The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1897-09-08
YOUNG GIRL STOLEN
HEART-RENDING LETTERS TO HER
PARENTS IN FRANCE.

While in Paris, the Young Woman Is In
vited Into Cafe, Drinks and the Mex
Thing She Knows She Is on . Train OF
the Way tn London-She is Brought Il
America aud in BanEio In New York
FlogEed Like sI.vs-PIeads With Hel
Relatives Not to Curse Her, But Away,
to Love Her.
New York, Sept IN Edmond Bron.
waert. Consul General Of France in thi:
city, has rescued from her abductors
one girl OF his country who was lured tc
New York. He is looking for another
and his investigations all go to show
that the traffic in stolen women between
this and foreign countries, has boldly
been resumed.
II. Bronwaert was notified by cable last
April that a girl had been kidnapped in
Paris and would arrive here on the st.
Paul. Miss Mathilde Chatlet, seventeen
years old, a milliner was met in the
streets of Paris by man VINO told her
| that her uncle wanted to see her in a
| certain cafe. Miss Chatelet went there
with the man and found woman there
! TO meet her. While waiting for her un-
Gle she was offered something to drink,
took il, and became unconscious. she
was carried to London and thence to
| Southampton.
She was q smart girl and contrived to
| send a postal card to her parents in
Paris. They Immediately cabled to the
French Consul here, whose agents were
| arriving the arrival Of the ST. Paul on
April 20. On board were NJ Antoine
Augustini and his wife, leila and their
alleged daughter, who was none other
than Mile. Chatelet. The immigration
commissioner said he would not detain
Augustini and his wife, but he did de-
tain the girl. Mr.. Bronwaert sent her
back to her rejoicing parents by the
next steamer.
The case Of Louise Ripp is exactly SIM
liar. she was brought here few months
ago. She sent in May a letter to her
parents, telling them to reply to her un-
der her own name at the General post
office, New York. They sent a letter,
but it was returned to them unclaimed.
Then NJ. Ripp sent his daughters letter
to the French Consulate, forgetting how
ever to send the envelope, which might
be clew 10 her whereabouts. He also
sent a full description Of her. She is
believed to be confined in a disorderly
house, and it appears to be a good case
for Chief McCullagh and Acting Cap
tain McClusky, Of the Detective Bureau,
to take hold of. The girls description
is as follows:
Age sixteen years; height, about five
feet four inches; hair, brown and not
long; eyes, gray; nose, ordinary; mouth,
small; chin, round; face, oval. Marks,
three little scars Of small pox on right
temple, small scar on the upper lip.
Her parents live in Cortell, near Paris.
They ar, Alsatian, and it will be seen
from her letter that she prides herself
on her birth name. She left Paris March
2. Her letter 70 her father and mother
is pathetic in tone. II is written on
sheets OF paper of different sizes, and is
dated May 7th, 1897. 1t reads as fol-
lows:
Ny Dear Beloved Parents:
you ought to be troubled. My beloved
parents, I am in America-in New York.
1 do not know how I got to America.
Has my uncle spoken TO you a bout a man
1t was with man and woman 1 went
away. 1t was the day of Mardi Gras.
This man told me 1 must go to cafe.
where my uncle would meet me. went
there, drank something, and after that
knew no more. All that I know is that
found myself In a. train on the way to
London.
There wanted to get away. but had
no opportunity, for that woman was al
ways with me and never left me.
On. dear parents! now that I am In
New York 1 am weary to death, for 1
think of you, You who have had so much
trouble in bringing me up. You ought to
be crazy about me, not knowing where
I am.
On, how sad am when think of you,
poor father and poor mother, Do not
curse me. for your child is as sad as you
1 think Of you as you think of me. Soon
1 shall see you again, for 1 tell my story
to every one who knows French. One
woman has befriended me and says she
will take me back to France.
Above all. dearly beloved parents, love |
me always as 1 love you, for I believe |
that you do not doubt your child will |
ever love you.
You know my character, dear father, !
and mother. On, my beloved ones, do not |
curse me. Love me always; never forget |
me; think always OF me; do not call me |
an migrate. for alas, cry every day. |
ask myself every moment what zpu are |
doing, and alas see you dear father, 50 |
well beloved, and you. dar mother. whom |
adore. always weeping for me, always !
speaking of me. And am always think |
ing of YOU
Oh! how weary am. and now / think |
Of you! How I wish had never been in |
that Paris, I wish I had always re-
mained with You. never 10 leave you.
But it is no; my fault for they made ,
me believe their story. I would like TO
mprison these people, but dare not. I |
have preferred TO submit 10 all their tor
,u-ings. to all the misery cannot speak
D. But when I hall get some money
1T least this woman will take me away
to France.
Above all, father, do not curse me: do
nOt call me ungrateful, for you know
hat I lose YOU too much TO think OF
saving You.
Dear, beloved mother, when I 60 to
you I will weep upon your bosom with
Jog. Oh. that il were tomorrow, %
lot make yourself III. cry no more. AS
or me, I shall weep. for tears relieve
ne
After being here eight days I became
i With grief and I was sent into the