The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-08-29
An Unparalleled Crime.

The New York Times prints the par
ticulars of an atrocious crime which was
committed some months ago at Utica,
in that State. Until this time the re-
voting facts have not been published,
as the family involved were 1averse to
publicity. Sometime ago the lovely
wife of wealthy gentleman of Boston
visited friends in Central New York.
At length she started on her homeward
Journey on a~train of the New York
Central Railroad, expecting to meet her
husband at Albany. She changed cars
at Rome, and took seat in the draw
ing-room coach She noticed two mid
dle-aged well dressed men behind her,
who seemed to be making her the SUBJ
ject of conversation. AS she was about
to pay the conductor for her seat, one
of the men told him to take no money
from the lady-she was in their charge,
and they would pay her fare. The lady
was terribly frightened, and denied any
knowledge of the men. The conductor,
after short talk with the men, asked
her name and residence, which she gave
him. He then took her fare from the
strangers. saying, in reply to her frantic
protest: "Madam, these gentlemen told
me your name and residence before l
asked you, and they say your friends
have intrusted you to their care, and
that you are being removed to the In
sane Asylum at Utica" The. poor
woman was wild with terror and violent
in her demonstrations of fright. The
passengers really thought her insane
She appealed to them for protection,
| but received nothing but pity. Her pre-
| tended guardians, with sorrowful faces,
told of her malady, and of the hopes of
| her friends that, under treatment at Uti-
ca. she would recover. The conductor
led her through the train to see if any
one knew her, the two ruffians follow
ing. All believed her insane-her own
hysterical actions, the plausible story of
the two men, and their very respectable
appearance, giving color to that theory
/ Soon the train drew up at Utica, the
men bore her fainting from her seat, put
her into carriage, and drove off, while
the train sped on its way. When the
cars reached Albany the husband was
waiting for his wife. He was astonish-
ed not to find her, and, when he de-
scribed the lady of his search to
the conductor, the latter knew
at once that he had made q ter
rible blunder. He procured an engine,
and the two proceeded at full speed to
Utica, where they arrived about 4 a. m
They found the hackman, who told them
that he had driven two men and 8
woman to a certain house. One of the
men said the lady was i'll, and carried
her into the house in his arms. The
husband and conductor went to the
place, and the keeper told them that the
: men had engaged a. room, and, aftel
awhile had left, saying that the lady wa:
tired and unwell, and desired to remain
until morning. The husband found his
wife almost nude and wandering il
mind. She had been drugged in thu
carriage, and then outraged and robbed
of her diamonds, and even of her wear
ing apparel. AS soon as possible sh'
was removed to her home in Boston
She has suffered terribly in mind ant
body ever since, and will probably new
er recover from the shock of that terri
BILE night. Her family have tried to keeI
the facts from the public, and mucl
money has been spent, and the best de
tectives in the East employed, to dis
cover the two villains, without success
Not a clew .to~ their identity has beef
found. The primary objeetgof themel
was probably to rob their victim OF he
money and jewelry. i.ga;ss