The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1891-04-08
SHE REAPPBARS.
Miss Amy Morgan, Who was
Abducted, Returns Home.
STRANGE, STARTLING STORY
Told by the Young Lady-.-Thrown
into Cab aud BIlndfolded, She
isCarried % Miles from Home.
A Deep, Dark Mystery.

Miss Amy Morgan, the young lady
who so mysteriously disappeared from
her home, two miles west Of Bridgeport,
on Sunday evening, mention Of which
was made exclusively in the 1STELLI-
,GrScER yesterday, arrived in Bridgeport
on a c., L. & W. train from Bellaire yes.
terdsy morning.
A few minutes after her arrival, she
was taken in carriage by DR.. A. J..
Heinlein, a friend OF the family, and
driven to the home Of her uncle, and
was again in the midst Of her relatives
who have been we'll nigh heart broken
over her sudden and mysterious disap.
Miss Morgan was seen by an IETELL1.
GvyCgR representative while waiting for
Mr. Heinlvin, and related the story Of
her disappearance.
Miss Morgan stated that she had at.
tended a meeting Of missionary society
at Scott's NJ. Il. church, and had re.
turned home in company with young
man named Dubois, as stated in the
IyTgLLlaEScER. They stood at the gate
few minutes talking. Mics Morgan's
aunt opened the door, and she taking 1t
aga sign th&t-ghe was wanted within
babe her escort good bye and started for
Alter going part way to the house she
discovered that she had lost letter
while returning from church, and
thinking she could fud 1t she started
down the road in search OF it. After
going but a short distance she heard the
sounds OF hack coming up the road,
but that being very common along the
pike she paid no attention to 1t.
The hack drove hurriedly up the road
and stopped rather suddenly short dis-
lance from her. A strange man jumped
out and siezed her. She tried to scream,
bnt WAS prevented by her captor putting
something over her mouth.
Miss Morgan remembers being
dragged into the hack, but further than
that she remembers nothing that oc.
cured for some time.
When she regained Consciousness she
thought she recognized certain land
marks, but could not decipher her loca'
tion. The hack went on for miles, and
at nearly daylight came to standstill in
the country, on mud road IN the open
country. The two men who occupied
the hack with her then took her out and
led her through wood to a house.
There was no light within, and the pre-.
Yailing silence gave 1t the appearance Of
being unoccupied.
One Of the men held Miss Morgan
while the other gave several vigorous
rsps at the door. After tryinRi in vain
to get some response from within, one
OF the men said to his companion: 1.-THE
games all up, and as she can't prove
ANYTHING, we had better let her 60"
This conclusion was arrived atafter they
had discussed thoroughly the question
Of killing her and the probability OF her
being able to give description OF her
captors. One argued that she had not
seen either OF them, and that to do her
harm might cause more vigorous investi-
CATION on the part oi her friends.
She was released and told to 90 as far
as she could on the road leading south.
Miss Morgan started down the road in
the direction indicated by them and was
soon out OF sight Of the hack. 1t was
still very dark and she walked along
through the mud, occasionally falling
into cutters and over logs until she was
attracted by the light from alarm house:
Rousing the occupants she told them OF
her experience, and they gave her shell
ter, The proprietor OF the farm house
was Mr.. White, and the house is 10.
Gated between St. ClairsVille and
Buns Mills. After Farmer White and
his family bad done all they could for
her and she seemed somewhat re-
freshed, she started late Monday morn
ing and walked until night, reaching
Burr's Mills about niRhttall. She OBJ
tanned shelter from q Mr.. Welch, the B.
4 0. station agent. Yesterday morning
she was put aboard Of B. & Q. train by
Mr.. Welch with money enough TO bring
her home, and landed safely in Bridge
port, though somewhat stained with
country mud, at ten o'clock yesterday.
The case is indeed very strange. The
Young lady'S captors offered her no in.
dignity other than 10 deprive her OF her
liberty aud 10 prevent her from making
outcry. The lonely house in the woods
and the efforts to keep her in Ignorance
OF her location, till they decided
to allow her to 60, point to
abduction ior ransom, but there
are other things that put q different face
upon it. While Mr.. Morgan is In com.
Portable circumstances, he has not
wealth sufficient TO pay heavy ransom
for his nieCe's return.
The kidnappsrs could not know that
Miss Morgan wonld be on the road at
that tihe, ior 1t was not her custom 10
be out 1T night, and it was by the
merest chaLCe that she was not az
home.
It has been suggested that the act
may have been the break OF two very
reckless men, who had no object In TAX
ing the girl away aside from mere bra
vado. But this hardly holds out, for
how could they know that they would
be safe in rapping at 9 door unless there
was some defined and understood plan
OF action?
The whole matter resolves itself Into
the deepest mystery that has oyerspread
an event Of any kind in this vicinity in
years, There il no intimation on any
ones part that the hRckman or the
owner OF the hack are known, and no
effort has been made 20 yet 70 ferret ont
the details. Id. a....a-la sas
Reunion cf the Fleming Family.
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