The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-19
HER STORY A SAD One
MABEL DAvIDsoN's TERRIBLE Elk
PERIENCE IN DENVER, WHERE
SHE SOUGHT HEALTH
FAR FROM ALL HER FRIENDS
Her Property Was Slowly Absorbed
and Her Supposed Friends Sent
Her Home Destitute-A Small
Fortune Vanishes I'm q Few Short
Months--Sho Seeks to Recover
a Part.

S1ngularly sad Is the story Of Mabel
Davidson, who is now at st. Luke's
hospital in this city, the home of her
childhood, awaiting the end which
must come all too soon for her friends,
as the young woman, formerly so ro-
bust and athletic, Is now wasting away
under the ravages of disease.
mabel Davidson, as a skater, is
known all over America and Europe,
AND was the idol of Paris for not lit
tie period. Her course from the time
she learned to skate, as q small girl
was onward and upward to heights Of
fame' or which she had hardly dream
ed.
few short weeks ago a subscription.
taken UP by L. N. Scott, of this city,
brought back to her home the wreck
or q girl whose savings Of happier days
have been spent in trying to stay the
rayages Of an insidious malady.
Last January begins the saddest part
OF her story. At the solicitation of q
woman whose acquaintance she had
made In Baltimore, but who had since
removed to Denver, Miss Davidson
went to the Colorado metropolis to sea
II the climate there would not help
her. Mrs. Dean, a friend from this
city, accompanied her, as did fou
trunks laden with the accommodations of
several years untiring industry There,
were presents from acquaintance OH
two continents, a wardrobe that any
woman might envy, including both
street, ball room and skating costumes,
several hundred dollars worth Of dia.
monds and considerable sum OF
money.
Mrs. Dean left Mabel in Denver with
her supposed friends, Mr. and Mrs.
Pinney. The former is the organist
of church in that city. He has also
been engaged in the insurance business.
When Miss Davidson, told by her
physician that she could not live mora
than three weeks, came home to St.
Paul, there was brought with her one
dress and some photographs IN one
trunk, together with some odds and
ends of no commercial value.
All the rest, Mabel says, has passed
into the possession Of the Pinneys,
some Of the money loaned, some under
duress, and some, she believes, by de-
lberate larceny. Communication of
her troubles to her relatives here was
impossible, as her letters were opened
after they left her, she being Ill in bed
and unable to defend herself
Miss Davidson's relatives in this city
have consulted legal advice and an eff
fort is to be made to secure the restitu-
ton Of the property which has been
obtained from her wrongfully.
Pinney has in his possession a paper
In which the sick girl signs to him or
his wife all her property, which, it Is
claimed, she was forced to sign under
threats. Suspicion was aroused among
her friends here when Mabel wrote
home for her bicycle, there being some
question as to what a girl who was
sick IN bed would want with a wheel.
That has gone the way of the dia-
monds, dresses and the rest, including
property valued, at a low valuation, at
$3.50. diamonds amounting TO $3.50, and
note signed by a business woman Of
Paris for $780,