Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-08-15
AM MYSTERIOUS PATIENT.
Strange Episode In q Physiciaa's
LIE.
luRED sy A DECEPTIVE MESSAGE.
A Persistent New york Lover Who Kissed
His Pretty Sweetheart in the Street
Against Her WIN.

NEwrIELp, N. T., August IA letter
from resident Of Havana, N. Y. to gee
tleman in this village tells the following
very singular story: "A year ago this
month note was leh at the drug store a
Dr.. 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 imme-
diately on an urgent case a Henry No
Cures. Mr.. Mcclure was farmer. vho
lived two miles from Havana The note
was left st the Office at 3 O'Clock M night
Dr.. McCorn started in bis carriage for Tie
McCinre place.
The night was very dark, and when D..
McCoru reached road branching OF into
Haven Glen, man stepped up and asked
him if he was Dr.. McCord. The doctor
could not recognize the man, but answered
his question in the affirmative. The maa
then told him that he was the person Who
had sent the request for him to call, butthe
case was not at Farmer McClures. but
nearer. The man seemed greatly agitatsd,
and when the doctor hesitated sboat taking
charge Of case about which so much mys-
terry 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 de-
serted and was rapidly going to decay.
The doctor followed the man into . rear
room in the hotel, where q lantern wss
dimly burning. An elderly man and .
middle-aged woman sat on bench. On
the floor covered with . carriage robe vAs
another woman whose face the doctor could
not see. A young man who stood back in
the shadow came forward and told
the doctor that the woman lying on the
floor was his wife. and the elderly
man was her father. The other woman. he
said, was their family servant. The doctor
protested against having anything 70 do
with the case in that out-oftheway place.
and insisted that the woman be removed 70
a neighboring farm house. This the old
gentleman said il was impossible to do. and
the suFerings Of the woman finally induced
him 10 take charge Of the case, she corro-
borating the story Of the two men. The
doctor said, however, that he would report
the strange affair and have il made q case
tor legal investigation.
More Mystery.
The woman gave birth to q male child,
and with il and the nurse she Was carried
10 a covered hack which was brough, from
the shed beside the hotel. The three men
came back as il to say something further 70
the doctor, but seized him instead and
bound his hands aud feet and gagged him,
assuring him meanwhile that they regretted
doing 40, but that il was necessary 70 ave
the honor Of the people for them to get away
without their identity being discovered.
pocket and left him alone in the building.
And sttll More.
John Amss. DIR. McCorn's clerk, finding
the next morning the note requesting the
doctor to visit McClures place, and the doc
tor not having returned late In the fors-
noon, started for McClure's 10 see II any.
thing bad happened 10 him. No one II
McClures knew anything about the doctor.
and Ames, seeing the tracks Of wagon
leading down into hollow. followed then.
He found the doctors horse tied in the shsd
and the doctor himself bound on the
floor in the old hotel. Instead Of
making the mysterious affair public
McCorn and Ames agreed 10 keep quiet
about il with the hope that they might get
on the track of the parties OF discover ne~
developments. The matter remained . ~
crel with them for several weeks when. be-
ing unable TO get any trace Of the strange
party, they made Il known. The stoey
made sensation In the village for awhile,
but was finally forgotten. Il has been re-
yived by the receipt by Dr.. McCorn Of an
anonymous letter, postmarked Corning. o.,
referring TO the birth OF the child in the old
hotel year ago and inclosing 80 - .
present TO the doctor from the child on the
first anniversary Of its birth,