Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-11-11
ETNA PERRY's DISAPPEARANCE.
A Woodland Gentleman Gives a Some
what Different Version of 1t.

A Woodland Gentleman Gives a Some
what Different Version of 1t.
For the past week the San Francisco pa
pers have been full of special dispatches
regarding the " mysterious disappearance "
of Miss Etna Perry. a Woodland lass.
Special reporters swooped down on the
quiet little town, dug up all sorts of rumors
and opinions and worked the story for all
it was worth. They had her shanghaied,
eloped. murdered and relegated to thou
sand and one other dreadful fates. She had
started out to visit friends at Dixon, but
had never reached her destination, and
from that on all was mystery and conjec-
ture.
Finally, however, Miss Perry, after sew
eral days absence, stepped off the train at
Woodland and repaired to her home, I'M
murdered, unshanghaied and uneloped.
When asked for an ex explanation she made
the following statement: II went to Dixon
on October 22d to visit my friend Miss
Annie Cushing. For some cause she did
not meet me, and while was sitting in the
waiting-room | picked up the Examiner,
and glancing through the want ads | no.
ticed that dressmaker in the city wanted
help, and as | had worked at dressmaking
l concluded to go and apply for the posi-
ton. | went to the city and went to work.
wrote to my mother and also to my
brother-in-law John Hughes, of Capay
valley, but for some reason both letters
miscarried. My brother-in- law got his day
before yesterday and came to the city i'm
medistely. Mothers has not yet arrived.
AS soon as l found that they did not know
where was and were very anxious about
me, came home. While / was in the
city stayed with Mrs. Jacobs, and that is
all there is of this big sensation. 1 acted
just as any other woman who is of age
would do. | am very sorry that the papers
have made such talk about the matter,
and am more sorry that my parents have
been in such mental anguish about me,
but L supposed they knew of my where
abouts all the time"
This quieted matters, and the sensation
was apparently shelved.
A RECORD UNION reporter sauntered into
the Golden Eagle Hotel yesterday, and one
of the first persons he encountered was q
prominent resident of Woo land. Quite
little sensation you had over that Perry
case in your town, wasn't it?" was the re-
porter first utterance.
well, yes; rather" replied the gentle
man. But you newspaper fellows were
left all around on that story-that is, the
correct story. Nobody got hold of it, and
the girls statement of her wanderings was
accepted as genuine. Ha Hal"
why, what do you mean?"
"Just what l say. The story, in truth, is
rather different affair from what has been
published, and from what Miss Perry has
told. 1t would surprise you if told you
that she never went near Dixon or San
Francisco and never intended to, wouldn'
it? But there is no need of mystifying
you. Sit down and I'll tell you the correct
business. Etna Perry's mother was mar
ried twice, and by Der first husband had a
son, who is now in Port Townsend. About
week or two ago this son was arrested up
there for embezzlement, and his case is
now before the Courts-you probably read
all about it in the press dispatches at the
time. Now, very few people in Woodland
knew that this was Mrs. Perry's son, and
she was not DESTROYS of having it known.
He needed assistance, and the mother did
not dare to go herself for fear of the talk
that would follow, and so she planned the
mysterious disappearance of the daughter,
so that the latter might go to Port Town.
send and aid the son financially and other
wise. The daughter went, did up the business
and returned and nobody was the wiser,
as to the real facts in the case. Now, that's
the mysterious Etna Perry story in nut
shell-somewhat different from the Others
isn't it?n