The Face of Rosenfeld — page 249: what you’re looking at

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rs 3, - OE ara THY ACE OF ROSENFAL. for admitting her claim without further inquiry, but the good sense of the others prevailed, and the most rigid investigation ensued. A choice list of the best physicians in the city was made up, each of whom was to make a separate examination of the scar left by the amputation, and return to the executors his opinion as to its age. The opinions varied greatly, but the average result was certainly of a character to justify our worst suspicions. The general verdict placed the date of the wound within a year, and there was but one voice to the belief that the amputation, instead of being the intelligent and careful work of a physician, was the bungling performance of a person ignorant of the first principles of surgery. ‘The physician who had operated upon the real Ethel, was dead, but his standing and knowledge of his profession was undoubtedly of the first order. Here, at the outset, was a manifest flaw in the Stevenson case; but before it could be followed up, information was obtained, which let the light in upon the whole mystery. While the executors were getting over the shock of the first as- tonishment, caused by these developments, and were preparing to proceed to extreme measures, the last of the Forsythe impostures came to a sudden termination, by the flight of all concerned in the conspiracy. Such is the remarkable I‘orsythe case, as we knew it, and as the world knew it a week ago to-day. ‘This is the outer and surface history. J have added a_ brief statement of the secret history, as the events of the past few days have made them known to us. Kthel Forsythe was stolen by the Jew himself. From the day of her abduction she led a forlorn and unsatis- factory life. She was brought up under the false name of Annette Dye. She traveled about the country be- lieved and believing herself to be the daughter of a moral coward, whom the Jew had succeeded in getting completely under his thumb. She might have been the daughter of that moral coward still, had not an acci- dent revealed to her a part of the truth of her situation. She committed the indiscretion of telling this knowledge to her pretended father, He flew, with the startling news ~ comicbooks.com —