Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — A WOMAN'S TIRELESS SEARCH. [ARTICLE]

A WOMAN'S TIRELESS SEARCH.

knit* la the Finding ot Her Hw InumA Living Mae life of a Hermit ' Fifteen years ago A. B. Conway, a ■prosperous merchant of Jersey Oity, Eeappeared, leaving a wife and one feiio, a boy T years old. For a year Bq painaing man was searched for. Ecsge rewards were offered and the beat detectives employed. But their pfforts were in veto, and finally the Etduslon was arrived at that he had m murdered or had killed himself, t his wife would not hearken to any frn».h explanation and announced her tftentlon of continuing the search, from Maine to California and fr jm, fee gulf to the great lakes, the loving Woman, acoompanl-ed by her son, journayed, seeking the absent husband and nether. Many clews were followed, <>f them very promising, and ! ghrough this all her hope never waitoted. last week her search was rewarded. 14t Jacksonville, Fla., she obtained a pflew. She learned that a strange man pud years before settled upon a small peninsula fronting on a town called New Smyrna and that his habits had earned for him the name of hermit. JPo had always dwelt In a miserable put and was seldom seen. Mrs. Oonnray, her son and two Jersey Oity clergyman went to the cottage of the herOitt As the party entered, the hermit wag standing with his back to the door, gnartpg at a portrait of Mrs. Conway, As she appeared when a bride. Mrs. poo way save a little cry, the hermit Earned and In a moment the long-sep-gfstsd husband and wife were clasped fca each other’s arms. In explanation of his strange conjgoot Conway said that at the time he disappeared he was troubled about business. The thought of bankruptcy erased him, and he left Jersey City, hardly knowing what he was doing, and wandered to Florida. It was a rx before his mind became clear and realized what he bad done. Then, ashamed to return, he continued tc lead a hermit-like existence until it was ended by the arrival of his wife.