National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-03-14

A Startling Narrative OF Abduction A
Young Lady Forced Into n Carriage md
Carried onin DnyIIsht.f

carried on In DnyliRht.
From the Intcr. ooean1
About 0 o'clock ON Fri,Inv nornIng Ian, Mars, |
? uis, t,I,,,, n 49,. ,'i,. 80
~ u'ss h.'c L. young a'y tWehb-one
years OF age residing at No. IL Indiana ave-
nue., near TwCnty-siNth street left her home 10
M In Tvcnty.qccnnI s,roa, an 80, a., 10.
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turned as lar nome as Twenty-fourth street and
Indiana avenue when the circumstance occurred
which are narrated below. A lady fron, .Ioiict
naI ,.I,I,,., ~. 80, a. -. - -. VVi''
, ',sl'v wv On we previous uay ana the TACT
lhht sue uIu not return nome rs early as usual
on Friday was interpreted Of her home as nli-
eating that possibly she hal met her Joliet friend
and ,,o, ic,,Ino1 ,s,'a,,,, 49,, -, -. -,
"n' ""' "'a'.'" uV'ou" w hV"r WIEN sue
usually maze hcr way hOlneward. The trip
from Twenty-secOnd street to Twenty-sixth
CO.,, h,isr 40 ani,,,s,s, ~. 1,,,, $500
WY nI'Sh VI uhlhatcu one rus section OF
the Guy Is exclusively a residence quarter,
quite cOmnactly built, and, In the portion named,
occupicd by A very excellent cIasa Of bousc.
owners, or by tenants Gf nore man average
means. The Young lady hal made the trip scy.
Crll times before, aud 1ccnsionaIly AFTER night
fail, and felt perfectly safe IIcT route was VERY
plain-up Cottage drove avenue non, Twrnty
second street TO Prairie avenue, thence through
1wenty-thtrl street 10 Indiana Avenue and
south IN Indiana avenue h0mewnnI, Tho preaicr
Part Of her Journey had been accommodated when
She reached the corner Of TwCnty-fOuTth street
and Indiana avenue There were scarce any
was bright and pleasant one The viii was
lust crossing Twenty-ioufth street, when, in a
moment or two two men tolerably well dressed
approached and spoke TO her. one was aulte
tan and spare; the other more portly and older,
The two alighted from close carriage which
the Young lady mad sCCn slowly JTiyinV south
ward on Indiana avenue. The taller Of the two
men confronted her first, and
TnE CARRIAGE DnOyEVr
over the crossing, apparently as II the driver
had received previous and accurate directions
what TO do. Startled but entirely unsuspiclous
OF the intent Of the men, the young lady cndeay-
Ored TO walk on toward home. The two men,
however, quickly took her between them pushed
her into the carriage, Jumped In after her and
turning into Twenty.fOurih street, and thence,
the girl thinks, westward, tho driver pushed his
horses along quite rapidly. The young lady SAYS
she was too frightened 10 give any alarm: the
men were armed, and In a lew seconds after she
was forced into the carriage she began TO grow
drOwsy and weak as n from the effects III an
anHsthctic. She was
100 NUMB AND TOO FRIGHTENED
to make any opposition. she thinks the men
hurried along Twenty fourth street for a dis
lance, and that they then turned southwark Into
broader street, looking to the bewildercd girl
very mt oh like one OF the avenues The Rrl
TO two hours--uf the time she Is not positive.
No conversation occurred to her knowledge In
the carriage, and though the men may have com
munlcated with each other neither OF them said
anything TO her. The party finally halted before
two.stOry frame house. The girl had rccOy-
efel hefseli sulnCiently TO notice that the neigh.
bOthOOu m which they hal stopped was closely
and c0lnpactly built, nnd to draw the conclusion
that she was stu somewhere within the city
limits. Shc had seen enough to feel satisfied
mat whatever these two men proposed to do,
WIN hcr resistance would he useless, and when
the carriage stopped and the men descended to
the pavement she Dbcyed their motion that sue
should follow theln. They took her into the
house npa stairway, into back room IN the
second story.
TilE GIRLS STORY
o. what happened from ms point has been given
~ msL own ansnage only TO her father TO the
family, wholesale provision dealer OF this city,
from whom most OF the particulars Of the case
have been learned. About noon, the gill thinks,
she found herself In back chamber with win
dows looking out on small yard. The room
was moderately well furnished had few chairs,
mirror, anu a lounge. The room had but one
door, lhat 10y which she entered, aud this was
locked from the outside as soon AS she had
crossed the threshold. Nothing was said to her
by either OF me men; they aided her up the stair
way, pushcd her W, turned the Key, ana left her
she had no time, even II she had the self
possession, TO ask the reason why they had alb
Quoted her. What they purpOsed doing with her
she hau no lneans OF knowing. She
TRIED TnE DOORS ASD WINDOWS,
found she could not quit the house; that TO break
the windows would probably be OF no use-the
area IN the rear Of the house being lnclosed by \
nigh board fence. The abduction had occurred
on FRIDAY morning. The girl thinks they reached
the house about II or " O'Clock, and from that
.llnc Sniii nearly nightiIll she saw no person at
hut no one came into the room where she was
shut ~; Seeing no way out OF her tpEmcnt, she
concluded 70 Keep sun, and finally, lying down,
went TO sleep. No one came into the room until
alter uaTk' AMI then the taller OF the two men
VINO hau pushed hcr into the carriage entered
WIN woman. inc woman approached her,
puned hcr TO the light, said To the man
NO, sHk u NOT TitE GlHl,'
and then turning about went out OF the room,
the man following anu again locking the door
from the outside no one came into the room on
Friday night; the girl remained there slept
| two or three hours; heard no noise or no dis
turbancc; she tried the door three or four times,
but found u locked the same Us during the AZ
ternOon, AMI there she remained until daybreak
saturday morning. A person, apparently q
| servant, brought IN some lunch on Saturday
morning, and retired without saying n word.
The door was TclOCkcd, aud from that time on
until between two and three O'Clock In the az
teTnOOn, when she again tried the door found
| II open, and made her way down the stairway
| to the street. The girl saw no person In the
room where she was kept captive, and none
about the house. No violence, no insult was
offered her. At first she was In a state OF
stupOr Then, she says, she thought only OF
what these people proposed to do with her, and,
afterward, when the remark Of the woman indi-
Gated to her that possibly there hal been mis-
takc-that they would ubcrate hcr-then, she
NV agV"s Ut 'nc 'no"s"' " hcr hlo'hcr anu
ruvp,ruru,s .r,pcu
superintendent Washburn was notified that