Wilmington daily gazette., 1874-07-01
9. WILMINGTON, DEL, WEDNESDAY,, JULY l. 1874 PR
From the N. 7. Sun, June 80.
A Young Wife Kidnapped.

A Young Wife Kidnapped.
lHE AsToSrsHfNa STORY THAT Is TOLD By
MRS. JULIA ANN SWEET. A
The following extraordinary story is told
oy Mrs. Julia Ann Sweet, of LOT Clinton
place:
:, Mrs. Sweet and her husband came from
n1v,oence iorwsr to this city two weeks ago. the
Iney hired an apartment In Clinton place,
ana Mrs Sweet obtained employment in
holghts saloon, ut Hudson and Broomo
streets. On Saturday night sine returned
somewhat late from her business, and un-
sole TO OBTAIN admission at her lodgings
without aronsing all the inmates OF the
mouse, she went 10 hotel where she was
known, and passed the nil ht there. On
sunday morning she went TO No. Il Wsst
street,,o see cook employed In Knights
saloon. She took cup OF coffee, and short
~ afterward fell into a slumber, from which
she became half conscious at Intervals later
In the day, only 10 be again drugged into
lnsensloility. AT length she sank Into q
profound sleep, from which she did NOT
awake until Monday morning, when she
found herself in room at l9S South Filth
avenue. with u colored Iuffian, who threat
ened to Kill her if she made any outcry. Ia
The afternoon he again drugged her into q
steio OF semi-stupor. and Disgusting her
with some clothes In the room, he took her
| to the house in Watts street, where shc was
kept under the influence OF narcotics until
| night. Tho knidnapper then told her he
| wss going 10 take her home, and she wen.
out with him, and soon found herself once
more In South Fifth avenue. She protested
against the outrage and would have called
tue police. but he terrified her into silence
and hurried her into the house. When she
reached the room In which she had passed
| the previous night he repeated the threat
that no would shoot her II she made the
| least effort 10 eaCana IN IN n qai a q
| de then Administered more OF the drug and
from that time until saturday; she was
| kept in kind of half-stupor, and conscious
only that she was living with q coiored man
On saturday morning, under the i'm press
| ion that the police were looking for him, he
released her on promise that she would not
| tell any one what had occurred, at the same
| time threatening to shoot her II she broke q
| word. she at once " ent home and told her
| husband OF the outrage TO which she haG.
been subjected. He went 10 the Polioo e. 3
tral ounce, and informed Capt. Ixx{<H Ia
| tective Field having been dof6&6 &4I/&
duty arrested the negrn, &k6x6 lI54 t
Gabriel Smith. HeS08 49, fo1od 4fn-
Sweet Is an attneelse p2Io1 r1tG tGIonly-
'i'e years. - IL 4 ssxa ~.
lFstenssiauisusssei lor1ohSSe,s orear
III .rt e4i n slsa3 H4n11s
" I2t lFrou ~ 2p1on11uta Union. June 25
n o-eo1op{ctto& ~ Donnhue OF his great feat
~ W4IknKtuoe thousand miles ia one thousand
fhop{o nnffaaHy eNcites considerable interest, not
fb&{yW TINS neg ghborhood, but wherever athle.lr
4 slfeffofmances he'd in estimation. Ii Is, in
jdeed, a prodigious achievement never but once
paralicled in sporting annals, aud its successful
performance places Donahue in the I'll ST rank OF
American pedestrlanism.
His weary tramp, began six weeks ago this a
ternoon, was completed at three minutes oil eight
o'clock this morning, and he has the satisfaction
such as 1t may be-of knowing that he has ac-
complished feat which no other living man has
accomplished, and which only the late Captain
Barclay, of England, has ever accomplished be
fore HIM. Accustomed Tor many years to walk
thirty miles day At his work, that of a mule
spinner, he had term OF preparation that pecn-
n laxly lifted bin TOR The great task which he un-
:
been very small, and - - <,ss1 srcessary to
encourage him in evSs3 ~ ~: but since
Wednesday OF this we<k ~ 9csr approach OF
give him fresh zeal IN ~ ~ n Ksfks.S hours Tie
strain upon HIM has be&n ~ 6r-S~4 koweycr that
once asleep, II has often h01X Ia 10 arouse
him sufficiently to mar HtR ssHz anl thing
such the sevaaal u1H<6VI3<f nirht, aud
his march, he staggered - U[ VI -
dictcd he would give O. - " L
was faithfully attended, ([uQfI tuI11l
down as usual with rum ~ -
two miles, and so kei.t 41 H1&I
and by hrs marvellous en . II1n(1
at eight O'Clock this mo ~ - u
dsstrlan of the word. <<>@x Z ~ ~. ~
!, Immediately after the = ~ MI y
miles, Donahae, with hh & 1T
cIans, made cath as TO VI 5M| o9coI
pllshsd. Donahue signed u16 ~ trer
blibg, yet clear hand. ~ 4<
, Donahue came down town Ifdo clio
I this morning, and walked nt G.
up two flights Of STAIRS into7 3& tditoi
I, rooms. He declared that h "lr
, rate" and If any body had $50, !
he would attempt to 60 ~ pre-.
wished US to announce h. - pion
destrisn of the world, nsh>. r. .uhaeAr I.
| tainiy justified IN setting - ~ xAnc
was that of q man wofu - II
not utterly exhausted. A~&
THE HEIR TO A KQfttx sKD
NV YonK. Juus s1E VISA !,
. morniuS LOUIS T. JcuU14 4&71u Of ct'
Jewett OF 357 West 16x11 net wAnt Z
the North river pier at fifle16l4 11reet ton \nsa
He did not return in the evening. and search Ta:
made for him. On Sunday his dead body rossS
the pier where he had been fishing Ii was noised
about the neighborhood that he had been thrown
. loyerboard. As 1t was known that he was hsir to
> n vast property owned BY his grandfather, it was
rumored that somebody wished to get him out oI
, the way thorough investigation wss made
, and the conclusion was that he was accidentally
D drowned.
, Notwithstanding the strikes in England ths