The Spokane press. [volume] (Spokane, Wash.) 1902-1939, 1904-12-31

Wnlte. This man ana Gray eventu-
ally came to blows. and Gray went
for the police. A police inspector
searched the house. and found Alice
Gray. Pale and trembling, she was
taken home. and there told her father
and sister that she was in the house
/ the first time they called, locked
in closet. She had been threatened
with awful things IL she cried out,
she said.
A few days later Alice went out
to answer an advertisement FOR a
from that day, April 8, until Oct. Is
she was utterly lost to her family.
On April 8. Alice says. White met
her in the street, evidently having
been posted in advance by some
mysterious means, on her errand.
He took her by the arm and marched
her OF to lodgings in Hammer
smith. A few days later they moved
to Brighton. Meantime Gray had
obtained a warrant for Whites ar
rest, and the latter was nabbed while
on a visit to his original place of
business in Kingston. He promised
that if the police would set him free
he would tell them where the girl
was. Gray agreed, and White gave
the Brighton address. Gray and the
police went there, after setting White
free, but
Found an Empty House,
The girl having been spirited away
again to another part Of London.
the girl, she led a life of horror.
White, she says, treated her brutal
ly and shamefully. Letters written
to her and forwarded from the King
ston address were received by White
and destroyed. White never went
she says, when he had locked her
in a room. she broke the lock with
screw driver and hammer she had
secreted. White, she says, appeared
Just as she was escaping from the
room, and took vengence on her by
beating her, and tearing off all her
clothes and slashing her hands with
a razor.
After that she never tried to es-
cape from him,a even though he took
her driving in a pony trap, and
left her alone in 1t while he went
into houses to sell articles. Often,
she says, she would see him peering
around the corner Of house,
stealthily watching her when he
thought she did not see him. His
wife disappeared about this time.
Miss Gray says. She does not know
what became of her. A singular
feature OF the case is that two let
tiers were received by Miss Gray's
father, both declaring that she was
we'll and comfortable. She declares
that she wrote them under Whites
hypnotic influence.
Always Carried a Razor. 800.
in his pocket. At this place he did
most OF his business by mail, seldom
leaving the house.
After six months Of indefatigable
search Gray and his daughter Kate
finally traced White to the house In
footing. He had fed when the res
cue party arrived, and Alice Gray
| was dragged out of a window. The
| police are now trying to find White
whose real name is Strenberg. Miss
GRAY is with friends in little vii
lage in Surry. She and her friends
| declare that White has spies in this
, little village who are watching hel
movements and have made overtures
for her to return to White.
This goth century Svengali Is de.
scribed by Miss Gray as being q
slender man, of middle height, with
dark brown hair and mustach
covering a mouth that never closed
his teeth always showing. His eyes
are large and dark and seemed tt
flashe red when he was angry"