The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-21
A WOMAN UNDER A DRUG
she CLAIMS TO HAVE BEEN KID
MAPPED AT ATLANTA.

Carried Fro m a Train Into Hotel at
WhitesburR and Left With Her
Mother by Two Unknown Men-She
Claims to Know Nothing Concerning
Her Journey.
CARRoLLToN, GA, March 20.-News OF
an exceedingly sensational and mysterious
affair reached here from Whitesburg this
morning. The parties to the affair are poor
but respectable, and its great mystery mas
caused much sensation at Whitesburg. Inc
affair was kept secret at first, but 1t has
leaked out at last Last Friday night about
10 o'clock when the Bull train, which runs
between Cedartown and Griffin, reached
Whitesburg two unknown men lifted a
woman off the train and carried her into
the Harris house. They called for Mrs.
Bentley, a poor but highly respected
woman who lives at the hotel, and the
woman put off by the men proved
to be her daughter. The latter
was nearly wild. She had on no shoes nor
wrap, and her riding habit was badly dis
arranged. Her appearance caused big
sensation and CONSERVATION at the hotel,
which is kept by Mrs. N. F. Harris aud her
daughters. The woman's name is Mrs. Ida
Mitchell and she has been living in At
Ianta for some months. acting as house,
keeper for some hotel AS already stated,
she was wild when she was carried into her
mothers room and DR.. J. b. Camp,
prominent physician of the town, was i'm
mediately summoned. A thorough ex-
animation was made and Dr. Camp pro-
nounced the woman under the influence Of
some narcotic.
BOTTLE OF LAUDAEUM.
Her mother examined a small hand
sachel that was fastened on the woman's
arm when she as brought into the hotel
and found bottle of laudanum ABOUT one
half full. Mrs. Mitchell knew no one. She
IS the mother Of a girl years old. The
child was not with her and she could tell
nothing of the child or where she came
from. The doctor worked on her the re-
msinder of the night and Saturday morn
ing she had recovered enough to give out
some information, and her tale shows that
q heinous crime had been committed, but
by whom is a mystery. She says
she left her work last Wednesday
in Atlanta and went to visit her sister-in-
law, who lives at No. q TattnRn street,
and after her arrival at her sisteT-in-law's
she has no recollection Of anything that
transpired till Saturday morning at 10
mothers room at the Harris house in
Whitesburg. She says she has faint recol-
lection of being somewhere and hearing
train blow, and somebody took hold of her
arm violently and told her that her train
was coming and for her to get on. She also
says she can remember that some one
gave her bottle and told
her 10 drink fit, or sha would die. She
says she don't know how, nor when she left
her sister -in-law's home in Atlanta, nor
when or where she took the train for
Whitesburg. She would have been COM
PEELED to have changed cars to come TO
Rhitesburg. II she went on the Central
she would have changed cars at Griffin. II
she went via the Atlanta and West Point
road she would have changed cars at New
nan. The MORNING NEWs correspondent
has made every effort TO see the conductor
on the train which brought Mrs. Mitchell
20 Whitesburg but has failed.
MRS. NITCHELL's HISTORY.
Mrs. Mitchell has been married twice, the
frs time TO man with four children, who
afterwRrd proved TO have another wife that
he was never divorced from, and she quit
him and has been earning her livelihood as
3 hcusekeeper at some hotel in Atlanta.
Her second husband was named Ivey. Mrs.
Aitchsll is only % years old and is
beautiful. See lived at Banning,
near " hites0urg, for several years,
and was OF good character, and
had macy friends and associates. She
visited her mother at Whitesburg in Jan-
usry. She says she did not intend - come
TO VI hitesburg at this time and can't tell
why, nor how she came. Her little daughter
Maud has been living with her and the last
seen OK the child was when the mother was
at the home Of her sister-in-law on Tattnail
street. 1t is thought that Mrs. Mitchell
was drugged by some one and the child kid
naped. 1t Us said that her husbands peo-
pie have been wanting the child. The whole
affair is mystery. Mss Ellen
Bentley, sister Of Mrs. Mitchell, eft
Saturday for Atlanta to search for the
child and ascertain the cause Of Mrs. Mitch
ellis being drugged. A telegram has been
received from Miss Bentley, stating that
she had found the child and requesting
Mrs. Mitchell TO come to Atlanta at once.
Who the two men were who carried Mrs
Mitchell to the hotel is a mystery. 1t may
be that they we're the parties who brought
her from Atlanta, and their names and
what they might know would clear up the
whole mystery. hrs. Mitchell must have
had company all the way from Atlanta to
WhItesburg, or she could not have made the
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