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Show c- HUNTING FOR BOY'S FATHER. Adopted Child Burden to Foster Mother Mo-ther Who Searches for His Sire. CHICAGO, Nov. 28. Unable longer lo bear the burden of'supptfr.t'infc a boy .she' adopted seventeen yeurs ago and. leurn-ing leurn-ing that his father Is wealthy and prominent prom-inent in the social world. Mia. Emma Lowe, a nurse, residing nt 274 Wells street, la attempting' lo locate him In the hope that he will lisslst hla son. The boy .'was brought to the home of Mrs. Lowe in Toronto, Canada, one wintry win-try night seventeen years ago this month, by a lull, handsome young man with blonde hair and mustache, and a heavily veiled woman, dressed completely com-pletely in black, and left In her care with a ?50 note and a promise of more at frequent intervals. The man's name was George Charles Charlton, said to be thc.son of a wealthy resident of London, Canada. . Never having heard of him again and,, as the child had gradually endeared hims?olf to both herself and her husband, Mrs Lowe did not attempt to locate him until her husband mat -with -buPi-neas reverses. He has now been- an inmate in-mate of an Insane asylum for ilye years. "1 have traced the boy's father to Chicago," Chi-cago," asserted Mrs. Lowe. "He Is able to care for the boy, and eliould do no. The story woven around the life of Albert Al-bert Edward CJiarlton Lpwe. as the boy was christened by his foster-mother, la ay romantic us ever penned by a notion writer. '. . Just Bcvcnleen years agq, November n' 18S7 lu Toronto. Canada, Mr..v, Emma Em-ma Lowe, a professional nurse, whose husband was a high wlttrled employee Jn a wholesale house In that city, wao aroused from her slumber at her home, 8G Mutual street about? midnight by a visit from a strange man, accompanied bv a heavily-veiled woman, dressed--in black who bore In her arms an infant acurcely three weeks old: J |