. Mitchell's story about the child
is that her daughter came to visit her
last Tuesday in company with a
strange woman. The mother and
strange woman took the child with
them for what was presumed a short
walk. In little while the mother re-
turned to the Mitchell home at 1920
Idaho street, Golden Gate, but alone.
Upon being asked for the child. the
mother said she had given it To the
strange woman. She confessed, too,
that she had not taken her address or
name.
SEARCHES FOR STRANGER.
Mrs. Loscum Groth was rather dis
inclined to tell her mother all. Her
feelings were so wrought up, however.
that she was brought to tears and a
realization of the enormity of her
thoughtlessness. She was so affected
that she came to Berkeley to INQUIRE
of some people named Cheney for the
name of the strange woman. 1t seems
that the stranger had given a Mrs.
Mary Cheney of Berkeley as one of her
references.
Nothing came of this quest, how
ever, and the mother and grandmother
have made no real attempt to find the
child. Mrs. Loscum was not at the.
address given by her mother in Oak
land to-day. In fact her mother was
not very sure as to the whereabouts
of her daughter. She gave several adj
dresses to the inquirers, the most like
ly one being a room in the PIayter
Block in Oakland, but all attempts to
find the woman failed. She probably
has disappeared since last night for
yesterday she was working.at 2117 AIDE
line street, Oakland.
One of the strange features of the
case is that the child, Evelyn, had
been with her grandmother several
months before the grandparent knew
that she was her grandchild. Mrs.
Mitchell had advertised to take care
of a child and her own daughter had
answered the advertisement In the
transaction that accompanied the ex-
change of the child the mother and
daughter were unknown to each other
Mrs. Mitchell confessed this in her
house this afternoon and could give
no explanation of her daughters con-
duct.
INCOHERENT STORY.
AS a matter of fact, Mrs. Mitchell
does not tell a very coherent story.
One moment she says one thing and
the next moment she either contradicts
it or refuses to talk at all. She even
denied the relationship with the child
and mother at one time this after
noon.
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