The evening times., 1896-12-22
ONE woMANs ADVENTURE.
Made to Appear Insane by n Daring
and Nervy Scamp.

you may talk atfmt any woman being
able to travel about the world alone,
said a man who came 10 Washington with
the opening of Congress, but / want -
tell you a true story that mace I.ie change
my mind on that yerT POINT.
1T has not been soivery long ago that a
Young married woman of my acquaintance
went to ore of the small Western cities
of Pennsylvania. She. and her husband
lived in Philadelphia. He had gone 10
another city OF far from the Cne in which
she was visiting, and 1t was arranged by
letter that she should get Oh the train
and start home IN time Tor him to board
the 81 ne train when it reached his place.
The woman was pretty and was dressed
quite stylishIy and becomingly. While she
was naturally liable to arouse the interest
of any man who saw her, she was not In
the least forward, and never gave the
slightest excuse for any advances.
ION the afternoon OF her starting for
home she waited at the station in comp pany
with a large party all anxious for the train.
a tdIl maj, r.i0atr Tiasaiiy, "a, cNDensiN ciy
dressed was in the crowd, and he per-
sisted in watching the young woman
when she boarded the train he got in
the same car Almost all of the seats
were full and 1t was easy for him to
drop into the same seat with her. He, Of
course, asked permission to do SO at the
voicc, however, that it would have been
impossible for those around to hear what
he s1id had they even been paying at
tention.
No sooner had the train started than
he drew ii paper from his pocket and be
gan to read After going some distance
he asked permission to put down the win
dow, this also in very low tone OF voice.
and he reached over without those about
noticing that he had said anything. Within
"A mile of the next station he leaned over
and whispered to the woman.
You are going TO get off with me
al this station he said.
''She looked around at him in too great
a;nazcment to reply at first. Then she
started to leave the seat, but he placed
himself in such a manner that is was i'm
possible for her to get out. Just at this
point the conductor caule along. The
woman was ON the point of calling to him
when the man half stood up in his seat
and stopped him.
q This Il my wife,, he said in a low
tone. but purposely loud enough for those
crazy. ! am sorry to say. and | am Just
now taking her to santiariun. We get
off at the next station, and ] hope you
will be kind enough to help me to per
sua1e her to 20 without creating scene.
| think She is beginning to anticipate where
Sle Is gong sne utts not recbFuiZe iilc
at all, and thinks am not her husband
The stranger said all this in such
sad tone and he appeared SO genteel that
he immediately enlisted the synpathies of
all about, and Incidentally brought them
upon the young woman who was sup
posed to be his wife and to he crazy. IL
was. therefore, not strange that when
the woman, attempted toateu her story
she was looked upon. with pity. and the
more frantic She became the more con
yinccd We're tiiose about her or the truth
of the story OF the nian
When the station was reached she be
gan to realize perfectly well the position
in which she was placed, and finally de-
cided that the thing to do was to go along
peaceably, trusting to future develop
ments for her salvation.
she was hurried into a cab and the
train moved oR. on.tbe next stop the
husband boarded the train and went
through every car in an attempt to find
his wife. Then he stopped the conductor
and inquired If such a person had boarded
the train. From the description he gave
and the fact that the woman had said when
beng jaSeu from Jhe. UTain size was
going to meet her husband, the conductor
began to realize that she was the victim
of some terrible scheme.
"A special engine immediately en-
gagged and hurried run made to the
station at which the woman was taken off.
Detectives We're employed. and after
hard afternoons search the man and wo-
man were located, Just as the abductor
was on the point of taking her to New
York over another railroad, and still under
the guise that she was his insane wife.