The Clarksburg telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1874-1926, 1895-03-08
.DECOYS
HANDSOME YOUNG LADY.
10 His i"me aud Keeps Her 10 Secret
for a Week

10 His H"me aud Keeps Her 10 secret
for Week
WHITES DAY, March {, Some
time ago. presumably in the
month of December. an adver
tisement was inserted in q Pitts.
burg paper desiring employment
as a painter Of Photographs or
tutor in drawing, by a young
lady Of Allegheny City, then
teaching N the public schools of
that city. lt was answered by
Mahlon .. Stephens, who repre-
sentcd himself as a prominent
farmer with wife and family of
children, and an amateur photo
grapher, who had a number of
pictures he would like TO have
painted, and an instructor for his
children, and Offering TO pay $50.
per month and a home in his
family After the correspond
ence the young lady, a Miss Hus.
ton, accepted the proposition
and arranged to come ON Ger.
tain train and for him to meet
her at the station at Little Falls,
astation between Fairmont and
Morgantown. She arrived al
the station on the night train at
10 o'clock, OF December 26th and
inquired for Mr., Stephens, ex
pecting TO meeta conveyance for
her and her baggage She was
met by HIM, and an excuse made
for having no team said re would
carry her satchel and send for
her trunk on the morrow. There
was then two or three inches of
snow on the ground and showing
hard, and about three miles to
go. He said they would walk TO
the first neighbours and get a
horse for her TO ride. They
came 10 the home of Mrs. Mary
Deyault, (the lady being tagged
out, her skirts wet with her mile
and a half tramp in the snow.
He went in andprocured a horse,
representing he had a cousin
outside that he wished to take
home. Arriving in sight OF his
cabin he told her that his wife
and children had gone from home
but would be there in the morn
nag. 1t midnight. and in the
snow. not knowing where She
was at, she was obliged to take
shelter for the night. He told
her to go in and he would care
for the horse and treat her as a
brother after which she says he
threatened her with a revolver
if she tried to make her presence
known. The snow became so
deep and she was under such
Surveillance that she could not
escape. and for a week he kept
her thus, but once going out in a
sled one evening, and then. she
says. with rope round her waist,
tied fast and a threat of death If
she screamed when passing q
house. He took her tca house
above Clinton Furnace and kept
her over night. AT her first OPP
portpnity she says in his absence
she fed and came to Mrs. De
vaults and related the above
story, where she was fortunately
met by her cousin, a Mr.Simpson,
postal CLERK on the road, who
was on the hunt of her. She
told him her story and said that
she did not know what to do, as
she had no money to get away,
Stephens having taken from her
SIT, all the money she had. She
went with her cousin to Morgan
town, and they telegraphed to
her father and brother who came
and had her make complaint and
have a warrant issued for his ar
reft, ana they took her home.
Stephens is widower with no
family, improperly and no credit
The sheriff has been looking for
him. but three weeks ago he left
in the night He stayed at a
house on his way to Preston
county and his present where
abouts is NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
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