The Mother Who Hunted a 'Scandalous' Actor Across the West

A local journalist was disturbed last night by a woman who claimed he was a man named DuBois, an actor who had abducted her daughter and broken up her family. By persistent and vigorous questioning, the unfortunate journalist finally convinced the woman of his identity, and she was allowed to depart in peace after positive proof was provided. A still further amusing feature of the affair is that this is the second time the journalist has been publicly accused by the woman as being a 'base deceiver' and the wrecker of her domestic happiness. Last fall, when the Fay Templeton Opera House Company appeared in this city, the too-susceptible newspaper man is said to have become enamored of one of the fair members of that company. He followed her to San Jose, where his first such trouble occurred. He was walking along one of the thoroughfares of that city one evening, when he was suddenly accosted by an irate woman who declared him to be DuBois, the actor who had wronged her daughter. In proof of her charge she held out a likeness which bore a striking resemblance to him. Subsequent research revealed the woman is Mrs. Meagher, who was briefly an inmate of the Oregon Insane Asylum. Her daughter had eloped with a man named DuBois; the mother, obsessed with finding them, has spent her life and resources wandering from city to city, repeatedly accosting innocent men in public places in her search for vengeance.