Connecticut western news., 1885-08-19
r1oeerD BY AN ANGRY FATHER,
A Member of . British Royal Commission
 Accused of AIisleRdinE a Girl.

LONDON, Aug. 14.--A well-known gentlemans who was recently appointed . member of royal commission, was met on the staircase or his office in East India avenue to-day, hnd soundly logged by gentleman who publicly accused him of having betrayed his daughteA. The thrashing was preceded by violent assaulet the angry father shaking the betrayer of his child like terrier does rat. The father then fogged him until the stick broke, when persons interfered.
 The man who yielded the stick is Glasgow gentleman named Francis, and the victim of the fagellation is Mr. Pearce, the chief of the great Glasgow shipbuilding firm of John Elder 6 Brothers, married man and 0 member Of Lord Iddesleighs new royal commission on the depression of trade. Mir. Francis told the story of his wrongs as follows:
 ''This man Pearce was once my most trusted friend, and our intimacy was one of many years standing. Five years ago, when my daughter was very beautiful girl of IT, this villain took advantage of his familiar acqualnt- ance at my house to accomplish her ruin. He persuaded her to secretly leave the school near Glasgow which she was attending, took her to London and established her iu Q hand some private lodging. At first he surrounded her with every luxury and gave her regular allowance of $15 week. All this time was in ignorance of the fate or hiding place pt my daughter, and after thorough search, aided by detectives, I at last gave up au hope of finding her and mourned for her as dead.
 ''But the libertine gradually tired of his victim, and her allowances dwind.ed down to nothing. She managed to live for some time by pawning or selling her iewelry and ward robe, but finally she appealed to him in desper- ation to give her at least the means to keep herself alive until she could procure employ ment Her appeals become troublesome, and he proceeded to got rid of her in the brutal and outrageous way which the English lunacy | laws make only too easy for any rich ruftian. | By fraud and force she was removed to pr1- | vate mad house and confined there as an in | sane woman.
 Ut was while she was in this Bedlam that l | learned her fate, and obtained her release. | The doctors admitted to me that she was not mad, and had not been mad, but had been laboring under terrible mental excitement, amounting to hysteria, when brought to tho asylum. Afterward she had lapsed into state of istless. despairing apathy, and as the doc tors did not know that she had any friends ex- cept the man who had had her confined there, and as her board was regular paid, they had kept her at the asylum.
 tTo-day," continued Mr. Francis, q met that man accidentally in London. My wrong rushed upon my mind and almost blinded me with rage. Icould have killed him where he stood with no moro compunction than would feel in killing rat, or any other vermin. But gave him chance for his life. I offered to meet him in a duel on the Continent. He re- fused. Then I thrashed him until my stick broke in my hand and the crowd rushed be- tween us, when we escaped"
 Mir. Pearce, who is muscular, handsome man of middle age, and fully six feet high, was afterward seen. He did not suffer any serious or permanent injury by the assault
 He refused to say anything about the orgin of the trouble beyond admitting that it was on l account of Mir. Francis's daughter, and deny ing that he Lad misled the girl