The Worthington advance., 1879-05-15
TWICE MISSING,
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latest S"cf"f Sensation ia Utica, ". Y.--
"y*fr'fo"S 41cfi""S of the Daughter Of a.
Prominent Church Deacon.
Utica was ooubly blest with social sensations
last week. Following fast on the heels Of the
wedding Ut Senator Conkline's daughter comes
thunder-clap which browns the peal Of we'd
ding-bells, scatters the orange blossoms and
piunges one of our most respected families into
mourning. Dr. Ira ID. Hopkins is deacon in
the Tabernacle Baptist church and !. physician
| enjoying large practice. He ia u brother of
the postmaster Of Utica and owns five houses
on fashionable street. The doctors Oldest
daughter Miss Jennie, is seventeen, tall. re-
inarkabty lnatured and a bouncing brunette
beanty. toi several months past she has been re-
| ceiving the attentions of Young gentlemen
named Harrington the son of prominent
builder of New York City, who is now en-
gagged in erecting the new club house for the
Union League Club.
Not long after, one Sunday evening, Miss
Jennie was missed from her home She left
with the expressed intention of going to
church. She occupied her father Dew. but
lett shortly before the service was concluded
! and was seen no more that night. The anxiety
Of her parents and friends was very great. and
| increased the following day and Monday night
The facts were made known to the police and
their aid WAS invoked. Various theories we're
advanced t" account for her strange disappear
| ance. 1t was surmsed that she had been alb
Quoted; that she had been outraged and robbed.
or had committed suicide.
Tnescay morning early she entered her faith
| er's house, hungry and exhausted. When aues-
| TONED she said she had spent a day and two
| nights in young Harrington's company and
that they had escaped detection by hiding in
| some evergreen clumps near the cemetery. She
told story extremely suggestive of Paul and
Virginia. OF Don Juan and Haidec, of Platonic
| love and taffy.
Harrington was arrested and, after some pres
sure, gave the police another version f the
| matter, which proved to be the correct one. DIR,
Hopkins, as the senior Deacon of the Tabernacle
Baptist church, carried key which admit ted
him to the pastors study. Before leaving
home Oh the Sunday night in question, the fair
Jennie had secured the key, and, "a soon as the
church was deserted, had with Harrington tax
en- possession ot the sanctum. Dr. Hopkins BE-
gan proceedings against Harrington, charging
him with the abduction but as soon as the r. al
facts were developed, the deacon withdrew. the
case, and exerted himself to hush the scandal.
A private instructor was obtained for Miss
Jennie, while her lover went to New York. On
| Monday last he was summoned to Utica as a
witness, Jennie had been appriscd of his com.
| Ing, and Monday night she was again missing
Dr: Hopkins Immediately began search
| which was continued with vigor for forty five
hours. The compile were traced to hotel in an
outlying village, but at this point they seemed
to have doubled on thei, pnrsuers, and taken
. train on the line Of the Central Hudson
1t is surmised that they have gone East
Detectives are engaged OH the chase, and a tel.
esraph received this morning favors the helict
| that the runaWays will be in custody befre
many hours. Miss Hopkins is an accom- npliahed
musician, and has been prominently before the
public as vocalist, Her father threatens tc
execute vengeance upon the gay New Yorker
who has plucked the bird from the parents
nest. The case is a bonanza for the gosh,
club, ~ the facts connected with the previous
escapade IN the PASTORS study have just be-
come public property,
Later-Miss Jennie Hopkins and William
Harrington have been heard from. They ar.
in Little Falls, Herkemer county. They wer.
married this afternoon. Deacon Hopkins ha.
returned his borrowed revolver, and will wor
snip In the Tabernacle on Sunday usual
Beta even that he will not remember hi,
| son -ln-laW in his nraYIrs