Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1896 — A WOMAN'S TIRELESS SEAROH. [ARTICLE]

A WOMAN'S TIRELESS SEAROH.

lotlß la Um Ntadtac of Her HaaWad Liviaar the XAJte at a Heraitt. Fifteen yetn ago A. B Ooawajr, a prosperous merchant of Jersey City, <ttMppeMed, leaving a wife and one child, a bey T year* okl. For a year Che m teeing mew was searched for. Large rewards were offered and the be* detectives employed. But their affoets were in vain, and finally the ceoelusfcm was arrived at that be had bees murdered or had killed himself. But Us wife would net hearken te any euch explanation and announced her Intention of continuing the search. From Maine to California and ?r>m the gulf to the great lakes, the loving woman, acoompankxl by her eon, jour neyed, seeking the absent husband and father. Many clews were followed, some of them very promising, and through this all her hope never wavered. Last weak her search was rewarded. At Jacksonville, Fla., she obtained a dew. She learned that a strange man had years before settled upon a small peninsula frosting on a town called Mew Smyrna and that .his habits had earned for trim the name of hermit. He bad always dwelt In a miserable hut and was seldom seen. Mrs. Conway, her son and two Jersey City clergymen went to the cottage of the her mtt As the party entered, the hermit was standing with hie back to the door, gazing at a portrait of Mrs. Conway, as she appeared when a bride. Mrs. Conway gave a little cry, the hermit turned and In a moment the long-sep-arated husband and wife were clasped in each other's arms. In explanation of his strange conduct Conway said that at the time he disappeared he was troubled about business. The thought of bankruptcy crazed him, and he left Jersey City, hardly knowing what he was doing, and wandered to Florida. It was a year before his mind became clear and he realized what he had done. Then, ashamed to return, he continued to lead a hermit-like existence until It was ended by the arrival of his wife.