The Morristown gazette. [volume] (Morristown, Tenn.) 1867-1920, 1883-01-24
I ST. LOUIS GIRL SENSATION


St. Louis is excited over the alb
duction and recovery of a young la
dy named Zerelda Garrison, of an
old and good family, and pupil of
the Convent Of the Sacred Heart.
She left home on the 9th of Janua-
nv to 90 the convent and did not re-
turn. Her friends supposing her at
the convent. were not uneasy until
Thursday. The sisters at the con-
vent supposing her at home, were
equally unconcerned. On Thursday
the family received a letter stating
that the girl was held for ransom.
a hue and cry was raised, and on
the 18th the girl came to the police
station in the outskirts of the city,
near the convent. She was i'll but
seems to have suffered no bodily
harm. She is n handsome girl of
seventeen, we'll dressed, and appears
TO have attracted the attention of
gang of hOodlums who infest Ca
rOndelet. She says she was accost-
cd by strange man, between the
car station and the convent, from
whom she ran, but who caught her,
putting a chloroformed handker-
chief over her head. She then lost
consciousness and when she recov-
cred, found herself in a house where
she was confined under charge of
woman until that evening. Her cap
tors sought to extOrt money from
her friends, but the vigorous search
alarmed her abductors and she was
released unframed The place of
her confinement was within block
of the police station. Since the re-
turn Of the young lady to her home
she has been laboring under nervous
prostration, but has made this state
ment:
~ hen / stepped off the car on
Saturday afternoon / was accosted
by large man, with light hair. He
asked me where | was going, and
told him to the convent. He said Il
can take you to q better place than
the convent, and at the same time
placed his hand on my shoulder.
started TO run away, when a hand
kerchief saturated with chlOroform
was applied to my face, and j sud
denly became unconscious, and re-
member nothing more until | woke
up in the room on Washington street.
| was kept in confinement there, and |
the light haired man visited me ev-
cry day and said | was held for ran
som. He dictated a letter to my |
friends, which he compelled me TO
write, but never used harsh language |
to me. He informed the landlady |
of the house that was his wife and |
was partially insane, and not to pay
any attention to what | NIGH say |
or 90. La night the lady took II e
down to the back door and told ne |
10 run to the station and / wovld be I
safe. / did So"
A st. Louis press dispatch Of the /
18th says that the story of Mrs. Lee
vi, who keeps the house on Wash
ington street, is entirely different, /
and Is cOrroUOrated by number OF /
other facts. She states that the young .
woman came there Of her own az
cord, accompanied by young M N
who represented her as his wife ana
gave the name of Arnold. She was
under no restraint whatever and
went every day with tlfe mau to h.r
meals at neighbOTing restaurant.
a Police Gazette and kindred pa
pers were found in her room, and
there was every evidence that SIZE
was enjoying herself. When the di
was published, the land
ady made an investigation, and dis
covered the name "Garrison" on her
handsome boarders pOrtmonaie. She
:harged the girl with being Miss
harrison and the girl denied the fact.
4 few moments later the landlady
heard that the police were coming,
md unceremoniously hustled her
air lodger out of the back door.