The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1870-12-22

amrmative whereupon the agitatec
suppliant said that she had once met
her at the house of friend in Wells
burg, and implored her for Heaven,
sake to stay with aud protect her from
"those men." Convinced now tha,
there was something wrong in the af.
fair, and r. membering that d friend o.
hers in Wellsburg had, at party one
evening, introduced to her young lady
strongly resembling the stranger, the
lady thus appealed to for protection in.
quired of the oldest gentleman Of the
party if all was right, and received an.
swer that he understood his own busi.
ness and should reply to no gratuitous
inquisition. So speaking, the gentle
man, abetted by his two younger CON-
panions, was about seizing upon the
captive again, when the latter, calling
the lady by her name of Mrs P, re-
newed the entreaty that she should not
leave her. Still clinging to that lady
she was forced from the car by the three
men, the old man saying that she should
go to the st. Charles Hotel, where her
sister was staying. The young lady
continues the Gazette, remarked to Mrs
P that she had no sister at the St
Charles Hotel or in the city, and begged
her for Gods sake TO take charge of her
and protect her from the men. Mrs
P said she was going to the Monon-
gahela House, and as there appeared t.
be some mystery about the matter, sht
would take the girl with her where the
gentleman could explain. The old gen.
tleman again made some crusty remark
about being able to attend to his own
business, and said that he would take
the girl to the st. Charles. Mrs p
was fixed in her purpose, and insisted
that she should accompany her to the
Monongahela House. The old gentle
man, probably to prevent continuance
of the parley, yielded, and the party all
save one of the young men moved out
of the car, the young lady still clinging
to Mrs. P, and got in an omnibus
Mrs. P directed the driver to drive
to the Monongahela House. He evil
IDENTIFY received other instructions, as in
stead of going to the hotel he drove to
the Monongahela wharf, where the mys-
terious party got out, and the young la
dy, against her consent, was forced upon
the Elector, which was just ready to
start. Mrs. P felt that she had been
out-generaled, but still thinking there
was something wrong, she called to the
captain of the boat, who was on the
hurricane deck, and informed him that
there was something mysterious about
the party just going aboard the boat
and requested him to see that no harm
came to the lady. Inquiry concerning
the matter of the officers of the steamer
on which the party took passage, proved
that the party dlsembarked at Elk Val
ley paper-mills, about thirty miles up
the Monongahela River. The captain
stated that he observed nothing unusual
in the actions of the party. The girl
made no complaint, and he saw no cause
for any interference on his part. II
there was no foul play connected with
the affair, the only hypothesis upon
which the mystery can be explained is
that of the girls insanity, a conclusion
scarcely warrantable from the statement
of Mrs. P, whose statement was in
part corroborative of the gentleman con-
nected with the wharf boat, who says he
noticed that the young lady was forced
on the boat against her will, and that he
called the attention of a gentleman from
Brownsville, who was aboard, to the
matter, and requested him to investigate
1t. In short, the whole affair remains q
mystery, and is iull of romantic sugges-
ton for the imaginative reader.