The morning call., 1894-01-06

1t was in the hallway that she spoke and in
the half-light the young heiress looked like
a pretty unaffected girl, simply dressed.
who was possessed of a sweet voice and
spoke slowly through nervousness or tim
idlty.
The reporter was ushered into a parlor
Hooded with sunlight and few moments
later Miss SaDkey entered the room &C
companied by her friend, Mrs. Charles
Coggins.
You will excuse me if speak SLOWLY"
sald the young girl smiling. Il am suffer
ing just at present from a stroke OF paral-
ysis that makes il little difficult for me
to frame some of the words" AS she
made this remark Miss Sankey smiled so
hopefully and lntelligently that it was
evident that if a courageous will and
cheerful temper can restore her 20 health
she viii recover
Carrie will speak for THE CALL" said
Mrs. COggins, rising and tenderly wrap
ping warm shawl round the little heir
ess, because she has been so prosecuted
maligned and cruelty spoken of that she
! has no objection to tell her story now
that the strain of anxiety is over and that
people who have doubted the truth of her
words may know by the money coming
to her that the story which she has clung
10 was fact. Now, Carrie, you can tell
something o your life"
Sluwly and hesitatingly as to speech,
but with marked intelligence and will.
something - evidently sincere in her man
ner as to carry absolute conviction with it,
Miss Sankey gave her history.
MY mother died when l was only a few
| weeks old, she said. Mother belonged
to different stock from my father, whose
family were not refined, though my father,
! being the youngest of all the brothers. had
received something OF an education
| There was no intercourse between my
| fathers and my mothers families
| 4 OH C. I,
and maternal uncle took me TO live with
him. Three years later my fathers elder
brother, Samuel Sankey, came from Cali
fornia TO Pennsylvania. He had lost his
only son and wanted to adopt me. This
! uncle with whom / lived absolutely re-
| fused, but by bribing one of the servants
| Samuel Sankey managed to kidnap me-
'Ah! that was a terrible time. was
! taken to Harrisburg and hidden in garrets
and cellars, for my other uncle had taken
the case into the courts and a search was
! being made for me. / was eventually
taken across the borders OF the State to the
home of my fathers and Samuel Sankey's
! sister, Mrs. ArOnWolf.
''Ob, yes, they received me with open
arms at first, but Samuel Sankey left me
there for awhile. He got into prison in a
| Southern town and for months sent neither
money nor letters. Then nv aunt began
to treat me like an outcast. / was the SER
wants drudge, the errand-girl for the
whole establishment, for she was and still
/ is rich"
Miss Sankey went on to narrats how her
uncle had served his term of six months
IN prison, and after returning to Mrs.
Aronwolf's and adopting her, brought her
to California. For while she was happy
| in his house. though both Samuel Sankey
and his wife greved necessarily for the
son whom they had lost before Carrie
| knew them.
AT last this ineessant mourning affected
the aunts brain, and she was sent to the
! Napa asylum. Before being declared in
! sane, however, she had taken TO beating
and otherwise i'll treating her niece.
Samuel Sankey followed his wife's exam
| pie, and between the two the friendless
girl lead life Of constant terror.
After the aunt was committed to the
asylum the uncle, who, though he had
made fortune IN California, was exceed
ingly parsimoniOus, still con tinued TO i'll
treat aud partly staTve his adopted daugh-
ter.
At last Carrie made friend in the per-
son of Mrs. Charles Coggins, who, with
her husband, took some rooms which Sam
, uel Sankey had TO spare in his residence
on Nineteenth and Jessie streets. W hen
the daily, hourly blows and curses came
she would hide the prosecuted child under
the dresses in her wardrobe.
I'VE do not blame my uncle" said Miss
SankeV yesterday. HE was insane and
not accountable for his actions. At last
my aunt died and he determined to kill
me. He prepared knotted rope and lured
me into the basement one day when Mrs.
C"ggins was Out. Luckily, however, l had
suspected trap and had taken the key
out o. the door so that, though he beat me
terribly, l managed TO escape.
For TWO days Mrs. C"ggins hid me, and
then we applied to the police, as my uncle
was determ ned 10 kill me. Finally was
handed over 10 the Society for the Pre-
yention of Cruelty TO Children and put
into situation. Then my health gave
way. was not strong enough TO do hard
work, and alone and fTiendless, who
knows what wonId have heeoma NJ ma If