SEARCHING FOR A SISTER.
A Romantic Story Brought to Light at
St. Louis.
St. Louis, July IS,—A romantic story was brought to tho surface here to-day through tho application of Miles H. Howell for police aesistonco in his search for o lost sister. Tho Howell family, confisting of tho father and two children, a boy, Miles, oged 17 yoars, and a girl, Mary Ann, aged 8 years, wero very poor. The fathor had met with misfortune, and the boy and girl were growing up fast, when in the spring of 1577 Miles ran away. He went to Colorado and found work in the mines. He prospered, nnd climbing from labourer to minoowner, returned to St. Louis a woaltby man. He learned that his father had died only a fow months after ho ran away, and his sister had been adopted by a family named Downes. Downes left the city several years ogr^ind is said to have scut the girl to an unclo in Connetticut. Howell is going to follow tho Connecticut cluo.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 202, 28 August 1886, Page 5
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