The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-01
ROMANCE, NOT TRAGEDY.
STORY OF MISS LOUISE KINGS
QUEER EsCAPADE.

Her Parents Wished Her to Marry a
Man She Did Not LOve-she Disap-
peared From COney Island, Went
to Philadelphia, and Finally Re
turned Home TO BecOme a Bride.
Two weeks ago Miss Louise King, a
beautiful young woman of New York, dis
appeared from Coney Island. 1t was
thought she had been drowned. The po-
lice declined 10 accept the drowning the
DRY. And they were right She had run
away to Philadelphia. And when at last
she had worried her family so that each
and every member of II was on the point
of collapse through anxiety, and her moth
er and eldest brother were III in bed, this
strange girl wrote to her lover s. Lloyd
Chamberlain, to come to her in Philadel-
phia, where she had been all the time,
knowing perfectly well what was going
on.
Her excuse for this Is that her home
was unhappy; that her father was bound
to have her marry a man she did not
love, and that, rather than do this, she
determined to let the earth swallow her
up, leaving her family and friends to be-
lieve her at the bottom of the ocean. Her
plans for the future, so nearly as they
can be learned were to escape. to Europe,
finish her musical education there, and
then-but she goes no further.
It is known now that she had worked
out the plot in all it's minutest details, be-
ginning weeks before it was carried into
effect, says the New York Press. She
went to the Adrondacks on Aug with a
party, returning on Aug. 10. While on
that trip she worked out the details of
her escape She kept a dressmaker con-
stantly at work preparing an entire new
wardrobe. so that when she disappeared
those who searched her belongings in her
Harlem home found not one article miss
ing.
Then she bought two trunks and had
them shipped TO her. Into these she put
her new wardrobe, brought 1t home with
her and when asked by her family how
she came by the extra trunks said they be-
longed to two OF her friends who had not
yet opened their town houses, and to whom
she was to send them as soon as they
were ready for them. This, of course, the
parents took as gospel truth.
When the girl disappeared her mother
said all, the daughters jewels were safe
at home. II is known now that, so far
from this being the case, every jewel was
missing, and, of course, this fact must
have made it clear to the family that the
girl was probably alive to wear them
though the brother, William F. King,
worked constantly on both theories, say
ing that while he believed his sister to he
dead he was not able to take it for grant
ed.
Louise King took every precaution with
hatf in he nd fhoVv Is1 tn
her detection. For hours before 1t was
known where she was the New York po-
lice knew that those trunks had been
shipped to Philadelphia on the Saturday
before she disappeared, and that she had
hired and paid the expressman herself
So il was discovered that she had de
ceived her parents when she said they be-
longed to friends in this city. She even
had picked out her boarding place In the
Quaker City, and ordered the trunks to
be held for her at the Bellevue Hotel
northwest corner of Broad and Walnut
streets. This is the society hotel" of the
city.
And now comes the story of Louise
Kings escape from Coney Island on Sun
day. Sept II, as told by herself As has
been told she had sent two trunks to
Philadelphia with a full new outfit. When
she went TO Coney Island with her maid
Alma L.indstrom, she had pinned under
articles of wearing apparel: Two skirts,
two pairs of stockings, a collarette, a
sailor hat and a thin pair of shoes.
with these articles she felt she could
leave all the clothing she had worn to
Coney Island in the bath-house, and she
did So She even left her corsets there.
She kept on the bathing suit for an I'M
dergarment. and had only to put on the
two skirts, the shoes stockings, collarette
and hat and she was ready to start for
Philadelphia.
This she did as soon as her maid had
gone to put on her bathing suit The mo
ment Alma Lindstrom disappeared Miss
King ran under the iron pier to the third
bathing house beyond Balmers, entered
the retiring room, and in ten minutes was
ready to disappear as though the sea had
swallowed her up,
How was it that none saw you leave
the beach?" asked Mr.. Corwine, when she
was telling him the story.
Il do not know" she replied. 81 walk
ed away ike an antomaton, looking neith-
er TO the right nor the left l returned
TO New York by the same route by which
l had left it. 1 crossed the city without