Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-07-15

in. 1 suppose the child a year old or so when
it happened"
Cautioning Miss Fothergill to remember that the
editor of The Times was in front, Sinclair
tered out to the Palace saloon where he had thought
fully arranged to meet the young man connected
with The Times" To the press agents plan of
campaign that enthusiastic and ambitious reporter
just then the most important person in Prairie
City. He hand, waiting for Sinclair, and
they fingered together for sometime while the press
agent enhanced the fleeing moments with his
hospitality and his conversation The mine was laid
and The Times man finally hurried to his Office
to strike the match
The next morning Prairie City, stirring its coffee
and unfolding The Times - while it was still damp
from the press, dropped its spoon and gasped.
This is what it read in the center of the first page,
next to the standing display ad of Benson's Bargain
Store:
Is SHE MISSING HEIREss? FLORA FoTHERGILL,
ACTRESS Now AT OPERA House, MAY BE LoNG-LosT
MABEL ROBINSON. STRANGE TALE Is UNFoLDED.
WAS STOLEN BY INDIANS IN HER INFANCY FROM
THIS REGION AND NEVER LEARNED REAL IDENTITY.
One of the most remarkable stories told in
Prairie City, and which may prove to be the
solution of the mystery surrounding the disappear
twenty-five years ago of little Mabel Robinson,
the infant daughter of the late James Robinson,
one of our most esteemed and highly respected
merchants, disclosed last night to reporter
1t is no less startling suggestion than that Miss
Flora Fothergil the talented young emotional star
appearing at the Opera House with great
in a select repertoire under the management of Mr.
James Thomas McGillcuddy, is none other than
the missing Robinson heress.
Until her arrival in Prairie City, where her
appearance was welcomed by an outpouring of
socetys elect and was hailed by capable critics as an
artistic triumph second to witnessed in our
city, Miss Fothergill had revealed the mystery
that ShroudS her past Sensitive all true artists
matters concerning themselves alone, she
preferred to appear before the public simply as an
artist and to be judged solely from artistic standards
When, however, it was brought to her ears, during
her participation in exclusive society function
arranged in her honor by some of Our clubwomen
that James Rollinson's infant daughter had been
stolen by Indians several years ago and that her
fate is still mystery, the talented young actress
determined at once to speak, and, by revealing her
life secret possibly dispel the Robinson mystery.
1t appears that Miss Fothergl she is known
in the world of the stage, though her name is
quite different, was also stolen by Indians from
her fathers cabin in the West when she was but an
infant. Of her early life she knows little except
that her earliest recollectons of kind foster
parents who told her she purchased for trifng
from squaw while still infant by her foster
mother, who touring the West and recognized
her a white baby in the Indians arms. Miss
Fothergill educated for the stage by her foster
parents, who unable to tell her. of course, how
she came into the custody of the Indians in what
part of the West she had been stolen The parallel
between her and that of Mabel Robinson is too
striking to pass coincidence, and Manager James
Thomas McGilhcuddy is arranging to institute
searching inquiries into the facts.
Miss Fothergill, supported by strong company