Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1894-02-09

via H. Green, % years old, is tall,
plain featured young woman, who
has o fortune Of S5,O0O,0GO in her
own right. besides being prospect
i've sharer, with her brother, in her
mother''s vast estate. The four mem.
bers Of this queer family are most OF
the time domiciled under four roofs,
thanks to the mothers eccentric par.
simony.
AND NOW SHE is GONE.
The above account of Mrs. Hetty
Green. tue richest woman in America
WAS published in the New York Sun
some days ago. aud now, right upon
the top of this comes the startling
news that she has disappeared mys
teriously and has perhaps been alb
Quoted and held for ransom. The
New York Herald says:
She occupied third story rear hall
room in the boarding. house of Mrs.
A. + Bonita, ut No. 80 Pierrepont
street, Brooklyn, five days ngo. She
paid 81 n week for the room, and is
said to have eaten her meals in the
kitchen. Her residence ut this writ.
ing is unknown. She became alarm.
ed in the early part of last week over
the fact that her living place had
been discovered. That was enough
for Hetty Green. She packed her
few belongings, pal her reckoning
and was OFF before Landlady Bonita
could utter II reInonBtrance. She did
not leave her future address. Mrs.
Green has therefore sunk as com
pletely out of sight, so FIR as the
curious public is concerned, us il she
had never Gust the lustre of hei
riches and unique personality around
the fastidious residents of Brooklyn
Heights.
IL ID asserted on good authority
that OH last Tuesday Mrs. Bonita re.
celved an anonymous letter bearing n
New York postinark, which contain.
ed warning for the wealthy board
er. The letter WAS buddy spelled and
was evidently the work of au litter
ate person. Nobody has seen it cave
Mrs. Bonita, her daughter and Mrs,
Green herself. Mrs. Bonita, it is
said, had to enlist her daughters
service in deciphering the letter.
In substance the letter stated that
number of notorious New York
'crooks" had batched out scheme
to abduct Mrs. Green, convey her to
some out of the way spot already
ngreed upon, and hold her for al ex
orbitaut ransom. The abduction was
to be accomplished at night, and the
letter went 30 far as to intimate that
the desperadoes had located Mrs.
Green's sleeping apartments aud
void not hesitate to break into it,
chloroform the lady and bear her
away i'll their arms to waiting car.
riage,
1t will be inferred that both Mrs.
Bonita and her daughter were very
much frightened by the blood curd
ling terms OF this remarkable letter.
As rule Mrs. Bonita would not in
cline to place much store upon threats
of this kind, but in Mrs. Green's case
she felt q peculiar responsibility.
knowing what temptation hcr guests
uncounted wealth offered tho un
scrnpulous, she did not moment
doubt the possibility of an attempt
ut an abduction such as that limited
at in the letter. She therefore de
ternined to place the matter before
Mrs. Green, leaving her to act in the
premises as she thought best.
1t is not known how Mis-. Green
received the intelligence of the plot
against her. The parties to the af
fair nre reticent as to these particu
lars. She probably, however, made
up her mind to seek another dwell
ing MS soon as possible. and that she
did not do so instanter may be &C
counted for on the ground that GER
tain private business had to be at
tended to first. Mrs. Bonita, it is
said, urged Mrs. Green to invoke the
protection of the Brooklyn police
but it can easily be imagined that
the latter laughed this suggestion to
scorn. Mrs Green, as well known
does not court the attention of the
police. She il afraid of the publicity
that might ensue and prefers above
all things TO do her own detective
work In her own way.
AT this point begins a most re-
markable chapter of this curious
story. 1t is positively asserted that
Mrs. Green. wishing to spend n
couple OF days more at Mrs. Bonita.
house, resolved to SECURE the services
of two special guards to watch owe,
her day and night until she was
ready to fly to new quarters. Such
proceeding was most unusual fol
Mrs. Green, but there is good eyi
; dence to show that she really adopt
ed this cou SO.
, The story as current in Brookly,
Yesterday was that upon hearing OF
:, che anonymous letter Mrs. Green,