Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-08-17
A MYSTERIOUS PATIENT.
A Physician Left Bound and Gagged in
q Deserted Inn.

Deserted Inn.
A letter from a resident of Havana, n.
Y, to gentleman in this village, says a
Newfield IN. Y.) special to the World,
tells the following very singular
story; "a year ago this month a
note was left at the drug store
of DIR. McCorn, in Havana, by
boy, who said he had been hired by man
to deliver it. 1t was a request for the
doctor to call Immediately on an urgent
case at Henry McClure's. Mr.. Mcclure
was a farmer, who lived 2 miles from
Havana. The note was left at the office
at O'Clock at night. DR.. McCorn started
in his carriage for the Mcclure place.
"The night was very dark, land when DR..
McCorn reached a road branching off into
Havana Glen a man stepped up and
asked him if he was DR.. McCOrn. The
doctor could not recognize the man, but
answered his question in the affirmative.
The man then told him that he was the
person who had sent the request for him
to call, but the case was not at Farmer
McClure's, but nearer. The man seemed
greatly agitated, and when the doctor
hesitated about taking charge of case
about which so much mystery was made
the stranger assured him that it was one
of great urgency and the doctor finally
told him to lead the way. The stranger
led the horse into the side road. They
proceeded until they reached an old hotel
that had been long deserted and was rap
idly going to decay. The doctor followed
the man into rear room in the hotel,
where a lantern was dimly burning. An
elderly man and a middle-aged woman
sat on a bench. On the floor covered with
a carriage robe was another whose face
the doctor could not see. A young man
who stood back in the shadow came for
ward and told the doctor that the woman
living on the floor was his wife and the
elderly man was her father. The other
woman, he said, was their family SER
want. The doctor protested against haV-
ing anything to do with the case in that
out-Of-the-way place, and insisted that
the sick woman be removed to a neigh
boring farm house. This the old gentleman
man it was impossible to do, and the suf-
ferings of the woman finally induced him
to take charge of the case, she corroborat-
ing the story of the two men. The doc
tor said, however, that he would report
the strange affair and have it made case
for legal investigation.
"The woman gave birth to male child,
and with it and the nurse she was carried
to a covered hack which was brought
from the shed beside the hotel. The three
men came back as. if to say something
further to the doctor, but seized him in
stead and bound his hands and feet and
gagged him, assuring him meanwhile
that they regretted doing so, but that it
was necessary to save the honor OF the
people for them to get away without their
identity being discovered. They then
placed bank note in the Doctors pocket
and left him alone in the building.
GsIobr, moo Tlr Moi iOrp3G pIorx finding
doctor to visit McClure's place, and the
doctor not having returned late in the
forenoon. started for McClure's to see il
anything had happened to him. No one
at McClure's knew anything about the
doctor, and Ames, seeing the tracks Of a
wagon leading down into hollow, fol-
lowed them. He found the Doctors horse
tied in the shed and the doctor himself
bound ON the floor in the old hotel. In
stead of making the mysterious affair
public McCorn and Ames agreed to keep
quiet about it with the hope that they
might get on the track of the parties OF
discover new developments. The matter
remained a secret with them for several
weeks when, being unable to get any
trace of the strange party, they made Il
known. The story made a sensation in
the village for a while, but was finally
| forgotten. 1t has been revived by the re
ceipt by DIR. McCOrn of an anonymous
letter, postmarked Corning, o., referring
| to the birth of the child in the old hotel 9
| year ago, and inclOsing $50 as present
to the doctor from the child on the frs
anniversary of its BIRTH"