National Republican., 1883-01-15
Some st. Louis People Disposed to Doubt Miss
GarrisOnS Abduction Story.
But the Reporters Agree that She's as
Pretty as a Picture,
She Says She was Told She was Held for Ransom
from the Rich GarrisOns,
But She Seems TO Have Been n Very
willing Prisoner.
Special Dispatch TO The World.

her strange disappearance. Her story, pub
lished in papers this morning, was not gencE-
ally thought probable, and investigations
made to-day in the ncighborhood of the house
where she was stopping havo brought out
statements from disinterested parties which
go very strongly TO support the theory that
the young lady was not really abducted. On
'change to-day opinion leaned very decidedly
in this direction, and the action of Jacob
Ewald, the newly elected president, in oppo-
sired yesterday to call an indig-
nation meeting of the body and cause
large rewards TO be offered for the recovery
of the girl and the punishment of her abduc-
tors was generally commended to-day in very
high terms. 1t is admitted that the future
course of the Garrison family toward the al
legged abduction of the girl will afford some
criterion of their real faith in the abduction
theory. The police to-day met the case boldly
when they caused to be published statement
that if the Garrisons desire to prosecute the
men in whose company the girl is supposed to
have passed the week, they can readily arrest
them, and will do so at the shortest notice.
Miss Garrison to-day acting under the advice
of a lawyer granted an interview to Il reporter.
She was found in n sitting room upstairs, which
occupies the whole front of the house. She was
reclining in an easy Chair,with her mother be-
side her, and If any doubt of her thorough in
nocencc had existed before IL would have dis
appeared at sight other face. She is not merely
avery pretty girl, but one who impresses you at
once with u sense of her honesty and purity.
She is unusually tall, long limbcd, and 1.-the;
her face is even younger than her years, and
the expression is that of q school girl. She
gives promise of developing into magnif-
cent beauty, but she looked very pale and
wearied, and the signs Of exhaustion and de-
preston were clearly to be noted in her cx-
preston, voice, and attitudes, Not strong
face nor resolute one, perhaps, but very
gentle and very winning, with some traces of
color in her checks, light brown hair combed
with the customary bang, dark eyebrows, and
n heavy fringe of black cyelashes shading her
hazel eyes. She said that the statements that
appeared in the morning papers as coming
from her were substantially correct. She had
walked down the road to the point opposite
the saloon, when two men came out and spoke
to her, asking where she was going, She an
swered them that she was going to the con-
vent. Then the men continued talking and
walked on beside her. She remembers one of
them saying TO her:
"Oh, yes; we know you are going to the
convent, but if you will come along with us
we will take you to nicer place"
Then she was suddenly chl0roformed and
remembered nothing more until the found
herself that sanie evening in the house ON
Washington street.
"Do YOU remember distinctly your ox-
pcrienco in the house during all the time you
were there"
NO; my recollection is not at all distinct
] know that smust have been kept more or
less under the influence of drugs"
did you go out of the house at all while
you We're ?"
81 have q confused recollection that went
out on the street one evening in company
with the two men, but my recollection is not
at all clear about it,"
"was any indignity offered you while you
wcre therep
"No, was simply treated as prisoner
Their object was, no doubt, to make money
out of il. They found out my name from the
satchcl / carried, or rather they supposed
was Miss Lulu Garrison, as it was her satChe
which | had with me. They told me that
they knew who l was, and heard them talk
ing one day about the possibility of making
money out of the rich GarrisOns." "A
mo violence was shown to you what
ever?"
"Onc of the men carried pair of revolvers
with him. ! suppose IL was to irightcn me-"
"What kind of prison We're you in?"
81 had my room to myself at all times, and
when the men were out was free to use both
rooms The two rooms We're kept locked on
outside, and was told that if opened the
the doors l would find the downstairs door
moro securely fastened"
out in the street by yourself, as stated by Mrs
Lcvy?"
"Only once, when went out, as I said
with the men. ] ate very little; indeed, |
think lived chiefly on coffee"
"And you are certain that your iailers had
noother object than to secure reward for
yOur surrendor?"
:" / am very certain of that, because when
heard them talking about the rich Garrsons
they said, 'Wo don't want to hurt her. They
were not unkind to me, and did not molcst
me in any way except to look in now and
then. One Of them told me that if they got
into trouble through this / should get into
trouble too. Then | was afraid that they
might be doing other things that made them
afraid, and believe that one of them left town
on the day beGore--that is, on the day before
yesterday. One of them said that the de-
tectives had got after them, and about o'clock
lie came in and said to nc; Good-by; l am
going off,"
"When did you hear of your release"
ait was during the day time Of Friday, but
] was told that / must not 90 out until after
dark, and that must not 30 out Of the front
door after dark. was allowed to 60 out by
the back way and went TO the police station"
This is the story of Miss Garrison On the
other hand, Mrs. Levy, the woman in whose
house the girl was kept, tells whaO scems to
be straight and frank story which Is
strengthened by the fact that, though she
lives in very hard neighbOrhOOd, the police
gave her credit for being an honest and de-
cent woman. She asserts that the girl was
brought to her house last Saturday afternoon
by two of four young men who had rented
two rooms in the second story of her house
the week before. Tho pair represented that
the girl was the wife of Frank Moore, one of
the four, who was then absent. Soon aGer their
arrival Moore returned and ut first denied TO
Mrs. Levy that the girl was his wife, but
after seeing his partners he said that she was
his wife. From this time OH Miss Garrison
occupied the front room, while two of the
men, occupied tho rear one During the
whole week Mrs. Levy asserts that the girl
came and went as she pleased, sometimes CO.
ing out alone, at other times in company with
one or the other OF the four young men, Du-
ring her stay she was in good spirits and
drank wine and smoked cigarettes with her
male companions On Friday morning she
says tho girl went ont alone, In this state
ment the woman is cOrrOborated by the tcsti-
mOny of impartial witnesses. Mrs. Levy as
serts that the girl went out to her meals twice
day, and the cashier and the walters at
Sprague's restaurant, close by, describe her
visits there, giving n description of n girl
which tallics SO exactly with her per-
sonal appearance that there can hardly
be doubt of the Identification. They
say that sometimes she came and took
her meals with n male companion, and
at other times alone, hut at all times
she seemed perfectly unrestainod and made
no attempt TO conceal her identity, never oven
wearing veil. Her dcmeanOr they describe
a VprV iOllV. and shp pro1tpd tha innraggion