Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-10-03

daughter. who had not seen one an
other for nineteen years, was brought
about in this city Sunday evening
when Charles P. Riggs, of Marion, Ind,
c-asped in his arms his daughter. Bes-
sic Dot, and Miss Riggs looked into
The face OF her father for the first
time since she was babe
Shave Brings About Reunion.
The reunion was the elimination Of
i a most unusual incident-a shave and
/ 2 chance conversation With a stranger
in barber shop. Mr. Riggs Is !
/ barber in the Spencer House al Ma
rion. While working a Peru. Ind,
eighteen months ago, riggs was shay
ing . stranger, and when : business
trip 10 Iowa was mentioned Rigs to.1
The stranger that IL had { daughter
so-!,ew mere il Iowa. D Re believed he-
. oe =. Iowa This S,-acg=--E:iggS
does -.oc -ow Know tiS -.an.e-,.aps,er2-
Il II So-.,= NY % md the daughter II
Jrfor.. All !. MAS 2o- long unt:. the
father ana daughter were n cores
pon6ence. an: ,:.ei- meeting sunday
was tia result Nj Riggs VII. re-
-nair. II -ha CITY so- a week or -en days
visiting HIS daughter who lives with
/ her cousin. Roy Bates. 1922 South
FRS. street
I Miss Riggs is clerk a. he New
/ England sore and came here q few
weeks ago.
Riggs Tells Story.
I When seen today Mr.. Riggs told an
interesting story Of his long search for
his daughter, which has finally ended
50 happily. II was nineteen years ago
last Memorial Day that Mr.. and Mrs.
Riggs separated. Riggs takes the
blame for the trouble upon himself.
and at the time of the separation did
not grieve over the circumstance.
When he began TO realize. however,
that ne was not to see his baby again,
he awoke 70 his loss. and during all
these years has been trying to find
where Mrs. Riggs had gone. and where
his daughter was.
Mrs. Riggs left Marion with the
baby, according 70 Mr.. Riggs, and
came west. settling at Union. In the
| course Of few years she obtained
divorce in the Hardin county court.
and was happily married 10 Henry H.
Pool. well-known business man of
Union. now manager of the Union
creamery There his daughter. Bessie.
was reared To woInanhood and has
learned 10 love her stepfather for his
N any good qualities
Has Written Many Letters.
Mr. Riggs SAYS he has written thou
sands OF letters. TO one part Of the
country and another. in an effort to
find his daughter, and his replies from
s-masters and police chiefs never
brought any results. Then came the
chance acquaintance at Peru. which
brought about the reunion in the most
unusua! way.
Stranger Finds Long-Lost Daughter.
While at work shaving the stranger
Who from his conversation with
friend in the near chair, Riggs cleaned
that he was in the real estate business
and Was going on his way out to Iowa,
Riggs took occasion to tell the stranger
about his daughter whom he believed
was somewhere out in Iowa, but where
he did not know. In a joking sort Of
a way the stranger told Riggs that if
he found his daughter "out in Iowa
he would tell her about her father. and
how anxious he was to hear from her.
That was the last Riggs ever saw OF
the stranger.
Gets Letter From Daughter.
But the joking remark had its real
ties for this same real estate man, whom
Riggs does not know had business in
Union last May. and there, in some
way, happened TO hear of Miss Riggs,
who was then working IN the office of
her stepfather's creamery. Miss Riggs
wrote her father. telling of the circum-
stance of meeting the stranger and
hearing his story of her father. The
father and daughter have cores pended
1 regularly since the first letter in May,
1 and Mr.. Riggs has taken the first OPP
I portunity possible to leave his business
/ and come to this city TO see his daugh-
4 ter.
Mr.. Riggs married again a few years
after the separation from his first wife,
and has a son IA years old.