Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-08-30
A QUEER mlsTAkE.


d PhhadeipIsfn Girl Enters the
Wrong House ON Metuqniu& fronl
the Opera,
Philadelphia correspondence New
York World pair OF snow-white eye
brows with tfesses of raven black is the
strange cgm biuation to be seen now on
Miss Carrie Say dam, daughter Of August
Suydam, No. l7l5 Courtland place.
Carrie is very pretty, nevertheless, and
prIdes herself on the oddity of her ap.
pearanoe. Until about two weeks ago.
her eyebrows were az black as her hair,
but a terrible fright which she experi-
enced about that time threw heI into q
bed Of sickness. and when she arose the
Transformation had taken place.
La company with Mr.. Arthur Saer-
the Casino to witness the "Ohimea of
Normandy" Mt Sherporne is u CLERK
IN the Pennsylvania Raliroaa otfce and
lives as 4oresdaie. After the opera
was over the couple visited restaurant
for supper, end it was Eearly one O'clock
IN the morning when her escort bade
iiiiss Suydam good bye on the doorstep
OF the picturesque Court.anG place reel.
denoe. She had already turnad the
iatch with her night key, .:a as n. h. :.
Sherborne went whlstling down the
street she pushed open the door and
went IN, She was somewhat surprised
TO find that the hull light had been ex-
tlngulshed, bat she concluded it had
been done by some one who dld know
chat she was out, and she groued her
Tay to the second floor.
She had been III the habit of removing
her bracelets, watch and hat, and leav-
| ing them on the piano Just inside the
| sitting room door, at the head OF the
| stairs, and as usual she now went into
| the sitting room to deposit them. Ou
| this occasion, however, to her amaze
ment, she found that her piano was not
IN its accustomed place. The articles
which she had in the darkness hastily
placed where she supposed the instra
meut was fell to the floor, and she
started back noDpinssed.
Gould it be possible she had got into
the wrong house? She started at once,
| braVely enough, to find out, Gathering
up the articles she had dropped on the
floor she cautiously made her way to the
front bed chamber. The door was
slightly ajar and she pushed it open
further A gas Jet, lighted, but turned
low, threw just enough light around the
room for her TO see at glance. that she
had made q mistake and was in a
| strange house. On the bed in front of
her lay man, half clothed, snoring
sonorousiy. He was tall and powerful,
and the gIrl tremb!ed as she thought
that perhaps she was alone with him IN
the building, and at an hour after mid
night.
Il As ehe turned to retrace her steps, she
trippod, and 1nvoluntarIly little
scream escaped her. That little scream
awakened the sleeper and he sprang
from his bed with an oath. Miss Suy.
dam, although almost paralyzed with
fear, managed to leap dosn the few
steps to the sitting room landing and tc
turn to go to the lower hall before ht
rushed out of the door,
WHO'S that?" he cried.
She made no answer, but fairly flew
down the stairs. There was sharp
short report, and she felt pistol bal
graze her cheek. With one bound sht
was in the vestibnle and had pulled th,
/ vestibule door to after hei. Anothe
bullet crashed through the glass panels
I as she opensd the front door and bound
ed into the street.
et Trembling with excitement she die
covered that her own house was t8t
e doors above, By some means she ha'
entered l7l1 instead of i7l5, and he
mistake had come very near proving
/ fatal. The houses in this block are al
, alike in architectural appearance, ant
: errors of this kind are freqacnt, Mis-
! Suydam was confined to her bed TO
| L.
{ narrowly missed q serious Illness.
Mr., Jacob Godfrey, who hves at I'LL
: and who fred the shots, was much dis
tressed about the occurrences, thougl
thankful that the shots did nothin
: more than damage his property some
what and turn Miss Carries eyebrow
J. from black to white. His family wa
g out of town on the night the shootin
occurred, and he imagined that burglar
% had gained an entrance TO the hous
q while he slept.