Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-04-12
ADASrTARDLY DEED
Cowardly Abduction of Pref
ty Cleveland Girl.
ALMOST KILLED BY A MIsCREANT.

Assaulted While She Is on an Errand,
a Carriage and Kept for Three Days
She Returns Home I'm Terrible
Condition and Can Tell Very Little of
What Happened to Her-No Clue TO
the Abductors.
CLEVELAND, o., April II Maud E Kelso,
the 15-year-old daughter of ex-Deputy Sher-
iff Charles P. Kelso, real estate agent,
who strangely disappeared Thursday even
ing, was kidnapped, chloroformed and
taken into the suburbs and almost killed by
some villain or villains unknown. Miss
kelso is very pretty girl, of plump figure,
beautiful blonde hair, and would attract at
tention anywhere. Her mother died sew
eral years ago, and she liv with her sister,
Mrs. William Hutchins, at 1913 Cedar ave
hue. Thursday afternoon she visited her
fathers Office downtown, and, not finding
him in, left a note asking him to cali at her
home in the evening. A few minutes before
O'Clock Mrs. Hutchins asked Maud
go to a notion store on Garden street to
purchase some collars and from there to
Smlthn.ght'S drug store on Wo dland ave-
nue. for prescription for a neighhor's child.
She started on the errands, accompanied bv
her devoted ami almost inseparabls COM
psnion, large spaniel, leaving word that
if her father came in hcr absence he should
wait for her, as she WISHED particularly to
see him
The Girl Had Disappeared.
AT O'clock MIR. Kelso arrived, and after
waiting half au hour became uneasy at her
prolonged absence AMI started out to look
her up. lie won't to the notion store OH
Garden street, and found she had been there
and purchase the collars At Smithnight's
erug store he learned that she had not called
for the prescription. Somewhere between
these two POINTS, only few blocks apart,
she seemed to have dropped out of sight
Mr.. kelso, now thoroughly alarmed, en-
gagged the fami Y. neighbors and two police
men in the search. All the stores in the
vicinity, the homes of her associates and
teachers were visited without finding the
slightest cue to her whereabouts. 1t was
now 8 O'Clock and apparent that some mis-
hap had befallei the girl.
Return of the Faithful Dog.
Mr.. kelso tried to quiet his apprehensons
with the knowledge that Maud was accom-
panied by her faithful Carlo, who was
plucky dog and would fight to the death for
his mistress. But when al $50 Carlo dragged
himself into the house, crippled in one leg,
covered with mud AM his handsome brass
collar pounded out of shapa, the worst fe airs
of the family seemed realized, and Mr.
ke!so became almost frantic at the thought
of what must have befallen his motherless
girl Scores of neighbors and a number of
police and detectives continued the search
all through the night. The moment day
light appeared all the alleys, barns, and va
cant lots whiting mile or more were ex-
amined, but without developing the slightest
clue.
The Maltreated Girl Reappears.
just before noon yesterday an acquaint-
ance of Miss keiso. who W.as standing at the
window of her home on Sterling avenue,
saw Maud staggering by on the street, and
knowing of her disappearance excitedly ran
out ana called her by name. Miss Kelso at
first dii not reply, hut on the second call
stopped, turned and, rushing into the arms
of her frleni, cried "Oi, take me home
She was unable to answer any questions, but
was tenderiy placed in a carriage and taken
to her home, where h.r q stracted father
and sister an3 even poor Carlo received her
with path tie demonstrations The poor
girl was greatly FRUSTRATED and mentally
X,
covered with dust ami mui. aui she was
badly bruised, har throat bearing marks as
of choking She complained of feeling
cold, but WIS too delirious for hours for
any statement of her experience to be OBJ
tanned.
Her story of Abduction.
DR. Spencer made an examination and
prescribed for her relief. eie stated that she
had undou tediy been heavily chloroformed,
dragged away by the arms and fearfully
abused. Last evening Miss Kelso was suf-
hciently recovered to make a statement,
though still in highly excited and nervous
condition, approaching hysteria. She said
that after leaving the notion store on Garden
street, and while passing Pine street, a mar
row and Unlighted thoroughfare man
stepped up behind her placed wet hand
kerchief over her face and, in spite of her
struggles, lifted her into a carriage She
remembers nothing early that occurred
subsequently,, until daylight yesterday
morning. when she found herself in a field
south of Woodland avenue, in the suburbs,
the exact location of which can not now be
ascertained.
No Clue to the Abductor.
Mr.. kelso believes that when his daughter
fully RECEIVERS her mental powers she will
tell story showing that she made a desper-
ate fight in spite of the efforts to render her
unconscious, the details OF which she cannot
now recall Her physicians reported at 10
O'Clock last evening that. though in a pitia-
BILE condition and suffering greatly, she
would undoubtedly recover, unless unlocked
for results from the night exposure ensue
This affair, following the murder of Maggie
Mccarthy, domestic in the family of Rev
Mar.Ia
little Maggie Thompson by Otto Leuth last
summer, has aroused public feeling to the
highest pitch In this case there is not the
slightest clue thus far
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