Los Angeles herald., 1908-06-02
BRIDE SAFE;
TAYLORS REJOICE
MISSING WOMAN Is FOUND
NEAR GLEND0RA
ASLEEP IN BRUSH, DISCOVERED
BY RANCHER
Happiest Man In Los Angeles Is
JeweIer Whose Wife Has
Been Restored to
Him

The happiest man in Los Angeles
last night undoubtedly was e. A. Tay-
lor. whose bride of two months, form
erly Miss Ada Showalter, well-known
musician and at one time organist in
the First Methodist church here, was
found asleep on a brush pile IN the
lonely hills of Glendora yesterday
morning, after having Vainly been
sought from seaside to mountains py
her husband, brother and scores OF
relatives and friends during the long
period between her mysterious olsap-
pearance and discovery.
There was a veritable "famliy re-
.union,' at the residence of the Sho-
wa tiers 1872 South Union avenue, last
night when the young but gray-haireo
husband of the woman--a JeWeler al
217 East Fifth street-clasped MS
beautiful young wife in ms arnis,
Mother, brother and close relatives anu
friends gathered around them, Weepins
from excessive joy and hardly able 10
realize that she was really living, wnen
so many had given her up as deau' tne
victim of her own hand, or OF anotner s.
Mrs. Taylor was brought nome py
her husband about $3.50 O'CLOCK III .ne
afternoon, 1t was about noon "nen
he a arrived at the home of John Bender,
the Glendora nurseryman, VINO Iouhu
the woman asleep in a canyon pack OIL
his nursery at GAS o'clock yesterday
morning and who recognized her from
her long. red cloak, white waist ana
blue skirt, as the woman o1ten oe
scribed in The Herald who disappeared
suddenly from her home nearly TWO
weeks ago.
Finds His Wife
Bender had at once telephoned 10
the Showalters, and the husband, wild
with Joy, rushed to Glendora as fast
as he could get there.
He found his wife waiting at the
Bender place. her hair still disheveled,
her waist badly soiled and torn and her
appearance that of woe-bedraggeled,
dazed and foot-sore traveller, who for
at least ten long and chilly nights had
slept without bed clothing or other
covering in the pile of dead bushes be-
hind the Bender place.
Her shirt waist was somewhat torn
and her whole appearance In itself was
enough to have betrayed her identity,
yet Mrs. Taylor had on three different
occasions ventured into a Glendora
food without seeming to have attract
ed the attention of the grocer.
How the grocer could have looked
at her. soiled and haggard as she was,
and in every other way fitting the de-
scription so often published, without
recognizing her is mystery, her nus
band said last night, which he cannot
solve.
The meeting of husband and wife at
the Bender place was extremely pa
thetic, though joyous. The wife, ber
fore a word had escaped her lips, fell
into his arms and for several minutes
with tear-dimmed eyes, though MS
face was radiant with happiness, he
kept saying only, my wife! My wife!
Thank God, 1 have found you'll
Takes Her Home
The happy husband brought his wife
to their home on South Union avenue
and there she was allowed to rest and
recover from her terrible experiences
of the past few days.
The cause of Mrs. Taylor's disap-
pearance was said by her, as we'll as
by her attending physician, to be
form of nervous meloncholia.
"I wanted to be alone" she said, en-
bracine her husband. Forgive me!
Forgive he!" she kept repeating. II
couldn't help it. The desire to get
away from everyone was stronger
than I could bear!" .
Physicians admit this tendency Is
often remarkably strong in women
afflicted by Mrs. Taylor's nervous all
ment.
Late last night. after Mrs. Taylor had
an opportunity to rest, her husband
said:
"My wife tonight is perfectly ra-
tional and we'll, physically and mental
ly. She is extremely happy TO be back
with us and her only regret is in her
knowledge of the anxiety and pain
which she knows she has caused us.
she shows no Ill effects from the long
walk or from the nights spent in the
brush pile. and has not even cold
from 1t.
"She was in dazed condition until
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