New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1858-06-10
A SINGULAR TRIAL-LOFE AND GAR
ROIING.
epondepce oiIhe ". Y. Ihb1ne.

Correspondence o. The N. Y 1neIne.
CAyAyDArGrA, Ostario Co, June ), 1855.
very singulsr trsl has been 10 progress here fer
the pat week, the evd. nee loI ming romance 10
real life that would do justice to the fertile imagnns'
of writer Of 6rst clsss novelties. young msn
named Charles +. Miller. from Gorbam, al a5i,iniDg
town. was employed here last Winter IL the Iespects-
Bile situation of school teacher, going do Sn to his
home occasionally TO Wit young lady whom he hss
since married., Miss Mary Metcalf by name. Now
Mary is good locking, beside having good farm in
prospect In confirmation of the old adsge that the
courfe Of true love did smooth" one Es-
mend De Gls, neighbor, also teacher is supposed
10 pu. himself 10 the wsy, snd the romance begins
One Saturday tho 18Th OF February last, Miller was
quietly sleeping bis bed in the FraDkn House, in
this place. dreaming probably Of Mary, De Graf, or
something Of that KIND when to his horror he awoke
to lnd himself very securely tied hand and loot, and
nap kin in his mouth ss q gag. Two men IN disguise
were in the room, Who int.nogated hun IN the mafter
of his intentions toward Miss Metca, and, unloosing
one hand, forced him TO write IS they dictated two
letter. one Ielr quishisg all claims 70 bis sdyove in
favor of De Graf and the other toa Mis- Sopbia Conn.,
who is the life Of the story Copies OF the irom
recolec tior were produced il Court AEer offering
him r. a.. insult and threatening to quality hi Tor
a situation as keeper Of Moslem harem, they
left HIM as nysteIously as they had appeared
Miller was found the next morning abou. III o elock,
securely tied AID gagged, and was released by
the landlord. IL is generally conceded that some
one tied him, but who that person was Is the mys.
teIy He tanks it was De Graft, but De Gran
proves eonclusiv-ly that he was at home and abed
abb Mt the tin the outrage was perpetra.ed From TINS
poit the plot thickens. Miss Conn. the prime psi
character il the underplot was yislted severa times De-
fore after this garro.iDg affair by soDe psrson wno
she saws was q friend of DE Graf, disguised WITH
uustache and false bar-:Ometlmes masked. AT
these interviews the 6cogRio protested 70 be endeaI
o,pg 10 clear the innocent and punsn the guity In
order 20 further this auda6e undertaking. ana az hs
solcitatior our heroine starts through mud ana mie
at the dead If night on the S'th oi Matcn, 70 20
De Graf q Louse-el ms two miles. Arousng the
family. she tells loird tale Of abduction, and her
escape after yalorous light Her story appeared IN
ppt about that iGe. Bat, slss for the romance, the
testimony makes appear that she quietly walked al
aloe " iihout moeststor-a psrt OF the way IN her
s,ockrgs. the femsipdsr barefooted, en- dtsh1bNe :
and the ax fu tale ste told wss all " in your eye
The peculiar points 10 this case are that the partes
were all highly respectable. They were all neighbors
for Miss Metcalts hand. No ole sa 2 the earrolers
erter CT leave the Franklin House. although persons
were about the house 81 the time. Miller lay tsd Elk
ho1rs without clothing, one OF the coolest ns hts lat
Winter thermometer about zero; aud ye. when re-
l.seed was able 10 wa6 down stairs ant rode some
six or els hi miles the same day. Although an orlgna
case not an orig na letter was produced On the ia
The whole sffair il as clear es mua-Ihs e'iience
being OF the most conflicting character still MI im'
peached. Even Miss Conn, of the mysterious usq'p,
ltocd a most rigid examination without shaking he-
testimony. The object to be accomplished IL a.
mystery, an probsbly will not coon come 10 iis1i.
Tie counsel aie summing up. DE Gran VIII no d'ao'
he acoui,ted or the Jury dlasgree.
TIE Van Tuyl kidnapping case was before thus
Court, and after some very Singular ruling BY the
learned Judge has to lay over till the Fall Term. X.