The evening world., 1911-03-22
BABY KIDNAPPED
50 YEARS AGO MAY
Be A PRINCESS
nv Clue Gives Hope to Mrs.
Cnumbe Of Clearing Up
Birth Mystery.
LEFT WITH NEGROES.
"kste JackSon'S" Personal
Directs Count" to Her
Address.
EFT WITH NEGROES.

- 0ystery that shrovds shs early
~ q Ma ysAis Coumbs Of No Il
- lfArArs place. a nySsry tina for
nss Than thirty ysArs Mrs Coumoe
- t1sd without avail 10 pierce. may
- MED sosn. II N Advertisement re-
oeoey Appearing n New York 10 sen
~. Thb advertisement would indi-
eaes that some person who has knowl-
- a Ma O0umos's birth ana early
la0-aAnss about which Mrs. Coumbs
Nnows nothtnG-4s anxious now to have
M. Csumbs learn OF her parsntsse.
ma Cosmbs believes she was KID
naOpsd when . baby. and that the peo-
- who stole her were well paid TO
haU her identity hidden. She thinks
- = . Cuban. Ind believes she 10 of
s9ssh shs has been able to learn almost
nSsR1nS suthsnuo shout herself.
NJ ouH thing IN her possession that
~ soms day hsip her 10 prove who
- II y An Old fashioned silver spoon
Msksd WITH the initials II. D." or ~.
=" N script. The spoon bears marks
- theush Il had been used a. q child's
tessh1nS spoon. and Mrs. Coumbe says
10 was siwsn her when she was . very
noAs grl by an old muiatto woman
~ o.rsd for her and who told her
tAsn that At some future nm the spoon
v&ADkH Aw&sAllsh har :. =
Jasents.
Personal for Count"
Ths Advertisement which appeared re-
SaDtiy and which revived the story OF
~. coumes's search for q name and
parsnts. read:
-. sScr &. Princes. b - C.f5,.' =, ~ Il & snt M. .sA:
49,; New York ] decdvei You yesr. Regret.
RATE JACKSON"
NM. ooumbe lives at No. - ST. Marks
place. but h knows Of no Princess pes
Csrtss. nor can she identify the Count
20 whom the Advertisement 10 ad-
dressed.
Mrs. Coumbe's inquiries lead her to be-
hove that she vas kidnapped from her
parents In cuba during the Ten Years
VA. Two years ago an advertisement
h inserted. asking information about
herself. started a correspondence with
an aged woman In Key West. Fla a
Mrs. Harvey. In one OF her letters
Mrs. Harvey suggested that Mrs
coumbe look up the newspaper &C
ccunts OF a wedding celebrated at Grace
Church in New York In the early SIX
tiso. which for It's ma gnincence wa $
known a sthe Diamond Wedding"
Was Diamond Wedding"
In 1853 Senior Don Estaban Santa Cruz
De Oviedo. a wealthy Cuban planter
m married to Miss Frances Amelia
Bartlett, who lived at that time at No,
~ wea Fourteenth street. This we'd
ding was known as the Diamond We'd
ding owing 10 the splendid jewels given
the BRIDE by her husband. Mrs. Harvey,
- her letter. said that tho bride and
bridegroom at the Diamond Wedding
wsrs Mrs. Coumbe's parents.
M. Coumbte's early recollection 4.
Of nvtnS in Key West. Fla, In charge
q . negro family named Ferguson. She
~ foid that her parents lived In Cuba
and that she had been brought TO Key
West IN a fshinS smack after belns
]o1oappsd. shs was adopted by a span.
- family named Fflsna. and It wa,
Rsportsd that these people war. well
IA 70 rare for her. Uou,.v.r OH. NO.
=. n.ah 5000 ,,,, ~.
- r".a """S
-. c.N"o so"'e Yeas mar
~ '" w. Nouhoe' an hhsHsI
wsatE.
IeHs Her strange Career.
Nrs. Coumbs Ia "A tail. dark woms,
ABOUT forty years old. Her MAJ, .
black and straight now. hui sba ho
fcsris as n baby. All nor earliest Uau,