The Springdale news., 1912-08-23
HEIRESS IN SPRINGDALE.
Was Working as Domestic at Arcade
Hotel

Hi96 IItI1fS ago. MI .. - VI A4SAA us Schaeffer, aged 52, was in Little Rock in dire poverty, begging Hu- mane Officer W NJ. Rankin to pro- cure work for her Now she is be- ing sought in order that she may be given an inheritance of Slo,o00 and cannot be found
 The money is the result of the be- quest in the will of Mrs Caroline Cloth, a wealthy Memphis woman and relative of Mrs Sehaeffer. Miss Alma Clark, a charitable work CT of Memphis, is now in Little Rock in search of the missing wom- an. Miss Clark had often befriend- ed Mrs. Schaeffer in her poverty. She was also an intimate friend of Mrs Cloth and when she learned Of the bequest 10 the unfortunate NO man, Miss Clark started out in search of her.
 Since leaving Little Rock about two months ago, Mrs Schaeffer ap- pears to have dropped out of sight. A dispatch to the Gazette from Houston, Tex, stated that Mrs Schaeffer had been located al Bat on Rouge, La Miss Clark said last night that she did not believe that the dispatch was correct, and added that she had reason 10 be lieve that the missing heirezs is now in a small town in Arkansas, the name of which she declined to reveal
 When Mrs. Sehaeffer arrived in Little Rock she asked Humane Offi- cer Rankin 1. obtain employment for her NIT. Rankin did SC. but Mrs Sehaeffer was rather eccentric and had difficulty in holding the positions obtained for her She finally yabeeame discouraged over re- peatedly losing places and left town That was the last seen or heard from her in Little Rock
 The dispatch rom Hoaston=to# the Gazette stated that Mrs Sehaeff- .er's aged mother, Mrs George Hen egan. and brother George Hene- gan, Hxe in taat eity=ft satd=that when they located Mrs sehaeffer in Baton Rouge. t was the first time they had heard from her four years
 According 10 the Houston dispatch, Mrs Sehaeffer was married 2o years ago to George Schaeffer maehin- ist. They had one child 4 few years after their marriage, f k sad, sehaeffer left ole day and failed to come back He has ney- CT been heard from since and his wife does not know if he is alive
 Her mother who lives in Houston is so years old and an invalid Her brother is d teamster-L. R Ga zette, l4th inst
 When Mrs Reyburn Peay of John son read the above in Wednesday s Little Rock Gazette. she 'phoned to Springdale calling attention to the article and staing that Mrs Sehaef- fer was at this plaoe. Investigation disclosed the fact that she was em- ployed as a domestic al the Arcade Hotel. and the first news she had of her good fortune was when shown the above article in the Ga zette She immediately wired her whereabouts to Miss Clark at Little Rock, and also forwarded a power of attorney To ]. ! Williams, Jr ', an attorney at Memphis, Tenn, who will look after her interests in the collection Of the inheritance
 Mrs Schaeffer has been in this section for about three months. and was employed for time at the home of Reyburn Peay, west of Johnson Later she came to Spring dale and stopped for few days at the home of Rev B. F Lively, and working wherever she could secure employment. She tells The News that she had 22 cents when she landed in Springdale She says she has one son living in New York, and that her husband and father, both of whom are dead, were Mas ons
 Mrs. Schaeffer expects to go to Memphis soon, but says she intends to invest a portion of her fortune in a fruit farm in this section and that she will establish a home for homeless women in Little Rock She asks The News to warn fort une hunters to stay away from her, as she doesn't want to marry. Since receiving news of her good fortune Hotel and rented a room near the Adventist Church
 
 B. Vinson went down to Van Buren Wednesday night to rejoin