The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1883-06-14
lnonitomoe pilot.
THURSDAY, JUNE IA, 1888.
A FIENDISH SCHEME.
A Young Girls Adventures in New York
Oity-Decoyed Into Disreputable
House. Timely Rescue.

A few weeks ago a young lady, whom
for convenience l will call Miss D., was
walking through one of the upper and
respectable streets of New York. when
her attention was arrested by a human
hand thrust through a broken pane of
glass in the window of house. The
hand was moving, and as Miss d. passed
it dropped crumpled piece of paper to
the sidewalk at her feet. On it was writ
ten, as with burnt match, these words:
"For Gods sake, get me out Of this house
before 7nidnightr'
Startled by the most singular occur
renee, Miss ID. turned Immediately back
to her home, and reported it to her
father. After some necessary delay her
father went 10 the police station, and an
officer was sent with him to make an in
vestigation.
On reaching the house and ringing
the bell, the men were received with
some surprise, and informed that it
was private house; and their story
was listened to with apparent astonish-
ment, certainly with most evident
signs of incredulity. The lady of the
house did not know what to make of
such a story as that! The officer could
come and look where he liked.
The two men went in. They found
no suspicious appearances. Ascending
to the room through the broken window
of which the human hand had been seen,
it proved 20 be unoccupied.
There was no broken pane of glass in
the window. Butthe officer did quietly
notice that the putty inclosing one of
the panes was fresh, as if the pane had
been recently set. Discovering nothing
that could warrant an arrest or fur
Their inquiry, the men were finally COM
PEELED TO 60 away.
But they were not satisfied. Suspicion
remained. Later in the day, therefore,
they returned to the house, and proceed
ed to make a more thorough search of
the premises. And this was what at last
they found
Down in the cellar three young girls,
half dead with fright. One of them
said she was the girl who had broken
the pane of glass in the window of the
room where she was locked up, and
had dropped the crumpled piece of
paper with the writing on it to the
lady who was passing. And this was
the story she went on to tell to the
officer
In the morning of that day, she said,
she was going through that street, when
the door of this house suddenly opened,
and well-dressed and entirely respect
woman rushed out, in a
state of great excitement, and called to
her. My child is taken suddenly and
violently ill., said the woman, 1.-THE
servants are out, and 1 have nobody to
send for the doctor. Would you be will
ing to go?"
Who would, who could refuse such
a request, under such circumstances?
Certainly, the girl said she would GO.
''Well, come in, them" said the
woman, land l will give you the doc
tors address,
The girl, little suspecting the terrible
trap which had been set for her, as
cended the steps and went in. No soon
er was she in than the door was sprung
upon her! In an instant the truth
flashed upon her mind. She was con-
Quoted to the room above and locked
in, like victim to be delivered up to
sacrifice. In her horror over her sit
uation. she broke the glass, and threw
her cry for help out of the window. 1t
was her only chance, and it saved her.
Her companions in the cellar had
had somewhat similar experiences.
What a den it was! What devils there
are in human form! A few hours more,
and it would have been too late. And
this in plain daylight, in respectable
thoroughfare, in the year of our Lord
1888
Thus it is that innocent young souls
are hurled into the waters and swal-
lowed up with no one to save. How
many mysterious disappearance
receive by such an incident as this their
eXplanatiOn.-COn QrelQtiOlaList.