Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1882-10-06
cHlvALRoUs MINERS.
How Two Young Chicago Girls
g Were Saved From Peril,
Taken to a Mining Camp by a Bad Woman
and Twice Rescued From Their
4 Il Abductor-A Plot for q
. a Drama.
OTHER wIcKEDNEss REPORTED

CHICAGO, October 5.-The particulars OF
the abduction of two little girls on street
in Chicago, and their rescue from the
hands of a man and woman in Michigan,
make situation for a Western play. On
the night of the reception and welcome
home of Mayor Harrison, two girls, each
thirteen years old, were on State street COM
| mingling their welcome with the mass OF
humanity which was out on that evening.
They met woman whom they had neYes
seen before, and at once fell In with ro-
seate proposition to go to Michigan and
work in q hotel for five dollara week.
| All went to a train together that night, and
| the
Woman Bought Their Tickets.
The parents of the girls, who are said to be
| industrious and respectable people on the
| North Side. reported their missing ones to
| the police. The day after the departure
| man came in the car where the woman ana
| children were, and he was presented TO
| them as the woman's husband. That night
they arrived at the pointof thedestlnation,
| Crystal Falls, Mich, which is one Oh the
| new towns of that section, 800 miles DIS
| tant from here. It's population IS safd TO
be similar to that which gave Poker Flat
| celebrity, or akin to the characters in
"Bacheior's Gulch." The majority OF the
men are miners-a kind of diamond In the
rough-while the minority is represented
/ by a class of men for whom there seems 70
| be no more appropriate name than roughs
| The latter are the ones who encourage such
creatures as the woman who took the two
! children from Chicago
Rough Diamonds to the Rescue
The night after the arrival in Crystal
| Falls the woman began to prepare the little
ones for their parts in the play Oh rum,
which was her sole occupation. 1t was
given out that there was to be dance
! The woman had arrived with two Chicago
sports, and the roughs began to arrange
| their toilets preparatory to playing their
parts. The little ones were decked out as
| they had never been decked before. The
web was woven. and the butterflies tiutttr-
| ed before it unC onsciously. The diamonds
| in the rough-the hardy miners OF the set
tlements,,heard OF the game, ana Wita 70
| that quick sense OF justice characteristic Oh
such peope, they went to the dance, un.
hidden guests, and ordered every rough In
the room to
Throw Up His Hands;
and there was twinkling of hands instead
| of feet in an instant. The miners took the
| children, leaving the admonition that pur-
| suit would not be pleasant. The old spider
| and her companion skunk away in the dark
ness, and the dance broke up at an early
| hour. The children were taken to hotel ana
q lawyer employed to proceed legally: One
| of the miners remarked that he "reekoned
! il was better TO go accordln' to law as. far as
| it was necessary, and il the law failed they
would settle the case in their own way"
On the following morning while the nee
essary legal consultation was going on, q
| party of roughs drove to the hotel, went In
| at the back door, took the children out be-
| fore they were aware Of the character OF
the men, put them in wagon and
Drove Rapidly Away.
| The movement was so bold that even the
| men accustomed to the quick work of
| scoundrels, did not realize the situation
| until the abductors were several miles
| ahead. A posse was organized, and the
pursuit was begun by men who meant
business. The wagon containing its human
cargo was overtaken and surrounded. The
| fear of endangering the lives of the two
| girls is all that saved the lives of their abb
ductors, who when they saw their situation
| fed. The children were returned to
| Crystal Falls, and faithful watch placed
about the house. The Chief OF Police In
| Chicago was notified, and Detective Dennis
Simmons was detailed to go after them.
When they were given into his custody,
they seemed to realize for the first time the
Danger which They Had Encountered.
| Whey were anxious to return home, and
their first knowledge Of the dangerous
footballs of this great world will probably
remain warning to them the remainder
of their existence, and keep them at home.
When the detective boarded the train with
the little ones, he supposed his perils were
over. But the hyenas were on his track,
and at near station they come to the
coach in which he was sitting, and glared
/ at him and the little ones whom he was
protecting. 1t was the determined look OF
| Simmons, backed by gun that never fail
ed when it was wanted, together with the
short stoppsge of the train, which pre-,
vented them from attempting to carry out
a tbild attempt to capture the girls. Even
when the train pulled away they looked
after it like evil beasts, and rode away re-
luctantly.
The children were returned to their
homes on the North side, but for reasons
which the detectives seem te think are
wise and good their names are withheld
from the press. The name OF the procuress
is also withheld, for reasons more satisfac'
tory and better.