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Show COMES II SEARCH OF LDIMG-LDSTDAUGHTER Woman Accused of Crime Here May Be Victim of Lost Memory CASE IS PECULIAR ONE Mrs Bell Bishop Sees Man Who Believes He Is Her Father G W B shop of Oros Cal 78 years of age sat n a room at the New ho se hotel yesterdaj d rectly oppos te Mrs Bell B shop arrested Tuesday Tlie man tried to llent fy the woman as his daughter and the womin attemptod to drive her memory back past the twelve-year twelve-year po nt where it was a blank to dentify the man as her father At the end of the interview the supposed father and daughter were almost sure hat the relat on ex sted but there are still many broken threads of Mrs B shop s 1 fp to be p eked up and n ade into a conne t ng li k Preceding the interview the pged man called upon act ng Capta n Chase at pol ce headquarters He asked wl ere he co Id f nd the B shop woman. Cap tain Chase sent Patrolmen W llev and Hendricks4n to the house at 514 South State street witl h m At the house the woman refused to recognize the old man without further ident fication Later in the day there was another meeting in the room of an attorney Mrs B shop it ib understood is still in touch with the man cla mmg to be her father and has invited him to call and see her again Woman Under Charges Mrs. B shop was arrested Tuesday by Patrolmen Hendnckson and Willev when she res sted the entry of the om cers to the rooms on South Utate street occup ed bv herself and ( W Davis who she says is her hnsband. Davis was arrested on a charge of having stolen several hundred dollars worth of automob le tires and Lccessones Hearing of the arrest G W Biehojp came at once to Salt Lake from his home in California, cro-npanying him is the town constable J W Brooks. A uiontl ago Mr Bishop had a circu lar prepared and sent broadcast bear ing his anghter i p cturc and the fol low g text M ss rdith Nettie B shop was born n Effingham coouty 111 bhe left her home a W ssert Oustr count eb in December 1903 She i. 34 vears ol 1 he ght about 5 feet nches. tar complexion light brown hair hazel eyes She was a school teacher when she left home ten vears ago Sho may now be a nurse n some hospital Sitting within a few feat of each other and in the presence of the worn an s attornev, the aged man and the woman who he hopes is his long Uwt daughter compared the data given on the circular Mrs Bishop or Davis is somewhat larger than the circular indicates bat the father admits that he may have been mistaken n the s ze Her eyes are hazel and Constable Brooks declared de-clared that the features were carried throughout the fam ly According to Dav s h s wife sustained a fall about twelve years ago and her memory has not been definite since that time Memory Is Truant Although Mrs. Bishop says that she does not remember ever hav ng been a school teacher Davis declares that he met her twelve years ago at a school teachers convention in Denver He then made a trip to Michigan Upon his return to Denver a short time after they were married Mrs Bishop or Davis says that Bhe was born in UighlandB Kv Sho does not however remember anything lator than twelve years ago and could not lo cate the town definitely Mr Bishop says that his wife was from Kentucky b t that she only ret rned there once, two years after their marriage and that the children did not accompany her Makes Explanation Expla n ng why ho gave the oane of B shop when arrested the woman said I have a 1 ttle boy at 1 ome He is 7 yearB old 1 1 ln't want the chil lren n school where ho attends to Know that 1 was under arrest lor that reason t gave the name of 11 si op althoigh I have my marriage 1 cense to prove my marr age to Mr Divis Today the aged father of the girl who he believes s ouco aga n in his sight will try to bridge the gap in her nemory to definitely eBtabl sh her llentlty The woman s out of ia 1 on $260 bonds It s cl arged that she flourished an automatic pistol whon the officers tr ed to enter her roo ns w thout a war rant. |