The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-06-06

Louise. years old: Bertha, years old, and Charles, years old-to see their father.
 When she returned she told that Mon sieur and Monsieur's mother had taken them out for a walk and luncheon"
 Since that day Madame Sourdillon has never seen her children; Monsieur Sour dillons mother, an old woman of 79 years, had disappeared with them as complete ly as If the earth had opened and swal- lowed them up.
 The grief crazed mother at once began search for the missing children and the old woman, which rivals the detective stories of fiction and the last chapter of which she hopes to be able to write with tears of joy through the intervention and aid of the American newspapers. There was trace of my husband and children writes Madame Sourdillon. but l began by making an appeal to the French Government authorities. The Police of Paris promised to undertake the investigation at once. A warrant was issued for my husband on the charge of failure to return the children as the court had ordered"
 The efforts to find the fugitives proved futile and then Madame Sourdllon began a systematic search on her own account
 "I appealed, systematically she writes, Ito the French Consuls and Diplomatic Authorities throughout England and America l rushed to England, knowing that my husband could speak the same language and had friends in London and other places. l found no trace of him and returned to live with my mother. At last news came through the French Gov ernment and the cooperation of the English authorities. My husband was traced to England, My hopes rose. They told me he would soon be arersted. Quickly followed bad news. Before they could act he had fled"
 Through the French consuls he was traced to America, to San Francisco, and honce more l began to HOPE. That was in l90S."
 The pathos of Madame Sourdillon's grief and mother love, her pitiful re- search for her lost children, forms a story that will appeal to every heart no matter how hardened,
 The letters she has sent to the various Consuls asking that they be delivered to her daughter Louise, should she be found, full of mothers love and a mothers pleading, are heart rending in their earnestness and devotion-but the Consus, while sympathetic and untiring in their efforts, have never been able to deliver the messages sent by the grief stricken woman.
 '1 am sure," says the mother, that Louise my eldest daughter remembers me, even If 1t is ever so slightly. Now that she is IS she must often wonder what has become of her mother. The little tots were too young when they were stolen from me to remember long"
 A recent letter from Madame Sourdillon to Mrs. Hagerdorn says:
 T wrote to you lately about the cam paign Press I hoped to obtain over the United States but unfortunately they wrote in the first article which appeared In the World that it is sure Monsieur Sourdillon is in the West-in New Or leans or New York This prevented other newspapers to associate in the research. So, l write again today, as you so kindly interested yourself in my sad case, to ask if you would give to some papers in Nir- ginia the copy of the World and the photographs. I hope the Southern pa pers will be willing to start the research for me, and that others may follow. It is of great importance that the photo graphs be published, on recognizing them. my eldest daughter. Louise. may realize she is the young girl looked for, and her sister and brother. How great is my unlucx that such an information comes after the publicity I wished, and in which had put so much hope. feel rather discouraged Please do your best to help me. and be sure I will feel most grateful to you. With kindest regards and love, yours sincerely,
 "B. sOURDILLoN." | Besides Mrs Hagerdorn's keen interest | in the story, Dr. William F. Trent of l Columbia. a warm personal friend of Madame Sourdillons, has actively con- cerned himself in the research for the missing children. and the newspapers coald do no better work than through their medium to help the heart broken | mother to find the children so dear to her heart.
 
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