Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1877-02-16

son learn that her little guest was Mary
Isham Keith, the daughter of her once
intimate friend. She Immediately com
municated with the child's grandfather
in New York, by whom she was
informed Of the supposed death of Mrs.
Keith, and who assumed the guardian
ship of the desolate little orphan
ONCE MORE AT LARGE.
After seven years of this incarcera-
ton. supposed to be dead and buried,
Mrs. Keith was at last successful in OBJ
tanning an interview with Archbishop
kendrick. the successor in Office other pro-
tector, before whom she threw herself on
her knees and besought his interference
in her favor. The kindly old preate
called an ecclesiastical council for the
investigation of the circumstances at
tending her detention and it was sum
marily decided to remove her from the
institution. Mr.. Lovegrow, her pre-
tended father, was accordingly Summoned,
and took her to his own house in Balti-
more her persistent denial of his paternity
being treated as hallucnation. Her bad
health rendering it impractcable that she
should undertake the journey unattended,
Mr.. Sanxay was made acquainted with
the astonishing fact that Mrs. Keith was
still living, aud promptly responded to
the summons by escorting her to New
York.
KIDNAPPED AGAIN AND Is YEARS DEAD.
A year of rest now interviewed the
mother, like one itself from the dead,
and the child now almost young lady,
once more reunited Measures had been
instituted to prosecute the parties en-
gagged in the conspiracy, when Mrs
Keith's shattered physique gave way
under the reaction AS the only means
Of saving her life her physician advised
trip to Virginia, and Williamsburg, on
the Peninsula, was selected as her place
of residence. She had but put her hand
in the lions mouth again. Within six
weeks after her arrival, with the con-
niyance of DR. James Bolton, her
attending physician, she was again kid
mapped and immured in the asylum in
that city, where she fingered eighteen
years, reported dead, and baffled in all
her attempts to communicate with her
relatives, until the arrival of Major Cen
eral Hancock on the Peninsula and the
organization of military government
it that district enabled her to appeal to
an authority that could be neither banled
nor resisted. A military commission
was convened for the examination of her
case, at which the General presided and
of which Colonel Joseph Anderson was
a member This commission, after
thorough legal and medical investigation,
pronounced Mrs Mary Elizabeth Keith
perfectly sane and compOs mentis and
her incarceration one of the high-handed
outrages of the nineteenth century. On
various pretexts, however, she was still
detained month after month at the in
| stitution until tho menaced removal of
the officials connected with it rendered
further evasion perilously impracticable
Tier relatives were now by order Of
Gen Hancock, once more notified that
a woman, incurred as dead for eighteen
years, was still living; her brother, r..
Selby Sanxay, responded to the letter,
and Mrs. Keith was removed to the
residence of her sister, Mrs. Emily
Bate, of Petersburg, Va, who received
her as one risen from the dead Here
she was again reunited to her long lost
daughter, maturely beautiful woman,
plunged in deep sorrow for the death of
her faace. Robert Bruce, who had
served as as officer in the Union army.
Her father, who had meanwhile removed
to Virginia and become the proprietor Of
a plantation at Blackwater near Peters
burg, died within year after her
restoration. end Mrs Sanxay few
months later Her daughter married
and removed to her present residence in
Atlanta.
LAST ADVENTURE.
A local cDteute consequent upon the
murder several years since Of planter
named Friend by his former slaves,
whom he had treated with extreme
cruelty, resulted in third disastrous
adventure Mrs. Keith's rash enthu-
siasm in defense Of the nogrocs in the
excited condition Of the public mind,
placed her life in peril, and she decided
to effect her escape from the neiglbor-
hood Secretly taking passage for New
York, she hastily collected her most
important papers, including title deeds,
box containing the captains commits
Qinn and ,ron,ot;nn aud otLo. ,,oonsoo...
documents. Retaining the box in her
own possession, she sent her maid,
Elizabeth Walker by name, to the
steamer with the valisc, under orders to
await the arrival Of her mistress Hav-
ing completed the arrangements, she set
out to pay last visit to her priest, by
whom she was informed that her in
tended departure was suspected, and a
mob had gathered at the landing BY
his advice, she accepted the profcred
protection of the White Cap sisters, con-
signing the commission box to the care
of Helen Givers, an old family servant.
All efforts to trace either Of these parties
and obtain possession Of the missing
documents have thus far proved abor-
tive. Az length, after more than
years seclusion with the sisters, Mrs.
Keith left Blackwater secretly. and, with
many Offerings and visits by the way,
arrived in New York. Such, succinctly
told and stripped Of all unimportant
incidents, is the story Of the soft-spoken
and silken-haired lady. who, only the
other afternoon, was driven from the