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Show STRANGE PARALLEL TO THAW CASE IN SAN FRANCISCO - MISS ANNA BELMONT. 4 The tragic story of Evelyn Nesbit Thaw has been duplicated in all but it. ? deadly climax by the revelations of MIsk Anna Belmont, an attractive girl living at the Hotel Dale. There is tho same recital of a misplaced confidence, confi-dence, a frightful experience and a desperate htrugjile for freedom from a maze of entangling surroundings. The girl has ju?t passed her eighteenth vear and set about yesterday to cast off the ties uhich fhc has loug endured. en-dured. This briefly. Is the story she told; That she had beru the ward of BIslv ep Parkin and his wife from the tlmo of her mother's death. 12 years ago. That thev had introduced her in April of last yeur to H. L. Smith, a young Englishman, and had induced iier to promise him her hand In marriage. mar-riage. That Smith had first won her confidence confi-dence and had obtained 810,000 of her money to invest In a chemical company com-pany that he operates at Seal Cove, on Half moon bay. That Smith had introduced her to the great white way and had taken her to dinner at French restaurants and had muddled her brain with wine. That he hod subjecled her to tho grossest of Indignities. That she hod Anally discovered that he was using her money to lavish gifts upon another woman, Georgia Scott of j Ayigusta, Mont. That sho broke off with Smith and j canceled the engagement. That she has secured the services of Attorney E. K. Smith in order to recover the money advanced for the clifinlcal company enterprise. That fhe has left the- home of Bishop Bish-op Parkin aud was forced to take out a search warrant to secure her cloth- Jng. . I Such In outline is the life history I f IS-yearol.l Anna Belmont. Her own i l-tory as told to the correspondent Is follows: j ".My life with the Parkins was never ; tiappy. When my father left me with them and went to South Africa at my mother's death thev took full charge of mv affairs, provision being made for the payment to them of a fixed sum each month. I was always restricted re-stricted by them in everything and made to feel like a menial. "I was Introduced to Harry Smith by Bishop Parkin and his wife In April, 1908. as thev admired him very much. He was much older than me I waa 17 then and he was about 38 years old. I as never allowed to go out with anv boys, but the Sunday following my meeting with Smith they encouraged encourag-ed me to go out with him. "He took me around the city and we 1 finally went to a place called Jack's In GoMen Gate avenue, where we had I dinner In a private room. i "On that occasion he offered me wine and urged me to drink this. Tho following Sunday be took me to another an-other restaurant, where we had more wine. Later he urged me to come to his apartments, but I refused The next week, while we were out walking, under the pretext that he had to answer an-swer some letters, be took me to his olllce. where I became unconscious." Miss Belmont has only harsh words for the Parkins' and the whole mailer became public when she secured ;i search warrant in order to allow her to gain possession of her clothing at the Parkins home. Her engagement to Mr. Smith is now broken aud her life at the home of Bishop Parkins is a memory of the past. The $10,000 she let Mr. Smith have to lmest is probably prob-ably gone, but she Is trying to get possession pos-session of It. I |