New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1873-03-16
DRUGGEB AND KIDNAPPED.
One of New YOrk's Mysterious Disap
pearances Accounted FOr-Captain Nc
Daniels, Adventures.

DanleiA> adventures
One of the most mysterious cases of dis
appearance, says the New York ErDress
| that puzzled the police and made columns
| of newspaper speculation last fall has been
! furnished with the following solution bv
| the lost individual himself: CAPTAIN Nc.
| Daniels, of CanOnsburg, Pennsylvania
| started East last October TO buy goods
After a brief visit to Philadelphia he took
| the train for this city.
On the cars he met a salesman with whom
he had traded before, and while canvassing
| the state of the market with him, a tall,
well dressed prepOssessing looking stranger
joined the party and requested permission
to display some samples of laces that he
| was selling. Permission being accorded,
| the goods were shown, after which some
desultOry conversation followed, and the
| stranger left them. As McDaniels was 90
ing to the terryboat to cross from jersey
City the stranger appeared again and told
him he had better take boat lower down
on the slip, as the other went too high up
town for his purposes.
The captain accepted the advice. and the
stranger kindly proffered his services to
see him straight for the ST. Nicholas Hotel
after landing. They left the ferryboat to-
gether and started to walk up street that
runs at right angles to tbs Hudson. The
name Of the street the captain did not
know. After they had walked block the
stranger invited him to take a drink, and
they went into "a saloon for that purpose
The saloon, the captain states, had bar to
the right on entering, and in the rear were
a counter and several refreshment tables
Captain Mechanics took two cups of coffee,
after drinking which all consciousness de.
parted.
When his senses returned he found him.
self lying on the floor of an apartment from
six to eight feet square. No door Or.WindOw
was discoverable and the place was in total
darkness. Searching for his personal effects,
he discovered that his watch and chain
two drafts on New York and $1,000 in
greenbacks, which had been tied around
his waist in handkerchief. were gone
The situation flashed upon him; he had
been dru gged and robbed, and now. doubt
less, was slowed away until he could be
murdered and disposed of. Heartsick and
weak from poison. he lapsed again into in
sensibility.
When consciousness returned, the rolling
motion and sound of trampng feet over
head made him aware that he was on ship
of some kind. Feeling around he discov-
cred biscuits and pan of water alongside
of him. Frequent attempts to attract at
tenti0n by knocking ON the roof of his
prison resulted in disappointment. Some
time afterward, an age it seemed to the
captain, some one opened the hatch and
looked in. An appeal to him to bring some
tea met with no response. Soon afterward
the door reOpened and two men ordered him
to "come up on deck" He did so, and was
forced into yawl boat at the side of the
vessel. Two sailors got in also and then
pushed off. The vessel, as he saw her while
pushing off, seemed to be an oyster sloop
about sixty feet long. They rowed for about
an hour. when they reached the shore
breakers A little further and the beach
became dimly visible. When they had run
in close he was ordered to jump out, which
he did and went ashore. He crept into the
bushes and waited for the dawn. Shortly
three horsemen passed by, and hailing
them, he found himself prisoner to three
soldiers, speaking tongue with which he
was unaoquainted. They treated him with
great indignity, claiming him in a stockade
where negroes were already confined. They
cent in plenty of rice, yams and oranges for
provision. One of the negroes could speak
d little English, and he gathered that the
Spaniards of Cuba were his captOrs.
He was released by midnight attack Of
negro guerillas on the post. Alter wander
ing for several days with these partisans he
effected his escape, and guided by the sound
of the guns of MORO Castle, reached Hav.
ana. He meta sailor. who took him aboard
of vessel in the harbOr. and after few
days recruiting, he entered as shipping
clerk with CumbargO & Co.. No 3 Reilly
street. He retained his position until he
had accumulated sufficient money to 90 TO
New Orleans, to which point his friends
had forwarded money. He became i'll after
his arrival in the Crescent City, and was
prevented from returning nome Tor several
weeks He only succeeded i'll reaching
home loUr DAYS ago.