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Show LOOKS FOR RICH FATHER Nurse Who Cared for Boy Many Years Seeking His Parents. CHICAGO, Nov. 28. Unable longer to bear the burden of supporting a boy she adopted seventeen years ago and, learning learn-ing that his father is wealthy and prominent prom-inent in the social. world, Mrs. Emma Lowe, a nurse, residing at 274 Wells street, is attempting to locate him in the hope that he will assist his 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 tall, 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 850 note and a promise of more at frequent intervals. The man's name .was George Charles Charlton, said to be the son of a wealthy L resident of London, Canada. Never having heard of him again and, as the child had gradually endeared himself to both herself and her husband, Mrs. Lowe did not attempt to locate him until her husband met with business busi-ness reverses. He has now been an Inmate In-mate of an Insane asylum for Ave years. "I have traced the boy's father to Chicago." Chi-cago." asserted Mrs. Lowe. "He is able to care for the boy, and should do so." The story woven around the life of Albert Al-bert Edward Charlton Lowe, as the boy was christened by his foster-mother, is as romantic cs aver penned by a fiction writer. Just seventeen years ago, November 22, 1887, in Toronto, Canada, Mrs. Emma Em-ma Lowe, a professional nurse, whose husband was a high salaried employee in a wholesale house in that city, was aroused from her slumber at her home. 88 Mutual street, about midnight by a visit from a strange man. accompanied by a heavily-veiled woman, dressed in black, who bore In her arms an infant scarcely three weeks old. |