Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1877-07-10
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Readers Of the Herald will doubt
less recall a paragraph published in
its columns on the afternoon of
June IL last, and thence widely
copied, relating the circumstances,
as far as then known, attendant
upon the sudden and mysterious
disappearance from home of a
young man named Seth Arthur
Pratt, twenty-three years old, a
stepson Of Mr.. Solomon Lowell, of
North Weymouth. Since that time,
and until late hour last Monday
night, the friends Of the missing
man were unable to obtain the
slightest clew to his whereabouts.
Hearing Of his sudden disappear
ance at home of his own accord, a
Herald representative visited his
residence last evening with a view
to getting at the story of his wan
derings. BY advice of his physician,
DR.. Blodgett, of Boston, the young
man is not permitted to see stran-
gers; but his stepfather willingly
related to the writer the following
account of the young mans jour
neyings during his absence from
the paternal roof, as gathered for
the most part from the lips of Mr..
Pratt himself since his return:
On the evening Of Friday, June
s, at about $50 o'clock, young
Pratt left his home to walk to East
Weymouth to call upon q young
lady with whom he had been for
some time keeping company. He
arrived at her residence IN due sea-
son and spent the evening with her,
leaving her between twelve and one
o'clock on Saturday morning. The
young lady states that she noticed
nothing unusual in his manner at
that time, he appearing perfectly
rational and at ease. lie walked
Immediately home, entered the
house unknown to any one, changed
his clothes, packed up one or two
extra suits, several overcoats, an
umbrella, boots-in short, a gene
raj outfit for an extended trip-and,
with about $3.50 in his pocket, re-
sumed his walk to Quincy, where he
took the first train for Boston,
reaching this city at about GAO am.
Arrived at the Old Colony station,
he took a carriage for East Boston,
where he found the Cunarder Par.
thia just ready to get under way.
He rushed on board, secured his
berth without registering his name
at the company's Office in this city,
(Which accounts for his departure
not being discovered by the
detectives who subsequently ex-
amined the list of departures),
and in a few hours found him
self on the broad Atlantic, head
ing for Liverpool. When about
two or three days out, he "came to
his Senses" as he expresses it, and
realized with deep regret what he
had done. All his past acts since
leaving his home on the Friday
night previous seemed a hazy, misty
blank-he could remember nothing
distinctly. However, he was "in
for it, at all events, and there
was nothing for him to do but to
go on to Liverpool. The Parthia
steamed up the Mersey river to its
pier at Liverpool on the following
Tuesday (the 19th), and he quar-
tered himself with the ships stew
ard until Wednesday afternoon,
when he took passage in the steam
er Liverpool for New York. He
landed at the latter city last Sun
day evening, and came to Boston
Monday afternoon by the Shore
Line express, arriving here at 8
pm. Crossing the city he took the
$50 train for Quincy, drove thence
to North Weymouth, and appeared
at his old home at 1915 in the
evening, He gives no reason for
this strange freak, and it is evident
his mind is partially deranged, it is
thought, from a sunstroke which
he experienced last Decoration Day.
His parents are naturally overjOyed
at his temperance.
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