Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-01-15
THE STORY RETOLD.
The St. Louis Garrison Abduction Grows
Thinner with Age---It Has the Appear
ance OF Being Very L.rgely Bogus.
TSpecial Telegram to the Globe. !

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ended. Last night Miss Zerelda Garrison
was restored to her friends and family.
Never in the history of this city was so
much excitement created by published
article as that in yesterday mornings Re
publican, giving the details of Miss CARR
sons disappearance. Throughout the day
all business was stopped, and nothing was
talked of but the mysterious affair. Twelve
detectives and g platoon of police searched
the city all day and returned to headquar-
tiers at 6 O'Clock without discovering a clue.
Late in the afternoon stranger called
at the Garrison mansion, SAL Pine street,
and informed the family that for $500 he
would give information that would lead to
the restoration Of the girl He was in
stantly placed under arrest and was
pumped and bulldozed by the detectives
until he consented to show them where the
girl was confined. A carriage was pro
cured and Jumping hastily into it Detect
ives O'Neil and Stewart, with their prison
er, drove to 719 Washington street, which
locality is the very worst in the city, being
peopled largely by bad characters of both
sexes. The door was forced in, and as the
detectives entered they saw woman dis
appear out of the back door. They pur-
sued but before overtaking her the
woman ran into the Seventh street
police station, which was only a
square away, and gave herself up. She
proved to be Miss Zerelda Garrison. She
tells the following story:
when 1 stepped off the car Saturday af-
ternoon, was accosted by large man
with light hair. He asked me where I was
going, and told him to the convent. q e
said: I can take you to a better place
than the convent and at the same time
placed hand on my shoulder. I started
to run away, when handkerchief saturated
with chloroform was applied to my face,
and I suddenly became unconscious, and 1
remembered nothing, then, until I woke
up in the room on Washington street.
was kept in confinement there,
and the light haired man visited me
every day, and said that 1 was
held Tor ransom. He dictated letter to
my friends, which he compelled me to
write, but never used any harsh language
OF offered violence. He informed the
landlady of the house that was his wife,
and was partly insane, and not to pay at
tention to what I might say or do. To-
night the lady took me down to the back
door and told me to run to the station and
1 would be safe. did so, and here am"
The story of Mrs. Levi, who keeps the
house at 719 Washington street, is entirely
different, and is corroborated by a number
of other facts. She says that the young
woman came there of her own
accord, accompanied by a young
man, who represented her as
his wife, and gave the name Arnold. She
was not under any restraint whatever, and
went every day with the man and took her
meals at neighboring restaurant. A
Police Gazette and kindred literature was
found in the room, and there was every
evidence at hand that she was enjoying
herself. She read the papers every N orn-
ing. and so likewise did the landlady.
When the disappearance was published
in the Republican the landlady made an
investigation and found the name CARR
son on her handsome boarder's portmon-
ale. She charged the girl with being Miss
Garrison, and the girl denied the fact.
4 few minutes later the
landlady heard that the police
were coming and unceremoniously hustled
her fair ledger out of the back door. The
man who was with her has not yet been
found, and the man arrested by the police
at the Garrison mansion was discharged
by the advice Of the family. He was brought
up before the young lady, and she stated
that she had never seen him, and that he
had nothing to do with her abduction.
At present the city is all torn up over
the restoration and the restored. The ter
rible reputation OF the locality in which
she was found hangs like black cioad
over her fair name. The police do not be-
l;eve in the abduction story and nobody
will be prosecuted.
ANOTHER REPORT.
ST. LOUIS, No, Jan. 13.-Numerous
stories have gained circulation to-day and
tonight regarding the abduction of Miss
Garrison, who was returned to her mother
last night, which places the young lady in
a very unpleasant position. These are to
the general effect that the girl was not
abducted at all; that she went voluntarily
to the Washington avenue house with her
alleged abductors, and while there went
with them twice day to a neighboring
restaurant for meals, some of which she
paid for herself and on one occasion
went out alone and returned
to the house, and that she
was not IL duress, and could have gone
home at any time had she wanted to do So
These stories are most strenuously denied
by Miss Garrison, who persists in saying
that she was chloroformed by her captors,
retained in the Washington avenue house
By force until her disappearance was made
public, and that she believes she was kept
part of the time under the partial influence
of drugs. A reporter who visited her this
afternoon states that her physical co1di-
ton indicates great nervous exhaustion,
occasioned by excitement, or perhaps by
opiates. There are no arrests as yet, and
what gives unpleasant color to some of
these statements is the fact that the police
know who were concerned in the affair,
and yet take no action in the matter, nor
have the relatives of the young lady shown
any disposition to prosecute any one