The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1886-01-21
WAS SuE sIoLENt
A GAINESVILLE Lady In Doubt as to Her Pa
l0ntagO,

A ZauesVIlIe Lady In Doubt as to Her Pa.
ientagS.
HANEsviLLE, o, Jan. 2O.-AnA@ociated
Press telegram from Baltimore, Nd dated
the 18th, reads like this:
"BGrs. L. D. Murray, No. III Ridge
Iyenue, XInesville, o., who says she be-
ieVes she was stolen from hcr parents in
Baltimore when child, has written a let
ter to Postmaster VeGzsy, asking him to
aelp her find trace OF her parents. She Il
now forty.ive years OF age. She writes
that her pretended father died out there
,ome time ago, aud was about to tell her
The mystery Of her life but never did it..
Her pretended mother Is now living, al
tho age OF seventy years. She asks the
Postmaster il he knows Of the families Of
Blades and Phlpps who used to live there.
She also suggests that the Postmaster offer
4reward OF $500 for the information"
A reporter called upon Mrs. Murray To.
lay at her home on Ridge avenue, Seventh
ward, this city, and got from her the fol-
lowing statement. She says that Thomas
and Caroline Alyis brought her TO this city
about forty-fve years ago. That Mrs.
Alvis was the divorced wife Of Dr.. Bogg, a
dentist Of Baltimore, by whom Mrs. Avis
had one son, and that Thomas (heI
flther) was a stage driver, from Rich.
nond, Va. She says that in her child.
hood Miss Dridgeman and Thomas Alyls
Iold hercertain things, from which she now
concludes she Is not theChild oil the parties
whose name she bears. Thomas Alvig,
some sixteen years ago, said TO her that he
had something important 10 tell her, but
that he died before revealing II TO her.
He gave her to understand, however, that
uer parentage was involved in mystery,
aud he would some time tell her who she
was, md from that she would be able to
prove herself the heir 10 a sum Of money.
lie expressed great fear, however, in tell.
Ing her, as he might be put In the peni.
ientiary; Caroline, her reputed mother,
would tell her, he said, after be was dead
and gone.
She further says that she was told when
a girl by the mother Of DR.. MCEroy, that
man had visited this city once, looking
for girl baby that had been stolen, and
that Avis took her away from the city
and concealed her In an old house on the
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peeping in the bureau drawer when a
child and seeing any amount Of fine baby
clothing, and that she was severely repri.
manded for being 90 curious. She also re.
members OF hearing people speak Of her
line clothing when child.
Mrs. Murray also claims 10 know Of fre.
quent correspondence between parties In
Baltimore and Mrs. Alvir, the reputed
mother, which has always been a mystery
10 her.
Mrs. Murray-and her own daughters
have frequently talked about the matter,
and 1t Is they who are the most interested
In the matter, and have written 10 Balti.
more concerning II.
Mrs. Avis also resides In this city, and
she positively asserts that Mrs. Murray is
her daughter, and In proof OF II has In her
possession an old Bible containing an en-.
Try which shows that Mary Virginia Alvis
(now Mrs. Murray was horn at Union.
town, Pa, July 0, 1883. ,
Mrs. Murray believes that she was the
stolen child alluded 10, and that she was
adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Alyis, and her
real parentage kept from her