Show SEEKS HEIRESS MISSING I MORE THAN UN 35 YEARS I IBy a By r The Tho m's ms Special News New Sen CHICAGO Dec 23 Yes Yes truth is sometimes stranger than fiction Here is an instance It is the story of a a woman christened Edna Churchill The story goes back to thirty-five thirty years ago when Dr Abb Churchill then a. a prosperous physician of Chicago Chi tChi- cago married Miss Lola Alexander a beautiful young woman of wide popularity popularity larity But for all her comeliness and I amiability she disliked childr children n. n And when a baby daughter came it received re received received re- re no welcome from her The maternal affection which should have haye rewarded the young young life life was missing One day during her husbands husband's absence absence ab ab- ab sence the young mother gave l her r child to a Dr Churchill returning home hastened hastened hastened has has- joyously to the childs child's crib where he was accustomed to find the baby upon his return Unlike Unlike his wife he adored the infant His grief following the discovery that the child was gone was was pitiable ble Nor would h his s wife alleviate it by telling him of the childs child's whereabouts To all his frenzied inquiries she shook her head He could not force her herto herto herto to speak His grief gave way to tragic despair At this period they were living in jn Indianapolis whither they had moved from Chicago The mothers mother's act created created created cre cre- an ever widening chasm between them They separated Dr Churchill moved farther west established a a. new practice and mar married married mar mar- ried ned a second time Some years later he died Two weeks later his first wife died On her deathbed repentance came caine to her and she divulged the fate of her only child chUd Then her will was read It dis' dis disposed disposed posed of property valued at of All of this in the event her daughter Is not found will be given to friends and distant relatives by the Indiana courts By law the daughter is entitled to it all But nobody knows where the daughter daugh daugh- ter is Thirty-five Thirty years have passed since she was given away in her babyhood babyhood babyhood baby baby- hood and she is a woman woman now with children of her own perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Perhaps Per Per- haps she is married and living in tn wealth and luxury perhaps she is living living living liv liv- ing in poverty or perhaps she is not living at all Who knows |