Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-06-30
STRANGE AFFAIR.
Mysterious Incident that Occurred on the
Southern Route
Tucson JournaI, June 25th. j

Tucson Journal, June 25th.l
Hon. J. X. Luttrell tells of very singular
and mysterious affair which occurred on the
Atchisop, Topeka and Santa Fe train which
left Kansas City on last Saturday night, and
on which Mr.. Luttrell was passenger. Be-
fore the train left that depot a very hand.
some and genteel-looking lady entered the
Pullman car, accompanied by lady and gen.
tlemap, who bade the first lady an affection
ate adieu just before the train moved off.
The car was very crowded, and the next
people whom Mr.. Luttrell noticed were two
very ill-mannered and rough-looking men,
who had some loud words with the
conductor about berths. When Mr..
Luttrell finally event to the berth to
which he had been assigned, he found it still
in the form of seats and occupied by the we'll
dressed lady and gentleman, who Mr.. Lut-
trelt afterwards learned to be Colonel
White. The two were engaged in conversa-
ton, and Colonel White was giving the lady
some information regarding her ticket, which
called for passage to point in New Mexico.
Not wishing to disturb the conversation. Mr..
Luttrell went to the porter's room, at the
end of the car, to indulge in smoke before
retiring for the night. About three quarters
of an hour elapsed, the train having reached
the Kansas border, when the palace-car con-
'duc.or came into the smoking-room
IN COMPANY WITH THE LADY,
Who seemed to be trifie bewildered, and
directed her to sit down. Before Mr.. Lut-
trell could recover from his astonishment at
such treatment of an evident lady, the palace
car conductor was joined by the conductor in
charge of the train and the two rough-look-
ing passengers. before mentioned. At this
point Mr. Luttrell noticed that the train was
coming to step. and that the two rough
to take the lady from the train Several
other passengers had meanwhile gathered on
the scene. and the lady, protesting bitterly;
had been forced through the door to the plat
form Of the car. At this stage Of the pro-
csedines Mr.. Luttrell interfered and de-
mandsd of the train conductor what it all
meant. The latter said that the two men
were officers, and demand was made on
them to show their warrant of authority for
thus taking a lady into custody. Without
replying, the stouter Of the two men seized
the lady by the waist, and sprang from the
car to the ground, followed by his CON-
panion. At the same moment the lady's
baggage was thrown from the car, and the
train commenced to move. off. Mr.. Luttreil
descended to the lower step of the car and
took look around at the locality. Not a
light, not even house was to be seeR-noth-
ing but the low shrubbery of the river bot
tomg. Re-entering the car, Mr. Lutt,ell and
the other passengers who had witnessed
the strange proceeding-one of whom
was Ben. Morgan, of Tucson-earnestly
DEMANDED AN EXPLANATION
From the conductor, but could elicit abso-
lutely nothing from that official. The next
day and portion Of the day succeeding the
palace car conductor, the porter. and the
" peanut vendor, were subjected to gen.
eral pumping, eliciting nothing but the in
formation from the latter that he had known
of the lady in Kansas City for seven or
eight years, and that she was member
of the best society OF that town. At Las
Vegas dispatch was found in a local paper
{the same dispatch appeared in the Tucson
papers of the same date) detailing the finding
of the corpses of several murdered people
near Kansas City. and hazarding the opinion
that an organized gang of murderous thugs
were operating in that vicinity. Thor
oughIy aroused. the passengers drew up a
statement of the whole affair, signed their
names and postoffice addresses to it, and sent
it back by mail to the Ne,cs of Kansas City.
Mr. Luttrell states that the abduction was
evidently premeditated. the train. hands, from
the engineer down, being parties thereto. for
everything worked as Systematically as ma
chineTy, and the entire affair did not consume
one-quartsr of the time that it requires to re-
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