Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-31

sign. Nobody believed her, of course.
The tram stopped The conductor stood near
her, having told one of the brakemen to call a
carriage, and the custodians caught each an
arm of the lady. She resisted for moment,
gave little shrek, and then seemed to faint.
One of the men caught her up in his arms once
more, saying Poor lady'' bore her to the car
rlage, and while his companion held open the
door, placed her inside; both got in after her;
dashed forward and disappeared in the dark
ness, many passengers talking of and plying
the pretty but unfortunate young woman who
had gone to the State asylum at Utica.
The train arrived at Albany in due season,
and the devoted husband, who had been at the
station for near an hour, was impatiently
waiting to receive his wife. He waited and
looked in vain. Everybody was gone and still
she was not there He was directed to the con-
ductor OF the drawing room car, who on learn
ing of the appearance OF the lady sought for,
perceived at once that she must be other
than Mrs. -, who had been pronounced in
sane. He remembered, too, that she had said
but one of the false guardians had explained
that meeting her husband was one of her de-
lusions; that her husband WAS in Boston and
had himself engaged them to take
her to Utica. The revelations made
to the husband were terrifying of
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be lost, and the conductor was most anxious,
as any right-minded man would be under like
circumstances, to atone, so far as possible, for
his fatal. though not unnatural blunder. The
latter secured an engine and, with the dis
mayed husband, started at the earliest prac-
ticable moment at full speed for Utica. Ar
irving there about o'clock in the II orning,
they could get no trace of the men; but they
discovered the hackman (whom the conductor
knew that had been engaged by the pretended
custodians. He said the men had told him
nothing of insane person in
an asylum, but had ordered him to drive
to a certain house in a certain part of the
town, and he had obeyed unquestioningly. He
would show the conductor the house, and in a
few minutes he and the Bostonian, who preserved
outward calmness despite his terrible excite
ment, were at the door of a house in the out
skirts Of the town, where the hackman had
gone the evening previous. He had noticed
that one of the men had carried woman in,
but he had thought nothing of it. as he had
been told that she i'll, and it was none of
his business anyhow.
The inmates were aroused not without diff
Guilty, and frightened by the intense manner OF
the husband, admitted that lady had come
there the evening previous in company with
the gentlemen (such was the language as re.
ported) that they had been shown to room
and that the gentlemen had gone away soon
after. saying that the lady was tired. and not
very well, and desired to stay till morning
The proprietress of the house declared she had
never seen the gentlemen before; had nc
k. owledge of them; that gentlemen were in
the habit of visiting her house with ladies' but
that she never asked any questions. AS may
be inferred, the house was of disreputable
character, and the intelligence of a kind tC
make the agonized husband fear the worst.
He went to the room directed, and. to his
horror, discovered his poor wife almost nude
lying in bed, nearly insensibIe, and well-nigf
deprived of her reason. She did not recognize
her husband for some time, and when she did
her mind wandered off again, and, being once
more brought to herself went into Mysteries
and tainted from the violence of her convul
sions. She had been drugged in the carriage
chloroform had probably been administered
taken to the den of vice, her person outraged
and all her valuables even to her articles OF
wearing apparel, stolen. She had been
richly dressed Cher husband is q
man of means), and had good deal OF
jeWelry on her person, among other things a
pair of valuable earrings, containing large sol.
itaire diamonds, in her ears. From the mo-
ment that she had been lifted from the cars
into the carriage she had only semi-lucid in
tervals, everything that had happened seeming
like a terrible nightmare. She thought and
her husband thought SO, too, that she would
never recover from that dreadful shock to the
nerves. AS soon as he could get some decent
raiment he took her where she could be prop.
erly cared for, and when partially recov
cred, removed her to her own home. 1t is said
that she has never been herself since that fear
full night, and that in all likelihood she never
will be- Her distressing experience almost un.
hinged her reason, and in her sleep she otter
starts and cries out as its memory returns tC
her in dreams.
The husband has made every effort, consist
ent with privacy to discover the villains who
played the part of the custodians of his wife
but all to no purpose. He has, it is asserted
spent large sum in EMPLOYING detectives but
they have gained evidence that could con
tribute trustworthy clue. The
scoundrels, according to accounts, seem to have
been lost sight of, as if the earth had opened
and swallowed them up. Various traces and
PR spects of detecting the criminals have beer
reported from tine to time, but nothing has
come of them. The miscreants have so entir e.
ly vanished that it is surmised that they mus
have left the country. Their original ant
primary object, no doubt, was money. They
were probably attracted by her diamonds
while she waiting in the station at Rome
and formed the plan they completely car
ricd out before they got upon the cars.