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t-,0 1-at-jrga.ide-a-*Highway Foreman AidsJHusband FindWifeMrs; Addie Brooks, who left her home in Los Angeles county and started across \he desert last Friday afoot and alone with a 5-year-old stepdaughter, was located in Lerdo last night. The little girl was mis-3-1 sing.y j Stefano Berdano, an Italian fore* y j man of a state highway crew, came in sr/ast night and reported to the sher-s,'iff's office that the woman arrivede-lat his camp on last Sunday. She a stated that she had-left*the little girlit in Bakersfield and sought work at ar the construction camp. Berdano le' met E. O. Brooks, husband of the id'.woman, and identified the photo* 2e graph of Brooks' wife as the woman to at his camp.Was Given Good Care,Berdano is an intelligent Italian 111 and in speaking of the case last night he said that he had endeavored lo k* induce her to go on to Fresno or es else return to Bakersfield. “I told in her that a construction caipp was k0 no place for a woman and took herir-to the Southern Pacific station house 001 at Lerdo Sunday and Monday h0, nights,’' said the Italian and he pro-he vided her with food during the past j is-, two days. iid j Berdano was worried because the ed J woman persisted in remaining around \m o- this camp and came to town last night! ~ especially to inform the officers as J to her peculiar actions in refusing to he go to Fresno or elsewhere on the to! train when he offered to pay her ’or fare.ce1 “.She said that someone was look-tiis ing for her,” said Berndano, “and was 1 ~ aw; afraid to travel on the train, stating .ri tty that she would start 011 her journey a .afoot.’' jtlid-; Father Seeks Trace of ChiliLon ' Brooks was at the jail when the 0 int, Italian came with his information f land it was a great disappointment hJeito him when he learned that the lit-1ses tie girl was not with her stepmother. ted He visited the orphanage yesterday je a^ .and endeavored to find some trace / L«d of the girl/hoping that the woman/ l'at had left her in town. |Cas • The husband secured trace of hl3 1 j wife at Keene on Monday, as several 1 a ^persons had noticed her passing j i set, • through. He also got in touch with t ‘oft! persons who had kindly allowed her c^er.’to ride with them in their auto. The/jjittle girl was with the woman when ( she reached Keene. *Brooks went out to Lerdo last ITS-night with Berdano and he is hope-, ful that he will soon find his little / daughter safe and sound. He says].' that his wife has been in poor health 1ata-byIierthetheromand lays her actions to this cause. j1 The woman left her home without hmoney and started afoot across fche(' desert, succeeding in traveling over t to] 200 miles across the desert and or-j mountains with the little girl, in less than three days* time. I
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Bakersfield Morning Echo
Bakersfield, California, US
Wed, Nov 11, 1914
Page 10
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