Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-05-24
FROM A FILTRATION.
The Celebrated Concord case Ends in
Mil waukee--Chasfn Runaway
Girl EOnr Weeks.
Milwaukee Journal.

Milwaukee Journal.
A fathers four weeks search for an
erring daughter, extending from Con-
cord, n. H., to this city, was concluded
yesterday, the officers finding the young
girl occupying apartments in a motor
ious house on the West Side. Four
weeks ego society circles In q fashion
abe part of the city Of Concord were
thrown into ferment OF excitement
by report that Miss Florence Burton,
the II year-old daughter of j. l.. Bur-
ton, Well-known banker and railway
magnate of that city, had mysteriously
disappeared from her home under cir
cumstances to warrant the supposition
that she had eloped with young COM
mercial traveller, a chance acquaintance
who did not have the best reputation.
The newspapers published long &C
counts Of the case, and finally the as,
sistance of the police the local detec-
tives was invoked, but every effort
made by the authorities to discover her
whereabouts was unsuccessful.
After several days had elapsed and
nothing been heard of the young girl,
the sriet -strcken father and mother
went to Boston in hopes Of getting
some trace of the couple, the supposi-
ton that their daughter had eloped,
being made certainty by discover
les made by detectives employed up
on the case. In that city after several
days spent in fruitless search, the
first clue to their whereabouts was
found, it being known that young
man answering to the description of
the betrayer, accompanied by lady
whom he called his wife, had stopped
for several days at an uptown hotel,
where they registered as J. l.. Cu5h-
ing and wife. They had, however,
left the day previous to the arrival of
the parents. Thus the chase began,
and was continued from day to day
and from city to city. Brief visits
were made to Buffalo, Cleveland, Gin
cinnati and Dayton. At each of these
places something was learned regard
ing them, and at each hotel where
they stopped the man had given diff
ferent name, but the young woman was
p.rsistently called his wife in each in
stance.
In Chicago the father and mother
for several days lost trace of the two,
and much valuable time was wasted In
an enoeavor to recover the lost clue.
Again it was found but day too late
the two in some manner becoming In
formed of the fact that the girls parents
were in the city. After some time it was
learned that a man and woman having
the general appearance of the CONNER
cial agent and his victim had purchased
tickets for this city at the window of a
down town ticket office, and had left
for Milwaukee on an early morning
train. Here the father and mother
came.
Arrived in.the city, the first move
made was to consult the officers of the
humane society, and they were imme-
diately Interested in the case Visits
were made to the various hotels, but in
vain. Tue houses of ill.repute were
next virited, and In an establishment of
this kind well known to the police the
young girl, abandoned by her betray-
er, Vas at last found. The parents
were notified and arrangements at
once made TO visit her. When the
daughter was told of the weary search
made by the parents since she aban-
doned home and friends, she broke
down, begging piteously to be taken
away and placed where they could not
see her. The me sting was most toucR-
ling, and after brief consultation the
girl consented to return home, the par
ty leaving the city in the afternoon for
the east.
Miss Burton, the heroine of the es-
capade, IS romantic young LADY, IL
years old. She ha a pretty face, sur
rounded by wreath of sunny curls,
| welcomed figure and a taste for dress,
| coupled with charming manner and re-
fined speech. Previous to leaving
home the young lady moved in the
highest society in Concord, the family
residing in an elegant mansion in
highly fashionable part of the city. She
SAID she met Fred l.. Bixby, the man
with home she left home on a train be-
tween Conc ord and a suburban town.
A Irritation was commenced at that
time which resulted in secret meet
ings, and later In TIE abandonment by
the girl of home and friends. When
they arrived in Milwaukee the couple
sugbt furnished apartments .and rooms
were secured where the girl WAS discov-
cred by the officers. A few days later,
having tired Of his conquest, he aban-
doned her. Mr.. Burton, the father, is
banker and heavy s:ock-broker in
an eastern railway, and Is very wealthy.
de threatens TO shoot the betrayer OF
his daughter on sight.
servant girl fell on bracket
Her skull she nearly did crack it,