Evening star., 1927-11-16
fORbUSH DECLARES
GOD AIDED SEARCH
Says MerCifuI Providence Led
Boy. to Lonely Shack
Where Wife Was.
BY s. II. McCULLOCH,
Staff Correspondent of The Star

BALTIMORE, Md, November 10
ills faith in God never shaken during
- days of frantic searching for hi:
wife. Mrs. Anne Ramsey Forbush
found Sunday near Claremont, \. IL.
after her disappearance from Keith s
Theater. Washington. october 10
Rev. Dascomb T.. Forbush this morn
ing expressed The conviction that a
marciful Providence guided the loot
s.cps of the schoolboy who found her
slaoring on a bed of leaves in a lonely
sfrck.
Mrs Forbush is a patient in pri-
yata Saniiarium here, and Rev. MY.
To,i,Ieh conferred for 3 hours TINS
morning with specialists. who VIII en-
,loqvor 10 cure permanently the
strange mental obsession which
cau>c,I her to leave her family inn
h,od hv tho false belief that she was
unworthy of them
Physical Condition Good.
She PASSED n res.ful night and,
although she is tired in body and III
mind. her physical condition is re-
eardcd as remarkable, considering the
fact that she went for more than
three weeks with no nourishment eN-
cppt q milk shake and was sleeping IN
the open and roaming the New Iiamp-
shire hills through the greatest storm
New England has had in 5S years,
rev. Mr.. Forhush said that Mrs. For
bush seemed entirely unconscious of
.th" : orm.
'Sha was guarded by Il divinity
he said. land l cannot hut feel that
the PRAYERS Of thousands of persons
of all faiths had a great deal to do
with finding her. Had she remained
out-of-loors two days longer l do not
think she would have been found alive.
We had Just about given up hope and
the searching party of 100 men was
to have been Withdrawn the next day.
Denies Find Was "Chance."
'"rhe high school boy, Stephen Van
slot. who was looking for lost dog
a,,d entered the shack Where she was
sleeping was not guided by chance.
Things like that don't just happen,
hut are directed by Il Power, call that
force what Nou Will.
Mrs. Forbush arrived here at $50
O'Clock last night and went to the
home OF Bliss Forbush, her brother-in-
iaW before being taken to the Sanltar-
ium she came here in her husband 5
rar ana il was the first car to so from
ayhite River Junction to Rutland. VT.
since the food 1t took five hours TO
go ever the 70-mile stretch. She was
accompanied by her husband and by
Air. and Mrs Clifford A. Parmenter of
Rochester, y. \.
l3 Is Lucky Number.
: Mrs Parmenter was roommate of
Mrs. Forbush. then Anne Ramsey.
during her school days at Oheriin,
Where she first met her husband who
was star athlete there. While not
iinduly superStitutious during his foot
bal days. Rev. Mr.. Forbush wore the
number 13 on his jersey and has al
ways pretended that 13 is his lucky
number" He said that he is more
than ever sure of it since that it
was on the 18th day of this month that
the search for his wife came to
happy end, just as it looked as though
1t were to terminate in tragedy.
During the long ride TO this city,
Mrs. Forbush chatteda with Mrs. Par
rnenter concerning her. college days
and manifested a cheerfulneSs which
appeared to those who knew her well
to he forced. She desired to go to
Canandaigua. where her husband is
pastor of the First Congregational
Church, to be reunited with her four
children, but acceded with good grace
TO the suggestion of her husband that
she come here.
During the trip here she said that
she was not hungry, but when food
was placed before her her appetite
was unusually keen. The rigors of
her days In the woods have caused
her to lose 80 pounds and her feet are
had h1iCflFpd a. how
ever. Is in remarkably good condition.
. Rev. Mr.. Forbush said today that
he planned to preach at his church
at Cana ndaiglla Sunday. but will re.