The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-06-24


chllo was pressed into service and re-
CURED TO attend to the wants of the men
though ever treated with respect and
Kindness By all. 1872
ROMANCE OF A BORDER DESPERATE
During this time Lulu learned from diff
ierent members of the band-though not
from Edwards himself, who always re-
FUSED 70 speak on the sub,ect-that her
doductor was himself an Englishman by
olrtn and breeding. He himself was of
gentle If not of noble blood. and had once
oeen an admirer of Lulu's mother before
her marriage. But in this case also the
pride of the old mother had been an OBJ
stac!e, and In his despair at the failure
OF ms SUIT he had removed to America.
coming west, he had met with reverses
which had deprived him of his patri-
hony- and falling III by chance with the
pand OF bandits, he had become one of
thelr number. His boldness and audacity
hao excited the admiration of the rough
men with whom he associated, and when
IN the attempted preparation of some
particularly daring crime their leader had
1allen, Edwards was chosen to take the
place OF the dead man. How he succeeded
IN tracing LuIu's mother and grand
mother TO their adopted home, when
others had so utterly failed, is unknown.
out the fact remains that he did so. Sew
erai OBJECTS moved him to abduct the
enid one was desire to revenge him
sell upon the naughty old woman who
had thwarted the brightest hope of his
ne, and another was the knowledge that
the grandmother wealth was such that
she could well afford to pay a royal ran
som for the return of the little girl But
the child was as nearly the counterpart
OF her mother as it is possible for
two persons of such different ages to be,
ana this led to a material change in his
plans. The old, long-buried love which
ne haQ borne for the mother revived as
ne saw that this captive was the counter
part OF its former object, and he renounced
his idea of returning her to her grand
mother, deciding instead to watch over
her until she grew older and then make
her his wife. When the child learned
these things from Edwards companions,
she became possessed of an intense desire
to escape, for the life and occupation of
the man inspired in her an unconquerable
repugnance to him. On several occasions
she attempted to fly, but each time with
out success, being Overtaken before she
had proceeded more than few miles.
Finally, during the seventh year of her
captivity and near it's close, she succeeded
In evading the vigilance of her jailers
enough to send word TO a eighboring
ranch owner. The latter, though a rough,
plain old farmer, was touched by the It'd
ings the girl sent him of her long service
for the bandits, and he told her story to
several of his neighbors. 1t was decided
to make an organized attempt to rescue
the child, and elaborate preparations
were made to accomplish this, the plan
including the scheme of decoying the
greater part of the robbers from their re-
sort by tale of heavy Shipment of trea-
sure over stage route a dozen miles
away
FORCED TO MARRY A BANDIT.
All would have gone well and the girl
would in all proba bility have been
rescued from her fate had it not been for
the imprudence of the wife of one the
farmers engaged in the plan. 1t hap
pened that man who had but a short
time before become a member of the
band stopped at the house of this rancher
for drink of water The farmer was
absent, and his wife asked the stranger
who he was. The latter replied that he
was from the eastern states, and had but
a few days before arrived in Colorado,
and that he had filed upon a
piece OF government land near
by The woman, imagining that
she saw prospective recruit
for the rescuing party, sounded him on the
subject and finally, under his seeming
earnestness to assist, unfolded the entire
plan so far as she knew it, The bandit
Immediately informed Edwards and the
latter FASTENED to the cave, got Lulu and
took her overland some forty miles north
to a country justice of the peace, before
whom he compelled the l4-year-old girl to
become his wife. Fearing the man greatly,
she assented, and thus forged the bonds
by which Edwards held her for another
four years.
At the end of this time a farmer, who
lived with his family on ranch in the
neighborhood, became interested in the
girl and succeeded in gaining Edwards
friendship. He frequently visited the
cave, and on one of these occasions he in
duced the robber captain to allow Lula
to go home with him and spend few
days with his wife. Edwards, installing
his child-wife's helpless submission to his
never doubling that she would be willing
to return at the end of the time set for
her visit. But this was the greatest mis-
take of his later life, for no sooner had
she driven out of sight OF the cave with
the farmer than another road, leading
to Canyon City, was taken. Antici-
pating escape, she had provided her
self with money from Edwards store,
and at Canyon City she took train for
HueDlO, Wu6E6 lIN6u oOlllC lHtltl1clIO II lCAlSio
of the farmer, who assisted her to es-
cape, and to these people she brought
letter of introduction. They received
her warmly, and for some time she re-
manned with them, only leaving their
home to take up her residence with the
family with whom she now is, This was
seven wears ago. After living in Pueblo
two years, she became convinced that her
robber husband had failed to track her,
and so she quietly made application for
divorce. This was soon granted, with
permission to resume her maiden name
of Lula Harron.
DOES NOT KNOW HER TRUE NAME.
During Miss Harrolls captivity her
grandmother in Alton had died, leaving
no papers or other articles tending to
show her true name. Altogether this
places Miss Harroll in most remarkable
position. She has every reason to believe
that she is an heiress to large estates and
an old and distinguished name, yet she is
unable to prove her rights, and has no
idea which one of the many unclaimed
estates in England is hers. Neither has
she any information regarding her father,
nor means of obtaining it. She has but
single ray of hope, and that, to most peo-
nile. appears a very faint one, although
She has unbounded faith in it. Some two
months ago a noted spiritualist and trance
medium held a series of seances in
pueblo and Miss Harroll consulted him,
simply asking him what he could tell her,
without reciting her history to him. And
If must also be remembered that at this
time not more than three or four persons