The Indiana State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis) 1868-1895, 1886-01-27
WAS SHE STOLEN
An Ohio Lady i'm Doubt as to Her Parent
age.

EVANSVILLE, O., Jan. 20.-An Associated
Press telegram from Baltimore, Md, dated
the 18th, reads like this:
Mrs. l.. d. Murray No. 127 Ridge avenue Zanes-
vile. o., who says she believes she was stolen
from her parents in Baltimore when child has
written letter to Postmaster Veazey, asking him
to help her find trace OF her parents. She is now
forty-fye years of age. She writes that her pre-
tended father died out there some time ago. and
was about to tell her the mystery OF her life, but
never did il. Her pretended mother is now liv-
ing, at the age OF seventy years. She asks tue
Postmaster if he knows OF the families of Blades
and PhippS who used to live there. She also sug
gests that the Postmaster offer reward OF $500
Tor the information.
A reporter called upon Mrs. Murray to-
day at her home on Ridge avenue, Seventh
Ward, this city, and got from her the fol-
lowing statement She says that Thomas
and Caroline Avis brough; her to this city
about forty-five years ago; that Mrs. Avis
was the divorced wife of DIR. Boggs a dem
fist of Baltimore, by whom Mrs. Avis had
one son, and that Thomas, her father, was
stage-driver from Richmond, Va She SAYS
that in her childhood a Miss Bridgman and
Thomas Avis told her certain things, from
which she now concludes that she is not the
child of the parties whose name she bears.
Thomas Avis, some sixteen years ago, said
to her that he had something important to
tell her, but that he died before re-
yyealing it to her. He gave
u.
her parentage was involved in mystery, and
he would some time tell her who she was,
and from that she would be able to prove
herself the heir TO a sum Of money. He ex-
pressed great fear, however,.in telling her,
as he might be put in the penitentiary; Car
oline, her reputed mother, would tell her,
he said after he was dead and gone.
She further says that she was told when a
girl, by the mother of DR.. McElroy, that a
man had visited this city once looking for a
girl baby that had been stolen, and that AL
Wis took her away from the city and con-
cealed her in an old house on the Wheeling
Road. She remembers, too, of peeping in
the bureau drawer when a child, and seeing
any amount of fine baby clothing, and that
she was severely reprimanded for being so
curious. She also remembers of hearing
people speak OF her clothing fine when
q child.
Mrs Murray also claims to know of fire.
quent correspondence between parties in Bal
tlmore and Mrs. Avis, the reputed mother,
which has always been a mystery to her.
Mr.. Murray and her own daughters have
frequently talked about the matter and it is
they who'are the most interested in the mat
ter and have witten to Baltimore concerning
it,
Mrs. Avis also resides in this city, and size
positively asserts that Mrs. Murray is her
daughter, and IT, ,oi of it has in her pos
session an ola bible containing an entry
which shows that Mary Virginia Avis NOW
Mrs. Murray was botn at Uniontown, Pa,
July 8, 1888.
Mrs. Murray believes that she was the
stolen child alluded to, and that she was
adopted by Mr.. and Mrs. Avis, and her real
parentage kept from her.