Show WEIRD STORY TOLD Of I Indian Massacre Restored I I Memory and Lost Sister Figure in Tale Y Los s An Angeles ete Juno Julio 27 The The romantic story of or n a young oun Woman who tho after being taken taleen prisoner b by Indians and later finding a homo home with well to people grew rew up not kni knowing what her real namo name was as or who vito her parents were has hns come to light and by the tho merest trick of ot fate her whereabouts discovered b by her brother Francis Kierscey of 1117 Do Dewey cy avenue this city The Tue young oun woman is Mrs IrH Isa Isa- bell Ladd now the wife of or the tho postmaster post post- master of ot Joplin Mo Her lIer maiden r name should have been Nora Isabell but she was brought up to I believe bellev that she site was Isabell Sargent The strange tale had Its be beginning 3 32 years ago alO when her hor father leaving California with herself and brother slightly older oIlIer went to Missouri and became become head of ot a band of or rf scouts lie He left len the dau daughter with a family In a small Missouri 1 town A month after oCter his ill departure a a. band of ot marauding Indians entered the town and took tool a number of or women and children captive cap cap- tive monK Among them was little three- three year-old year Isabell In the meantime the tho scouts had given Iven chase to the lar larger er band and In a 0 battle which took toole In Texas I was shot through the head Ho lie recovered but his memory mem maui or ory or was blank Back In url Missouri tho the Indians hearing nearing near hear ing Ingo of or their ten follows follows' ws' ws defeat fled lied from the country leaving behind their prisoners and young oun Miss 1 was adopted by tho the family of ot T. T I I. I Sargent well-to-do well farmers o ol oi Joplin Mo She Sho grow trew up under their care and was known as their laughter daughter Eight years ago aKo when wIlen the th father met with an nn accident In a Cripple Creek mine an attack of or fever brought back balk his memory Ho lie be began an a search for tor his long lost lest laughter daughter but his death Intervened and the brother took It up where the father rather had left lell off ott About three years yeats ago oKO he lie learned through advertisements alJ placed In southern papers that his sister was ed elJ to bo be with a family named Sargent Sal The brother coming coining to Los Angeles became a mem member er of or the police pollee depart depart- ment Two weeks we-ek ago aJO ho lie located tho the Sal Sargent ent family faintly In Joplin Mo 10 and wrote for Information Se Several days doys ago the answer came caine It contained enough Information to prove beyond beonda a n. doubt that his sister had been heen found round It I Is expected that a a. reunion will take talea place Inside of ot t a f few few ew months month s. s when the sister and her two children will visit her hor relatives In this city |