The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1853-05-26
Singular Case Of Abduction.

n remarkable case OF abduction occur
ed at Bergen Five Corners, N. j., on the
night of the 18th inst. Miss Emily Teal, al
young lady % years of age, of good edu-
cation and respectable. family, stepped
out into the yard about clock, in her
night clothes, with mantilla thrown over
her head; and not returning, her brothers
went out to search for her, but found
nothing except the mantilla. From that
time on the search was continued for
twenty-four hours without success. Ear
ly on Saturday morning, however, she
was found by her family on the steps of
her fathers house, almost exhausted and
helpless, and dressed the same as when
taken away.
Since her return she has been very Ill
and confined to her bed with fever, resul-
ting from the excitement and exhaustion
of the occurrence. Such is the condition
of her health that her physicians have
advised that she be left as quietly as pos
sible until she somewhat regains her COM
posure and strength. Her friends, there
fore, refrain mostly from questioning her
until the danger of her illness is over
She has, at intervals since she reached
home, made some statements, which we
understand from a reliable source, are
as follows: As she was going into her res
idence on the evening of her disappear
ance, and while passing through the arbor
which is built over the walk, she was
seized and so quickly gagged and blinded
that she was unable to give an alarm, and
was conveyed to the street, terrified al
most to fainting. She was taken a short
distance to a carriage and the carriage was
driven, as seemed to her like long dis
tance.
She was then made to walk in the same
blinded and almost stifed condition for
some distance over rough ground and ta-
ken into a house. There she was un-
blindfolded and found herself in a small,
poorly furnished room, where lamp was
burning dimly. She is confident that she
did not cross any ferry; and it is believed
that she was not taken out of Hudson
county. She was kept in that small dar-
kened room, in which the light was burn
ing durng Friday. One ordinary looking
female, and we'll dressed man were the
only persons she saw about the house;
and such were her fears that it is doubtful
whether she could identify them. Food
and drink were offered to her while she
was kept there, but she would not touch
them, and from the. time she was taken
away until she returned, she partOok of
neither.
She believed that those in whose keep
ing she was, designed to drug her. She
was left alone nearly all ofthe time in
the room. On the night of her return
she was walked, gagged and blindfolded
toward her home. Her path appeared
to be through woods and fields, and she
was left in the road running from Ho
boken to Bergen Corners, at point about
half mile from her fathers residence
Her conductors removed the bandage from
her eyes and the gag from her mouth when
they left her, and fed. She found her way
with difficulty to her fathers residence,
which she reached too much exhausted to
give an alarm. She was found lying on
the steps almost insensible, two hours af-
terward by the family, when the door was
opened in the morning.
Such are the facts so far as they are
ascertained. The motives of the parties
in abducting her are yet a subject af con-
lecture. 1t is thought by some that it
was intended to carry off some other per-
son. She suffered no violence at their
hands, except being forcibly carried, and
the occurrence is regarded as verymysteri-
Gus. 1t has created no little excitement
and alarm in that neighborhood.