Year: 1866

a Woman's Revenge.


From the M;lraukse Wisconsin,


! Some eight months ago a well dressed
! lady, in deep mourning, made her appearance


at the City Hall, and desired to see Mayor
| Tallmadge on business of Importance. She


was conducted into the Mayors Office, and


gave her name and address. She said she,
J her husband and one child had left the East
to locate in the West, but in Chicago her
husband suddenly died, and it required all
the money to bury him, and that she and her
child were now out upon the cold charities
of the world. She had no friends to whom
she could apply for aid, and she felt that she
could take care of herself, but feared for
her child, beautiful little girl of four years


of age. She solicited the aid of the Mayor
in getting the child into one of the orphan
homes in this city until she could secure a
home for it, which she believed she could
soon do, when she would take the child
paying the asylum for its trouble The


woman told her story IN such plaintiye tones,
and there appeared so much sorrow and
anguish about her, that the Mayor was
interested and told her to call the next
morning, bringing the child with her and
during the day he would see what could be
done


During the same day Mayor Tallmadge


succeeded in finding q family with no chill
dren of Its own, who desired TO adopt a
child, and the next morning, when the


woman called, bringing the child with her,
ne took her to the house.


| The mother appeared grateful that such a
home was found for her little one. She
| objected at first to parting with the child
| forever, apparently with much sincerity, but,
as the family would not take it under other
circumstances, she at length submitted, and
| embracing and kissing her child many times,


made the request that it should be called Ada
She then left, and since that time nothing
/ has been heard Of her The child, bright
/ little creature, soon bore the love and affec-
! tiOns of its adopted parents, as if it had
| been their own.


| A few days ago, detective from Chicago


was In this city, and said that little girl had
been stolen from its parents IN that city


months before under peculiar circumstances.
A woman claimed 70 have been deceived and
/ betrayed by the father of the child, and


when she was lost, cruelty deserted her
| and married another woman.


When her seducer's child had attained
the age that its parents loved it devotedly,
! she determined to strike them where the
| blow would be the most severely felt, and


watching her opportunity when the child
was out with its nurse, managed to take and
secrete it. From the nurses story the
| father feared the worst, and Immediately set
out with a detective IN pursuit. They
! tracked the woman and child to St Louis,


then to Cincinnati, to Louisville end to New
| Orleans, when ali traces were lost and the
/ father, nearly heart-brOken, returned home.
| The child was mourned as lost forever, it
being supposed that the woman In her mad
ness, had destroyed it. The mother of the
! child, however, could not be satisfied with
| the idea Some days ago she dreamed that


the child was alive and near her. She urged
/ her husband to further efforts, and he, more
to satisfy her tEan IN any belief that he


would succeed, renewed his searches. He
/ sent a we'll known detective O1t, with IN
] structiOns to leave no stone unturned to find


his lost child. With this view he came here.
While in conversation with the chief Of
| police, Beck, the case of which we have
/ spoken was mentioned.


! A description of the woman and The child


was given from memory, and the detective
/ felt that his labOrs were at an end. He at
once telegraphed to the parents Of the child,
! and they came to Milwaukee by the next
1 train. Upon going to the house, the mother
/ discovered the idol Of her heart, bat JOY
/ turned to despair when the child did not


recognize her, and could not be induced to
| 90 to her, and cried piteOusly whenever its
/ mother attempted to approach il This
I nearly DFOA6 the AlOJI6f , uS6EG olL0 Sd-eAS
/ fed the adopted parents that the child was
/ hers, and, sad as it was to part with the
/ little one they could not do otherwise The
/ child when taken away. cried itself into
/ spasms, refusing to be cOmforteG; but It was
/ taken to Chicago. Yesterday Mayor Tall
madge received letter from the parents Of
the child, saying that their darling had died
! from grief at being separated from those
/ whom It had learned 70 love better than its
own flesh and blood. It had, when reeOv-
| cred from spasms, settled down into a
! strange grief, moaning continually, and
/ calling for its mother. It refused to eat or


be comforted, and the day before yesterday
/ breathed its last