Salt Lake Telegram | 1927-01-09 | Page 25 | $7000 a Month Awaits Indian Cinderella Who is Missing

A MONTH A AWAITS VI AITS INDIAN CINDERELLA WHO IS MISSING f rI Ac j- j c 4 J 1 J rf k f i H J f r. r 4 C Maud Lee Mudd sketched from a photo f- f r Okla NEA EA Service Maud Lee Mudd 1 Maud Lee Mudd 1 u dd V Voices Ices of scores of agents ot of the federal government government figuratively are crying g this unromantic n name me up and down all the 5 states ates of the Union They want to present Maud Lee Mudd vanished IndIan Cinderella with a a fortune that would assure assur her ease case Sand and luxury for the rest of her lIfe But Cinderella doesn't answer In her silence lies one of the strangest of of- the many perplexing problems Uncle Sam as guardian Of hIs Indian citizens has faced sInce the Midas hand ot of oil discovery dis- dis covery was laid on Oklahoma's s 's scraggly Indian acres Late in November Lee Mudd attained the age ag of 18 years The federal authorIties hoped she would reappear then For the birthday m marked her legal majorIty signifying that she could take corn com of the wealth that has accumulated in her name PO B i weeks past CInder in remaining in inthe inthe the shadowy land of he he missIng Th The nobody who became a sone- sone body has lias turned a nobody once more Maud Lee Mudd was born on a reservation child ot of ignorant IndIan parents Her father died when she shewa wa was 9 months old it year later her mother deserted her her on the thc charity of the tribe Maud Lee Mudd ludd had a childhood like lilee Topsy's she just Four years ears ago however that ragged CInderella came Into her own It was discovered that her fathers father's share in tribal lands now her property was worth a hug hugu sum In addition she inherIted an aunts aunt's estate whIch Included valuable valuable able lead and zinc mines Maud Lee was som body William Simmon government probate probate pro pro- bate attorney was given givena a court order declaring him h hr r guardian Then her moth mother r suddenly reappeared reap reap- penned and claimed her FLIGHT AND MARRIAGE There were legal fights over the girls girl's custody But the mother came in an auto one day got Maud MaudLee Lee Mudd and drove out of Okla- Okla I home into Kansas From there they went to Council Bluffs la Ia In Ina ina a car drIven by one Earl Gordon a white man On the trip Maud Lee Mudd either became fond ot Gordon or else her mother made entreaties to which she submitted meekly st at all ll events she and Gordon were married in CouncIl Bluffs The three then went to te Lo Los An- An geles And there CInderella dis- dis appeared Nobody can find out much about I this She left a theatre in Los Angeles one nIght after her husband had arranged a parts parts' party with a number of frIends She said she would wait for the group at their hotel She has not been seen since her I-her husband and mother returned to Oklahoma but could shed no light on her dIsappearance Government Gov- Gov agents took up the Investigation both here and In the west but In vaIn