The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1875-06-10
Tue WEATHER YESTERDAY was partly cloudy
or clear and warmer. At night it was clear
anu cool. q
LOCAL MATTERS.

DIsAFPEARANcE OF CLAIRyoYANT-A
MATTER OF MYSrERY.-Chief Of Police Poe
a day or two ago received communication
from Mrs. Mary Earl Nudge, dated Wor-
sbam's, Prince Edward county, May the
7th, saying:
"Alhert Earl Nudge. wife, and child have
not been seen or heard from since they left
Richmond Saturday evening, Goth May, in
their buggy for Petersburg. II is supposed
they were waylald, robbed, and their horse
and buggy used for the escape Of their mur.
derers from Richmond. His wife went (ih
her cards circulated through Richmond and
other places) by the name of Lady Florence,
cIairvoyapt. Please make inquiries about
them, and do not neglect granting this re.
quest of his mother"
In a letter Of later date Mrs. Nudge writes
MAJOR Poe:
.My son left Richmond about O'Clock
in the afternoon with bis wife and child in
his buggy, expecting to get to Petersburg
about o'clock that evening. He bad sent
the Wednesday previous to Petersburg by
express their two large trunks from 40G
Marshall street, where we bad been staying
about five weeks. parted from him Satur-
day afternoon to return to my home and
children in Mobile. He put me on the cars
in Richmond, and returned IN his buggy,
intending 10 start Immediately for Peters.
surg. The conductor of the cars said had
gotten on the wrong train, and as my son
was coming to Petersburg | stopped there.
expecting him. I waited for him until 8
o'clock, and remained there until 3 O'Clock
next day. LEFT note for him at the Boil
lipgbrook Hotel. sent one to the City Hotel,
and then left for FarmvIIIe, and on Monday
n
Ste If he had LETT, and to Petersburg to see
il be had arrived.
81 cannot hear from him.
81 know some fearful accident has hap
pened.
Il cannot leave for my home in Mobile
until hear from my son. For heavens sake
help me to find him. 1t is supposed he and
bis wife and Guild were waylaid by colored
men and robbed, for his wife wears dia.
monds OF great value, or has them with her,
and it is believed that the horse aud buggy
were used by the robbers in their flight from
Richmond. The horse is genie and as swift
as a racer. My son refused 800 for it ut the
Richmond races. His wife is very cele earated,
and makes great deal OF money-ten
or twenty dollars, and sometimes more,
day or at least did when in Mo-
bie is far from prepOsSessing or good
looking, bas been very unfortunate for the
last year, is lame, and had cancer cured in
Rome; it came during the year; bad both
arms broken. She could use them and drive
her horse in Richmond in the last month four
or tlye miles at time. She talks about her mo-
ney and diamonds too much IN the presence
of negroes, and this, l think. is the cause Of
| their disappearance-too familiar with them
Before | lett saw three c0lored men stand
| ing opposite the buggy talking in great
| earnestncSs. Last night was u night
Of misery to me. / dreamed four col
| ored men were coming towards me, each
| with pistol, and long way back was {
horse and buggy, and this l dreamed oveI
| three times"
Mrs. Nudge writes great deal more thar
this on the sahject, and states that she il
seventy, her son twenty-nine, and that be-
son was married to "Lady Florence" il
Chicago about year ago, and that her sol
belonged to three Societies in Mobile, ant
| "was collector of all OF tbcm-done all TIT
| writing" She further states that she oWD
the nrm in Prince Edward known as White
Hall. once occupied by Senator Edgar Allan
| LADY Florence" is known to numOel
| of ladies and gentlemen near Richmond wht
! visited her "to have their fortunes told" II
is scarcely possible that the father, mother
and child have been murdered, rs in th
| vicinity it would have been difficult to hav
concealed crime Of that magnitude.
If Lady Florence" is not murdered i
| will doubtless be refreshing to her TO read he
mot her-in-law's description OF her, as above