New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1852-10-15
DAILY CRESCENT.
OFFICIAL JOURNAL
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A MAN TniEp KIDNAPPING Hia sisTEa,--an Aipa7 =
correspondent the NewYok Herald relates the fellow
ing curious case;
novel and very singular case was tried peiorh
Robinson the Court of General Sessions new ho ,
in this airy n annears marriage took place abat
the first Of March last. between young man ii 49,
nv Shutter Of the town of CoeJmans ana young N,ay
E,len sbuar who Is related BY way Of being hs own hall
aunt His age about twenty-five ana me auss mus
teen Al the time .y wn1s to the as being
apnarently Of the family the reverend gentleman
inquired whether any s a
aims to each other The clergyman, upon this statement
united them in the bonds of matrimony
The welded pair then returned each to their former
homes lest the friends of the young lady might be
awakened to the Suspicion that candesne marriage
had perpetrated Matters remained in this cendi
ton few days when the lady very unceremoniousy lett
her home, and went to that of ier husband The fnIy
then became acuuainted with the fact that marriarH
had taken place and on the second div of her absence
two Of her brothers. accompanied by two ether persons
proceeded to the honse where she about eight oclne
in the morning fOFcbty enteSed the chamber where the
couple and tore her forcibly from the Of her
husband Her cries and snppications for release pre-
duced effect upon her abducturs, She taken in
Sleigh carried the city Of Albany transferred f
cars and taken with all possible speed TO the village OF
of Evansville Ind
The husband complained to the authorities Of the k
mapping of his wife and procured indictments against
Michael Shutter. the adys brother, and named
Miller The latter being thrust into prison aud detained
without being able to procure BAIL announced his nnn-
ton of turning States evidence and revealing the who'll
affair, if the public authorities would release him from
prison. This done and upon the trial he revealed The
material facts of the abduction substantially stated
above The District Attorney, during the last three
months, has been very diligently searching for Ellen
whose testimony it was important to present to the jury
but entirely unsuccessful Having established the
fact of the foreble abduction beyond peradYentite
as he supposed he rested upon the part OF the people
When the counsel for the prisoner opened for the ac
cused. who brought witness! Why, on the stand
steps Ellen herself who had been concealed ever since
March from the vigilance of the public officers Her own
brother before her prisoner charged with the crime
of kidnapping her the punishment for which would in
yolve incarceration Of probably ten years in the stat
prison She held the fate Of her brother in her hand
the husband side demanding justice, and b@r
brother the other side supplicating for mercy She
yielded to the latter and declared before the court a
jury. that she from her husbands voluntarily
The testimony being concluded. tho counsel for tn,
prisoner moved for his discharge c0ntendipg that there
Of action 10 this request the court finally
consented the taken Of the hands of tila
jury and the prisoner di-charged