The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-06-15
WIFE'S CHASE TO HONOLULU
IN PURSUIT OF HUSBAND
Mrs. Mari Came Here From Massachusetts,,
Found Erring Husband and Kidnapped
Child, and Took Them Home.

known. leaving Mrs. Mari heartbroken
and crushed.
The exact detans Of the trouble that
led I'D to Mars disappearance were
kept a secret. but it was said TO be a
mere tiff. an angry word or two, coming
after a series OF petty quarrels, that from
time TO time are said 70 occur III the
best regulated families that caused a
man to fee $500 miles with his babe III
his arms. aWav from his wife.
AS soon as the distracted mother could
rally her strength. accompanied by her
father, she began her long search. De
tectives had at once been put on the
case and had traced the father and child
to San Francisco.
Fast as flying trains could carry her,
thither journeyed the millionaire's
Misunderstanding for nothing, longing
for nothing, but her child.
AS the trains sped over the 5000 miles
that span the distance from Boston to
San Francisco, old Mr.. Estes feared that
his daughters strength would scarcely
outlive the journey.
At last they reached the city of the
Golden Gate, but, alas instead of JOY
there was only bitter disappointment
Walter Mari had gone and with him
baby Harold, a darlinr fair-haired two
year-old who cried every day for Nam
ma and refused to be consoled by the
big rag doll his father had bought him.
One day there came a reward to all
this. A young man answering to the
description given of the young easterner
had engaged passage on one of the
steamship lines for Honolulu, in the
Hawaiian Islands.
He had baby boy with him who re-
sernbled Harold, too, but instead of his
name being Mari it was Smith, Edward
Smith, on the passenger list, and he was
said to be a widoWer.
Of the MANY clues which one after one
presented themselves. this alone gave
forth a promise. The others had all
been run down and proved false. This
presented a possibility.
So Mrs Mari. and her father, who had
come away leaving his business entirely
in the hands of his three sons, determin-
ed to start at once for Honolulu, the
destination of the man and child.
They had already come 5000 miles on
land, they were now to travel $500 miles
on the ocean, a total of $500 miles, the
longest chase a woman was ever known
to take for man or child
This time their efforts were not to be
doomed to cruel blight, as before In
Honolulu, they found Walter Mari,
known as Edward Smith-worling in a
meat market happy, if not over pros
perous-and the little baby boy with
him
Of how baby gurgled and stretched
out his plump little arms, when he saw
his own little mother standing beside
him, neither Mrs. Mari nor Harold him
self has ever revealed, but the scene is
easy to picture, for when night came the
husband and wife, old Mr.. Estes and the
child were reunited under one roof
At first there were reproaches-and
angry words, but at last love prevailed
the rich father-in-law used all his inf1u-
ence, and when he returned to Fall River
in the fall of 1901, he left behind an ap-
parently devoted couple, the past for
gotten, the future Frightened by each
others affections.
From Honolulu Mrs Mari wrote home