New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-08-18
faver 10 would now stand IN hand to keep out Of bic
WAY"
rittAeE DooroFs srRsYoB sroRE
ryr,erb mro A LONELY srot AMP Foherp 10

rSfirrb INTO LONELY hr0t hNp tohctp II
aiyh His SERVICES 10 An UNKNOWN PATIENT
Ntwfirtb, Aug, PA letter FROM resi-
dent NJ Havana, n, W ~ gentleman IN THIS village
tells the following singular story year aeo thi
month note leh ~ tho d. " store ~ ~ he6lh "
Havana by hay, wh0 said ha had been hTed w maj
10 deliver a. n was request f0r the doctor o. call h'
medatey on an urgent case NJ Henry mocmrez MI
Mcclure was u farmer living two miles froni Havana
The note was left at the once ~ o'clock at night III
McCorn started IN his carriage for the Mcclure place
The road leads past the entrance to Havana dle ana
another road turns oh from 10 and extends down through
one portion of it, The night was dark, aud when Dr.
McCorn reached the road passing down into the hollow
man stepped mp from side Of the road and cried ont
m the DOCTOR asking bin II lac DR.. .lct orn The
latter could not recognize the man. but answered the
question in tho affirmative.
The man then told him that he was the person who
had sent the request him call but the case was not
at farmer McCure but nearer that namo being used TO
give the doctor the locality The seemed greatly
agatcd ana when doctor h STATED 10 take charge OF
a case about which so much my stcry being made
the stranger assured him that 1t was one OF great
urgency and begged earnestly that the doctor t0d
him 20 lead the way The stranger led the horse INTO
the road. They proceeded until they reached the ol
hotel formerly kept in that part ct the Glen, but long
deserted and going to decay The horse was tied IN
under tumble do Sn shed, and the doctor follower te
man into the hotel. They passed into a rear room;
a middle-aged woman sat bench. ON the moor
covered with q carriage robe another woman whose
face the doctor could young man, VINO $1,000
hack III the swallow, came forward and told the doctor
dt the woman IN distress was his wlic ana he eueiy
man was her father. Tie other woman was their ianly
servant The doctor protested against having anything
with the I'm that out Of-he-Way pace, anu III
sisted that tue sick bc removed TO neghDOrlhB
farm This the old gentleman said 1t was np0s-
ble 10 dn and ~uiierIu0s NJ the woman finally IN
duced him take charge Of the case she c0rrODOrahB
the story Of the two men. .
The doctor insisted. however, that he would return NJ
IN ata mud
made "A for legal investigation. me woman gave
BIRTH to male child. and with 1t and the Lurse she was
carried To II covered hack. which brought from III
uncr tho shed The three came back rs u 10 say
sOturtng tho doctor. but seized him Instead
aud bound his hands aud feet and gagged him. assuring
him regretted doing hut IL necessary, 10
~ the people. for them 10 get away WIN
out their cntitys being dsc0yeredi They placed BANK
note in the doctors pocket and LETT him alone III the
building. -
ng tn next morning the note requesting the doctor 10
visit McCurc's place. ma the doctor not having re
turned late In the OrenOn started for McCres 10 see
II ANYTHING had happened to him No one ut Mctlnre-
anything about the DOCTOR ana Anes, seeing the
tracks Of "A wagon leading down into the hollow. fO-
lowed them He found the doctors horse tied In the
shed and the doctor himself bound the floor I'm the Dd
hotel Instead Of making the steriOu AFFAIR public ~
MctOrn anc Ames agreed 10 keep quiet ABOUT IT,
with the hope that they might get the track OF the
parties or discover developments. The matter re-
manned secret with them for several weeks when benR
unable get Of the strange party, they iade
II known The story made sensation In the village TOT
a while hut finally forgotten.
IL has been revived bv the rcccTt by Dr. McNorn OF an
anonymous letter. posmlrked Corning ohio, referring
tho birth ~ the child In the old hotel year ago ana
nro-ng $50 present Ia the doctor from the ohld on
the first anniversary Of lts birth.