Mrs. Tompkins Found

Chicago, Sept. 26.- Two years ago al most to a day Elizabeth A. Tompkins famous in two continents as the best aiK most fluent woman writer on turf topics of modern .times, disappeared in Chicago She left a tragedy im her wake. The mys tery of her disappearance shattered th health of her husband and almost causee his death. It left him wrecked for llfe. From that time until now no word was ever heard of the missing woman. Her disappeiruice was as complete as though she liad vanished in the air. No motive was ever known for her flight and no olew was ever found as to whHher she had gone. She deserted her husband, Gwynne B. Tompkins, at one time a writer on the New York Sun, and later a well-known turfman. Broke Dovrn wlth Grief. There was no domestie jar, and the family had entree to the best society in Washington. Her husband came on to Chicago in search for her. For seventy hours he tried every moans to fiad trace óf his wife. Then borne down by grief and disappointment, he swooned in the Press club rooms and for weeks lay in St. Luke's hospital at the point of death. Restored to health, he tried again to find his wife, but the search was f uitless. Now from San Francisco comes the intelligence that she is living in rooms in a fashionable quarter of that city and her compapion is Normal Brough, tho official hanuícapper of tho Bay District track. Brough anc Mrs. Tompkins met at the Saratoga track New York, and their acquaintance sooi becaine intimacy. Followed BrougU West. He carne west and slie followed later Brough has caref ully eoncealed from his turf associates the location of hÍ6 homc, and in the neighborhood where he resides is known only as "Mr. Thompson." Mrs. Tompkins was on a trip from Washington to this city when she1 disappeared. Oct. 16 she telegraphed her husband from St. Louis that she had left that city for Chicago. That was the last he ever heard from her. The mystery connected with her disappearanoe, the apparent lack of motive, and the blightlng effect it had on her husband created an intense excitement at the time. With her was her little gokle;i-haired child, 8 years old, which Mrs. Tompkins now has with her in San Francisco.