New-York tribune., 1906-07-15

IN l suppose the child year old when
it happened"
Cautioning Miss Fothergill to remember that the
editor of The Times was in front. Sinclair saun-
tered out the Palace saloon where he had thought
fully arranged to meet the young connected
with The Times" To the press agents plan of
campaign that enthusiastic and ambitious reporter
was just then the most important person in Prairie
City. He was on hand, waiting for Sinclair, and
they fingered together for sometime while the press
agent enhanced the heeting 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 still damp
from the press, dropped its spoon and gasped.
This IS what 1t read in the center of the first page
next to the standing display ad Of BensonS Bargain
Store:
rs 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 ever told in
Prairie City, and one which may prove to be the
solution of the mystery surrounding the disappear
ance 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 our reporter
1t IS less startling a suggestion than that Miss
Flora FOthergil, the talented Young emotional star
appearing the Opera House with great success
in a select repertoire under the management of Mr.
James Thomas MCCIillicuddy, is other than
the missing Robinson heiress.
Until her arrival in Prairie City, where her
appearance was welcomed by an Outpouring of
society elect and hailed by capable critics
artistic triumph second to witnessed in
city Miss Fothergil had never revealed the mystery
that shrouds her past Sensitive all true artists
are on matters concerning themselves alone, she
preferred to appear before the public simply as an
artist and be judged solely from artistic standards
When, however, 1t was brought to her ears, during
her participation in exclusive society function
arranged in her honor by some of our cubwomen.
that James ROlllnson's infant daughter had been
stolen by Indians several years ago and that her
fate IS still a mystery. the talented young actress
determined at to speak, and, by revealing her
life secret, possibly dispel the Robinson mystery.
1t appears that Miss Fothergill, as she IS known
in the world of the stage, though her own name IS
quite different, also stolen by Indians from
her fathers cabin in the West when she but an
infant OF her early life she knows little, except
that her earliest recollectiOns are of kind foster
parents who told her she purchased for a trllng
from squaw while still infant by her foster
mother, who touring the West and recognized
her as a white baby in the Indians arms. Miss
Fothergl 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 case and that of Mabel Robinson is too
striking to pass as a coincidence and Manager James
Thomas McGi1Icuddy IS arranging to institute
searching inquiries into the facts.
Miss FothergiI, supported by a strong company