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12 THE SAN FRANOCISCO CALL, SATURDAY, APRIL 16, 1893. FOUND HIS WIFE IN A LONELY FARMHOUSE Terrible Experiences of Mrs. Abducted Twice in One Year. She Is the Daughter| of the Late Alvan G. Clark. Is Heiress to a Fortune That Others Wish to Secure. Taken From Her Home in Bos- ton to a Ranch in Glenn County. TRACED ACROSS THE CONTINENT. A Real Life Melodrama That Ends To-Day in the Happy Reunion of Husband and Wife. Within the proszic confines of the court of the Palace Hotel there will be enacted to-d. the closing scen2 in a real-life melod a, the principal character of which is a young, hand- some and wealthy woman, the daughter of a man who name is known honored in eve the known wc v Hollander. | tiful bride is the final Incident in a series of events sufficiently strange and | thrilling to touch the most hardened heart. All doubts and uncertainties will be for the moment blotted out by this happy reunion among strangers, in a strange city, thousands of miles from home and friends. Scarcely more than a year ago Sum- ner Hollander, then a young college stu- dent, and Miss Clark, who was one of whose identity is only whispered by the | the petted belles of Cambridge soclety, fear-stricken wife. Torn by doubt and | met and fell in love with each other. uncertainty her young husband has| With the impulsiveness of youth they | spent weary weeks and months in | searching the highways and byways of | secret and be decided elopement rather than upon an marriage SUMNER RUSH HOLLANDER. The son of a wealthy Boston merchant, who has twice, during the first year of his married life, had his wife torn from his arms and has twice rezained her after spending a fortune in the search that has extended from ocean to ocean. ATTORNEY WALTER S. SHERMAN. Mr. Sherman is the legal adviser of Sumn:r Hollander and came with him from Boston to the Pacific Coast to aid in the search for his voung client’s wife. For the second time within a year— the first year of her married life, this | young woman will be to-day clasped | in the arms of her husband after a sep- | aration forced upon her by persons| whose motives cannot be fathomed and { B ADVERTISEMEN "S. FAGE HUMORS Pimples, blotches, blackheads, rad, rough, oily, mothy skin, itching, scaly scalp, dry, thin, and falling hair, and baby blemishes prevented by CuTicURA SoAP, tho most effective ékin purifying and beautifyin, 80ap in the world, as well as purest an sweetest for toilet, bath, and nursery. (Uticura Boar is %00 throughout the world. Cume, Conr., Soia Props., Boston, U. 8. A. T *How 1o Prevent Face Hosmors, miliad fre. Porrex Dnce axp EVERY HUMOR ™oz s half a continent; has doggedly pursued the quest from ocean to ocean and has expended a fortune in the hire of the best detectives in the land to continue the search that ended two days 4go at a tumble-down farm house on a wind-swept ranch in the foothills of Glenn County. Such is a brief outline of a tragie ro- mance in real life that has no equal in the works of modern fiction. The name of the central figure in the woncerful succession of events is, or rather was, Miss F. G. Clack. She is the youngest daughter of the late Alvan G. Clark, the celebrated astronomer and lens maker of Cambridge, Mass., who reared for himself in California an en- during monument in the lens of the great Lick telescope. Her husband is Sumner R. Hollander, the son of one of the wealthiest and most highly re- | spected familles in the State of Mas- sachusetts. By the terms of her father’s will Mrs. Hollander is an heiress in her own right to a fortune of a quarter of a million dollars. If the solemn as- | sertions of the young couple are to be believed this munificent bequest, dic- tated by paternal love, is the chief fac- tor in the sorrow and danger that has seared and blackened the first year of their married life, The sequel s yet to be learned, but the meeting that will occur to-day be- tween the young husbaud and his beay. subjected to the delay Incident| to the formality of securing pa- rental consent to their union. To conceive was to act, and with happy | disregard for future consequences the young couple repaired to a near-by vil- | lage and were married by a minister who was sufficiently discreet not to ask unpleasant questions. For three months the marriage was kept a profound secret, then the young couple braved parental wrath and gave their secret to the world. Having re- ceived the forgiveness of their parents and the congratulations of their friends the happy husband and wife settled | down to the enjoyment of a life un- | curred adowed by any warning of future rrow. For three weeks they lived in happy contentment. Then came the | death of the bride’s father, Alvan G. Clark, an event that was heralded in the press of two continents. This oc- on June 9, 1897, a date that marked the turning point in the cur- rent of two lives. Since that time hap- piness has been a stranger to the Hol- lander household. Alvan Clark died a wealthy man. ‘When his will was read it was found that he had made a small bequest to one of his two older daughters. The other he disinherited. To Mrs. Hollan- der, his youngest and favorite daugh- ter, he bequeathed $20,000 outright, be- sldes the sum of $200,000 to be held in trust for her for a period of ten years, at the expiration of which period the money was to be hers unconditionally. By a provision of the will it was stipu- lated that if Mrs. Hollander died with- out issue before the expiration of the ten-year period the money was to re- vert to the two remaining sisters, share and share alike. It is claimed by both Mr. and Mrs. Hollander that as soon as the provis- | ions of the will became known the two elder sisters, both of whom are married, | manifested a deep and absorbing inter- | est in the welfare of Mrs. Hollander. The husband and wife go still further than this and charge the two older sis- ters and their husbands with being di- rectly responsible for all that has since occurred in the succession of startling, almost tragic, events now to be so hap- pily terminated. As already stated these events began with the death of Alvin Clark and the reading of his will. At this time Mrs. Hollander was happy in the hope that before the end of the year she would present her husband with a living pledge of her love and devotion, and an heir to the fortune willed to her in trust by her father. This hope was blasted by means that may only be hinted at here. For weeks the young wife's life was despaired of, and it was only by the most careful nursing and the atten- tion of the most skilled physicians that she was dragged back to life from the brink of the grave. Then one day be- fore Mrs. Hollander had yet recovered her health and strength her husband returned home to find that his wife had disappeared, leaving no trace behind. From the homes of friends and acquaintances the search for her was extended to surrounding towns and citles, but all to no purpose. The young wife had disappeared as com- pletely as if the earth had swallowed her.. Her husband, crazed with grief and anxlety, was not to be comforted. His father, whose heart had been won by the young wife’s charming personality #pd wha lgoked upon her ¢4 ope of Big| ylew of the case It now, seexs to me ¢ |lander from her husband to take her own children, placed his fortune at the disposal of his sen in pursulng the | search for the missing wife. The best | detectives in Boston and New York were employed to aid in the quest, they | being ordered to proceed with the ut- most secrecy and discretion. After weary weeks of suspense, of ! unfruitful clews and false alarms came news that gladdened the hearts of the | young husband and the members of his family. The wife had been found. She | had been found, but not as had been | supposed, 1n some place of involuntary | detention in one of the great citles of | the East, but in a lonely farm house | that forms a minute dot on the Hmit- less expanse of the prairfes of North | Dakota, far from the haunts of civ- {lization. Three days after this intelligence was | flashed over the wires to the home in Boston husband and wife were clasped |in each other's arms in the dingy |llving room of the weather-beaten | farmhouse, the detectives standing | Buard to see that no unfriendly hand or voice marred the momentary hap- piness of the reunion.. The explana- tions that followed will be told fur-: ther along in the words of Mr. Hollan- der himself. A happy home coming followed this Joyous meeting on the bleak reaches of the Dakota prairie. Then came a brief period of comparative tranquillity that was marred only by the thought that the young wife might in some way be made to suffer again by the people who were held to be responsible for what had gone before. Three months passed and the young wife was again made happy by the hope of approaching maternity. Agaln were these hopes dashed to the ground by the same agency that had before robbed her of her desire to be- come a mother. Again was her life despaired of and again did the skill of | the physicians triumph. A long period | of convalescence followed, and Mr. | Hollander, made happy by the thought that his wife had been restored to him, and that death had for a second time | been robbed of a victim, resumed his business occupations. On the second day of last month Mr. Hollander was called away from home | for forty-eight hours on a business trip. When he returned he found his wife gone and his home deserted. As before, no trace of her whereabouts had been left behind, no note of explan- ation and no message to relieve the agonizing uncertainty as to what fate | had overtaken the missing woman. corded. serving work. building. It is an entirely new plan of 56. Acting upon the knowledge gained by | former experience Mr. Hollander called | in the services of detectives and set | about a systematic search that was| destined to meet with success. After several weeks a clew was found and | the missing wife was trailed across the} continent to California. The detectives | found Mrs. Hollander at a ranch house | owned by a family named Nye in the | foothills of Glenn County, fourteen miles from the little town of Willows. The telegraph conveyed this informa- tion to the anxious husband, who at once started for the Pacific Coast as| fast as steam could carry him. He was | accompanied by his attorney, Walter | 8. Sherman. They went direct to Wil- | lows, where they hired a team and | drove to the ranch house. There dis- appointment awaited them. It appears | that notice of their coming had been | telegraphed from Boston by spies who | had been detailed to watch the move- ments of the husband. This warning | had been given in time to enable those | who were seeking to keep Mrs. HOI- | from the farm house to another hiding place. Disappointed and almost disheart- ened, Mr. Hollander and his attorney came on to this clty and took up their | residence at the Palace Hotel. They | reached Willows April 7 and found | that Mrs. Hollander had been taken | away from the ranch on April 5. They | reached this city April 8. Arrlvmg{ here there was nothing left for them to do but to await the time when the new hiding-place of' the unhappy wife should be discovered. This was ac- complished last Thursday afternoon. Precautions necessary to prevent a re- currence of the defeat and disappoint- ment that was met with upon the ar- rival of the rescuing party at Willows | caused a delay of 36 hours before Mr. Hollander was notified that the time had arrived when he could greet the wife who had been so cruelly separated from him for a perlod of almost two months. Not until this meeting takes | place to-day will they feel themselves free for a time at least from the dan- gers that seem to surround them. “This is the second attempt that has been made to take my wife from me by force and violence,” said Mr. Holland- | er yesterday, “and if there is any law or justice in the land it shall be the last. Both attempts were so nearly successful that I shudder to think of the fate that would probably have overtaken the dear little woman had it not been my good fortune to find and rescue her. “Even to me, who have undergone tortures of body and mind sufficlently terrible to make me alive to the real- ity of what has happened, the whole thing seems like a horrible dream or the fancy of a diseased mind. It does not seem possible that in this enlight- ened age there are people who would not hesitate to do what has been done to me and mine for the purpose of ac- quiring possession of a few paltry dol- lars. “Think of it. A woman twice stolen and taken thousands of miles away and placed in an obscure hiding place; twice’ subjected to physical treatment that all but ended in death and result- ed in the sacrifice of two innocent lives. It is terrible, wrong and inhuman, yet I doubt if it be possible to bring about the punishment of the persons I know to be guilty of these brutal and crim- inal acts. T do not know what to do or where to turn. It seems that I am una- ble to protect my own wife from those who would be benefited by any evil that might be done her. “The first time she was taken away from me I almost lost my reason, be- cause I was afrald that she had been murdered and her body either concealed or destroyed. After weeks of the most terrible suspense I found her in Dakota. She had suffered as much as I, because she had not been per- mitted to communicate with me or with any one else. She told me as she has told my attorneys and will tell you that her sisters and their husbands are responsible for all that has hap- pened to her. I know that all that teenth. This was-a two-story frame protected and provided for The dir D. O. Crowley, James R. Kelly, Matt T. P. Riordan. as a great charitable institution has on the face of the globe. 000000000000 000000000000000000 C00000000000000000000C0C000CCCCOCO00CCOOCOCOCO0OC000000 The reverend director has a new scheme for ralsing funds, and it seems to be popular and successful. He has had printed a number of pasteboard books, In this manner the friends of the home expect to realize as many b cent pleces as there are bricks in the new The location of the new building is at Nineteenth and Angelic One of the fine features of the building is a rotunda entrance supported by columns and surmounted by a handsome dome with a striking clock. *ecreation halls will be fitted up in the most modern style. Eleven years ago the Youths’' Directory procured its first permanent home on During this period of eleven years the directory has passed' through its portals 5500 boys, who have been vithout care or cost to State or county. has been such as to necessitate more room. Hence the new building in a larger lot of ground. ctory was incorporated in 1887. The late Joseph A. Donohoe, Alex H. Loughborough and Henry Barroilhet were also members of the board of directors up to the time of death. - It has been mainly through the untiring zeal and capable management of Father thusiastic believer in the maxim that ‘‘prevention is better than cure.” money in housing, educating and training the unprotected waifs and orphan boys of the may grow up good, law-abiding citizens, than to neglect them and allow them to become criminals the directory are open at all hours of the day and night to the juvenile victims of poverty and v by the most broad cosmopolitanism, and has numbered among its inmates representatives of A NEW HOME FOR DEPENDENT BOYS. Youths' Directory Will Be Open to Unfortunates of All Creeds. TGP VIEW OF THE NEW YOUTHS DIRECTORY. Contracts for the new Youths’ Directory to replace the building on Howard street have been signed and re- The institution will be handsome and imposing, and its doors will be open good, round sum, most of which the Rev. F. Crowley expects to raise among the numerous friends of this de- to all creeds. It will cost a each page of which represents twenty bricks, sold at § cents each. of financiering, and it is likely to work well. streets, with a frontage of 146 feet and a depth It will have accommodations for 125 boys. The dormitories, lavatories and Howard street, near Seven- building, which soon proved inadequate. Of late the increase of applicants for admission The present board of directors are: The Most Rev. Archbishop, Father I. Sullivan, Thomas R. Bannerman, Dr. J. F. Gibbon, Dr. Joseph Oliver and Crowley that the directory pless and unprotected waifs. He is an en- He believes it is better to spend time and , to the end that they The doors of It is marked every people accomplished so much good for h almost COCOOOCO00000000000000000000000 be a case of life or death, and I shall act accordingly.” Mrs. Hollander is but 22 years old, yet she is said to be broken in both health and spirit by the terrible ex- periences she has undergone. Attorney Sherman also corroborates the full details of the story as related by the young husband and adds many | things which have not and cannot be told here. There is one chapter in the history of the Clark family that has an inti- mate connection with the events of the past year that have been briefly told in the foregoing story. One of Mrs. Hol- lander’s sisters was disinherited by the terms of her father's will. She is Mrs. Richard Grogan Jr. Richard Grogan is the son of the pro- prietor of the livery stable where the horses of the Clark family were kept. By reason of this fact Miss Clark was occasionally called upon to enter into conversation with the stableman’s son. She fell in love with him and they eloped and were married. For this her father rever forgave her, a fact that was made manifest by his omitting to provide for her in his will. The other sister was also so unfortunate as not to please her father in her selection of a husband as well as in other mat- ters that antedated her nuptials. Tt was because of these things that Al- vin Clark left the bulk of his valuable éstate to his youngest daughter, now Mrs. Hollander. —— The best lead pencil in the world is the *“Koh-I-Noor.” Try it. . Hermann Oelrichs Here. Herman Oelrichs arrived in the city last night on the overland from New York. He comes on some private busi- | ness matters and will remain for three or four weeks before returning to his | home. When seen last night Mr. Oel- richs said that he knew nothing what- ever of the alleged discovery of the pa- pers in the Fair will case, and that the rst he had heard of the matter was when he read of it in a paper he secured at Sacramento. Mrs. Oelrichs has gone to Europe, accompanied by Miss Fair ADVERTISEMENTS. CONSULTING A WOMAN. Mrs. Pinkham’s Advice Inspires Confidence and Hope. Examination by a male physician is a hard trial to a delicately organized woman. and her two children, and will probably | = ¢ : Femain abroad severai months. The con| She puts it off as long as she dare, dition_of her eyesight has much 1m-| and is only driven to it by fear of can- proved and her Husband has hopes of her | cer, polypus, or some dreadful ill. uch a woman leaves a physician’s office where she has un- complete recovery before long. K Mr. Oel- richs refused to discuss the Cuban situ- ation for publication further than to say that, in his opinion, the matter would be settled without a resort to arms. —_——— Remembered the Nurses. Mrs. Schuller, who was shot by her husband and lay in the Harbor Hospital for two weeks, took a pleasing method of showing her appreciation of the care she recelved at the hands of the nurses examination with animpression,more or less, of discour- agement. at that Institution, yesterday, when she . This condi- appeared there with tw;: gold mfdals. tion of the which she presented to the two matrons. i On one side of each of the medals was minddestroys inscribed a sentiment of thanks and on the effect of the other side the name of one of the advice; and ladles who gave her the attention which was mainly responsible tor her recovery. she grows / worse rather than better. In consulting Mrs. Pink- ham no hesitation need be felt, the story is told to a woman and is wholly confidential. Mrs. Pinkham® address is Lynn, Mass., she offers sick women her advice without charge. Her intimate knowledge of women’s troubles makes her letter of advice a wellspring of hope, and her wide experi- The Crowd Goes to El Campo every Sunday. The re- sort opened for the season last Sunday, and the attendance was large, but hardly noticeable on account of the extent of the grounds and the ample steamer ac- commodations. There’s no othér place like El Campo—sunny and warm and windless, besides it's inexpensive andy near to San Francisco. Take the big steamer Ukiah; four round trips at con- venlent hours. ence and skill point the way to health. DEATH OF I suffered with ovarian trouble for seven years, and no doctor knew what was the matter with me. Ihad spells which would last for two days ormore. I thought I would try Lydia E. Pink- ham’s Vegetable Comvound. I have taken seven bottles of it, apd am en- tirely cured.”—Mgs. JouN FOREMAN, 26 N. Woodberry Ave., Baltimore, Md. The above letter from Mrs. Foreman is only one of thousands. R B. H. PAUL’S NEWLY ARRIVED COLLECTION, ANTIQUE, RARE AND FINE RUGS before his departure to aska, WILL BE CLOSED OUT AT UNRESERVED AUGTION COMMENCING DAILY AT 2 P. M., At 106-10 Grent ave., between Tost and Geary. As every rug will be sold out regardless of cost, a life-time chance to buy genuine goods t your own prices. s P . E. CLARK, Auctioneer. ———— TURKISH PERSIAN vith his last stock, ‘With his . 0000000000000 00000 O rHE PALACE ANDO o " eeie DR. STOUT. she has been able to gath a knowl-| + Dr. Arthur B. Stout, one of the oldest physicians of this cit. [ HOTELSO© : 7 v, died at 4 ~LS edge of during the period of her mis- | + St. Luke's Hospital on last Thursday. The déceased was 84 years of age + |© GR AN D R s but a small portion of the scheme = steamship California, which was the 4 SR e R A 4 that has been pll;nned. My :ttorneys 4 first steam vessel to round the Horn with passengers for the gold flelds in 4 g 1400 Roorgs 900 With Bath Atgched. S 4 1845. He practiced medicine here for many years, 'and was widely known < ALL UNDER ONE MANAGEMENT (4] know it, also, and we have evidence | 4 among the older San Franciscans. The weight of s A i s nAta e 4 LO NOTE THE PRICES: o that may enable us to bring the guilty | 4 him, and for the past fiye years he has. b P roepie ©; Furcpetn Pl B1.00 per day ad npwad arti ithi : as been at St. Luke's Hospital. His + Anterican Plan.$3, 00 per day and upward partles within the reach of the law.| 4 funeral will take place to-day from Ploneer Hall at 1 o’clock. + |0 Correkpondenics: Soticited. Q Reluctant as 1 am to accept such a| + + |© 30BN 0. KIREPATRICK, Mamger. g 08 oltttttttttttttttbttttttte+4444444+++ (00000000C00C000C00Q