Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 150, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1920 — SEEKING LOST MOTHER [ARTICLE]

SEEKING LOST MOTHER

Girl Stolen 22 Yeara Ago Making Effort to Locate Parent A three-year-old girl, stolen from her mother 22 years ago in New York by a woman from a circus and reared by her kidnapper without learning the circumstances of her birth, is now grown and married and has just learned her life story. In the hope of finding her parents she wrote a letter to the New York bureau of missing persons. The letter follows: “Dear Sir: I am writing you for a little help in trying to locate my sister and brother. lam the missing person, and it was around about 1898 I was taken away from my mother by a circus woman. “I have never seen my mother, sister or brother from that day to this. I have only just learned about myself through the girl who took care of me, but she can’t remember If my name is Wright or Knight “Now, if you can locate Charles Knight or Wright who has a missing sister, Susie, he ought to know. I had a sister, Pauline, also. I was known on the stage as Zella Earl up to five years ago, then I married.” The letter is signed by Mrs. William T. Pickard, of Tonawanda, N. Y.