The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-07-28
NO ONE-EYED MAN FOR HER.
THAT'S THE REASON GRACE RUGER
ELOPED FROM POUGHkEEPSIK

ELOPED FROM POUGHkEEPSLE
Auguste Ambcnrt, who Went with Her,
LEFT nm Unpaid Board Bni-Both Ar
rested Ga n Sioop or Tompkinsviiie-
The Man Charged with Abduction.
Auguste Ambeart. q Ffenchman. came hers
from South Carolina a little moro than two
months ago. looking for work, no says. He
got nothing TO do In New York. and went to
Poughkeepsie. whore he got work on sewer
III course OF construction. He boarded In
Poughkeepsie with Frank Queen. an Italian.
who runs bootback stand and boarding
house for his countrymen. The woman who
lives with Queen. ostens;bly rs his wife. takes
care OF the boarders whlc he gives his atten-
ton to his boot backing business and to coll
Letting the bills from the boarders.
Mrs Queen ;" had for friend and frequent
visitor Grace Ruger. a slip OF girl with a fair
face and a head full OF romantic notions.
Grace did general housework for Mrs. George
Carter. though both her parents are living and
shs could have had a home with them II she
would have stayed there. She Is pretty girl
with IN oval face and CLEAR olive complexion.
which suits her dark eyes. The first time
Grace visited Mrs. Queen" after Ambeart
won't there to board two months ago size mot
him. No ono would accuse him OF being an
attractive fellow or good looking. He Is tall
aud gaunt and swarthy. His eyes are small
and close together, and as restless as
Lucky bug" But something about him
plensed Grace. She met him frequently for
several weeks. and at last. about two weeks
ago. she ran away with him.
| All this time her parents did not know what
| was going on at Queens, nor did Mrs. Carter.
who supposed that when Grace went away
| from her house she went to visit her own
| home. So when Ambeart disappeared 1t was
| not kno wn at once that tho girl had gone with
| him. Mrs. Carter supposed she had gone to
| her home, and her parents supposed that she
was still at Mrs. Carters. But Amheart made
one mistake in his plans, and 1t has now got
| him into serious trouble. He left Queens
boarding house In PouRhkeepsie in such
hurry that he overlooked a bill OF si9.19 which
| he owed Queen for board.
Queen came to New York to look for Ambeart
and after some time located his man In an
Italian boarding house in Park street There
was young woman with Ambeart. whom
10 Poushk eepsie that he had found Ami cart
and asked to have an officer come down with a
va: mssas as.r sSsn es so
Sqs1s tie xhfs sS hs
ssa bae Gn Ssd nSa YET
| Accordingly the warrant which Constable Me-
lenrt., arrest charged him with abduction
had left tho Park street place. and as McDon-
% s3us 1et my n Sa Win Is T KIM n?
time the story Of the elopement of the girl with
e oa In that
liam MacVeigh Of Tompkusyille. read the
d whs Ss Is ssas IL
Italian saloon in Hannah street. Tompkinsville.
men ,afins a6ous Who had
very pretty young girl on q Sound sloop lying
menI He Listened moro atentively to what
the men in the saloon were saying and soon
from the talk Maovoigh inferred that AM
eir i and he made up his mind 10 nip Ambears
right there and srol his game.
have some fun with inc baby" hs did not
"!everest piece Of work he has done in a lons
time He made q complaint before Justice
ir an fhee
boat and went out to the sand sloop.. When he
arrested Ambeert he took the girl along 70
with Ambeart OF her own free will and accord.
1%beart said that he Intended to marry ths
sirl at once; Macveigh took the nanlr. to tn:
oco at Oh the a ne0 ie chierSt
once telephoned, 70 ,Pouehkeepeie that Am
|
requested to hold them until an officer could
reach, New Brighton with a warrant. The
asking
femanded Ambesrt and the girl until yester-
Yesterday morning, Constable Mcdonald Of
Poughkeepsie came down with two warrant.
sioR; snd o1s ior Grace TSesss cIaTxins h r.
Sisht. Frank Queen came dow vi! & him to
bsnrt sSH 5S s board hi
ana n conviction for abduction will not satisfy
that board bill it is not likely that any one ia
Pouehkeepse would have taken the trouble to
iaSw he had nS
sss "a Sssn s Easd IA sas:
e Queer, but S:s Wiz VIII hin him ms
Grace SAD t thf .sES ae SP,
herself. according 10 Grace Kuser's story, pro,
tSe itsanD w ZION
ies hss III SS$ H., but ono SSs t fpa e;
than Of Mrs; Queens blandlshponts. askel
st s to run hs ssy s
e. soGn as sSs' hens Ss
r. place where Queen saw p ne ThsI
Ambeart told her that he could no
marry her pst then as he had not It.. mons(
he would marry her. While he was trying t.
work he took her * Staten lsHnd the
: went to the Nautilus Hoiel at Tompkinsyille
While they were there AmssarIt tGid hsF ,ha
Then lying in the hsrbor. and took her Will
him TO tho sloop. -,
, Ambeart and would marry him now II h
wanted hrrto. She protested that e she e. wa \
She told her story Ia the most mstter-of-lac
way O. with smiling intil-rence;,
Ambeart was MT so cheerful He seems 4
realize that the charge against him 10 seri
, GUS one. He talked about the affair freely
, marry the girl. He said that when he asket
her to run away with him he wanted to MARI
| her. but lie did not have money enough. III
: was very wllliag 20 marry her yesterday after
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