Los Angeles herald., 1906-12-10
WHERE IS SISTER?
IS POLICE QUERY
TRACING BROTHER THROUGH
RELATIVE y
Fortunes FaVorite Left ST. st. Louis
to Claim Windfal and Has
Not Since Been Heard
From

Somewhere in Los Angeles is living
a sister of Francis Frederick Beau
mont, an aged man for whom the DO
lice of two continents are searching.
The woman's name is not known, but
enorts are being made to find her by
Chlef Desmond of the st. Louis force
in the hope that she may be able to
throw some light on the disappearance
OF her brother who went to London in
January year ago to claim fortune
which had been left him. His wife,
Mrs Nellie Beaumont, 279S
olive street, ST. Louis, has requested
Chief Desmonds aid and he in turn
has written to Scotland Yard with the
intention of having the detectives there
aid In the search. According to her
story great fortune had been left
her husband by woman whose life
he had saved when he was 10 years
of age. He was rs when he left this
| country.
She told Chief Desmond that she
married Beaumont during the Worlds
Fair after a courtship lasting a few
| weeks. She said she heard from him
after he got to Southampton, England,
and that in his last letter he said he
was going on to London, where he
would get his fortune and start home
within a week. The letter was writ
the in April, 1905, and Mrs Beaumont
says she has not since heard from
her husband. She fears, she says, that
he is being detained in London against
his Will by relatives, who hope to come
into possession Of the big fortune that
was willed to him.
| During the Worlds Fair Mrs Beau
mont then Mrs. Smith, was keeping
rooming house at 1924 Washington
avenue. She said that Beaumont, who
came to st. Louis to get certified
papers Of his war record to prove his
identity, took room at 1912 North
Twelfth street and took his meals at
her boarding house.
1t was a case of love at first sight,
and although Beaumont was past 20
and Mrs. Smith was toeing the half
century mark, it took them but few
weeks to make match. Mrs. Beau
mont had papers to show that she was
married September II, 1904, at st.
| Peters German Evangelical church.
| Fourteenth and Carr streets.
Sinking the Last Time
AT the time of the marriage, she
says, she knew nothing about the
Australia fortune that had been left
to Beaumont. Subsequently he told
her that when he was a boy he saved
Mrs. Josephine Hilderbrandt from
drowning in lake in Australia. The
woman, he said, was rowing on the
lake with her son, when the boat was
capsized. He saw the accident and
swan out to rescue the drowning per-
sons. He got to Mrs. Hildebrandt lust
as she was sinking for the last time
and succeeded in getting her safely
ashore, but the boy was drowned
That happened more than fifty years
ago. Beaumont, according to the
womans story, afterward came to
America and was living in Los An
geles when firm of London lawyers
found him and told him that Mrs.
Hildebrandt had died and willed him
her fortune, consisting of large sum
of money and many valuable jewels.
For several months after the mar
riage Beaumont remained in st. Louis,
procuring copies of the needed records
Mrs Beaumont said he got the neces-
sary papers in January 1905, and left
the middle of that month for London
At New York he was stricken down
with gastritis and remained there un-
til February 4. when he took passage
for London. When he got to South
ampton he was too sick to continue
the journey to London and went to a
hospital, where he remained for seven
weeks Leaving the hospital he wrote
a letter to Mrs Beaumont, saying that
he had heard from his lawyers and
had established his identity to their
satisfaction and that he had only to
run over TO London, get his money and
start back to St. Louis.
Mrs. Beaumont says she wrote to
the American consul at London and
requested him to inquire into her hus-
bands disappearance. She said the
lawyers name was Saunders The
consul conferred with all the London
attorneys he could find by that name,
but none of them had a client named
Beaumont.
She said that her husband had a
niece living In the outskirts of Lon
don whose name she doesn't know. |
Once before when he was sick I'm Lon |
don this niece took care of him
She expressed the fear that when |
her husband reached London he was |
In feeble condition and that his rela-
tives had persuaded him to remain |
with them In the hope of coming into |
possession of his fortune at his death. |
Mrs. Beaumont said she was not
satisfied with the investigation made |
by the American consul and requested |
Chief Desmond to lay the facts before |
the Scotland Yard detective bureau. |
Desmond promised TO do what he |
could to find the missing man. Mrs. |
Beaumont says her husband has a |
sister I'm Los Angeles, whose name She |
raes not know She says she once |
loaned Beaumont $40 and that he |
lived at her boarding house from the |
time of the marriage until he departed |
IN quest OF the fortune.