The Waxahachie daily light. [volume] (Waxahachie, Tex.) 1894-current, 1908-07-24
A LONG QUEST
IS TERMINATED
Cowboy Preacher Travels Thous-
ands Of Miles in Search
for Child.
ACROSS THE CONTINENT 7
Father Spent Twelve Months in a
Chase that Led from State TO
State Before Success Was
Attained.

Elder James l.. Rae, famous in
Pacific for the untiring quest of his
S-year-old child, Lorena, whom, with
her erring mother, the heartbroken
but determined father has followed
for twelve months, covering $1,000
miles and spending $4,000 in order
to feel her loving arms twine about
his neck and speak into his ear the
sweetest of all words, papa" was
in Waxahachie Friday morning en-
route to his home in Memphis.
There he will settle down to
peaceful career, content with the
childish love of the little fairy, whom
he loves better than life to whom he
will devote the remainder of his days
| to rear her to a beautiful woman
hood.
Mr.. Rae and the object OF his long
quest arrived in the city on the east
! bound Central and went north on
| the Katy at 1906. He formerly lived
in Ellis county and is well known to
/ many citizens. Twenty years ago he
followed the vocation of a farmer in
the White League country. Later he
worked a year at Palmer as a bar
Der and followed the same occupation
in this city.
Mr.. Rae is well known in many OF
the larger cities of the country which
he visited in his quest and columns
in the metropolitan press have been
devoted to his story and his search
a tale that quickens the pulse of
every man and stirs to it's deepest
core the sympathy of every woman
tale that pulses with the life blood
of humanity and re-echoes from the
j reyerberating heart-strings of the
thousands of souls that have chanced
| to hear it.
| Rev. Mr.. Rae has just gained pos
session of his charming little black
eyed daughter through a court decis-
ion at Denver, and now for the first
| time in four years the care-worn ex-
preston of anxiety that never before
left his countenance, has given way
up his strong features through the
lines that always furrow his rugged
face.
While waiting for his train Mr..
Rae rehearsed how he was happy in
a home which he thought was the
essence of perfection and contentment
and how not until after the fourth
child had been born did he have the
slightest suspicion of break in the
family circle. Once his steel-gray
eyes were dim with tears when he
mentioned that, while living at Man
gum, Okla, his wife left him on
June 6, 1906, presumably to visit
relatives in Denton county.
| Four weeks later the wife return
ed in company with her brother-in-
law and explained that she had de-
cided to make an extended visit and
that she desired to take nearly all OF
her belongings. No suspicion was
aroused until the husband saw that
his own trunk had been filled with
articles not essential in such trip,
and 1t was then that he objected. An
alteration ensued and only the fact
that pistol had been previously oil
ed with kerosene and had since
grown rusty saved the life of George
Stevens, the brother-in-Iaw
Two shots were fired and both
took effect In the head Of the victim
and so seriously were they that the
man lay at deaths door in a hospital
for eleven weeks before he finally
won in the uneven battle. But a few
days more and the wife had disap-
peared and with her went Lorena
the fathers idol.
Then came the wearisome but ex-
citing chase.
From Mangum to Lone Wolf, and
from Lone Wolf to Roswell, N. NJ,
from there tracing and retracing his
steps. the determined husband, ever
with the hope OF gaining possession