The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1905-08-08

Chief Irwin and Officer Y~ounghlood
Outwitted and Outrun BY a Buxunf
Young Lady Vito Runs at Lar.c i'm
the Woods.

There is a wild woman running loose
in the woods near Biddle University.
1t is not the man from Borneo, but he
girl from Pennsylvania, this time Tse
naire ana good TO look upon, is as lieet
as a deer and as cunning as a dear.
She has nut-bro yn arms and ruby
cheeks and strange ways.
rs that $50" asked a quick, sharp
voice owe the telephone yesterday af-
ternoon
1T is" said The genial G. F. Duke,
the day turnkey at the police station
wei, tell the chief hat the woman
was seen a few minutes ago.. Tell HIN,
TO come and come quick.
1t was from Seversville that the
call came and the chief and Patrolman
Youngblood answered the summons
and hurried out in the wagon. When
the officers got 10 Biddle they fouEd
several colored persons ready TO give
information about a woman h had
been seen on the Barringer lands be-
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ter gathering what facts they could
Chief Irwin and Officer Youngblcod
travelled down the Beauties Ford road
for quite a distance and then turned
across the fields in the direction OF a
pool room where the young woman
had recently been seen bathing in COM
pany with two men. But on looking
far ahead they saw the clipper maiden
standing on a bridge in the road. AS
the off approached she took to her
heels and fed like something wild. n
passed by the home of a negro. Oliver
Peeler, and disappeared in b pines,
and was making tracks in a hurry
when last seen. Her chief purpose was
to dodge her pursuers, and h sue
ceeded, for when the officers had gone
far into the woods she reappeared be-
hind them and started on the run in
the opposite direction. She entered an
other body of timber and kept going,
but Chief Irwin, summoning a posse
of colored people to help, secured the
| country for her. Like hounds they
| trailed her here and there and every
| where, but in vaI3, for she kept far out
of their reach and made good her ts-
cape. The track was lost somewhere
cose to the new waterworks dam.
Agnes Lynch Is the name OF the sirl
| and she claims to be from PennSyl-
vania. She cama here several weeks
! ago from South Carolina, Greenville Or
! Spartanburg, where she claims to nave
| worked in cotton mills. Chief Irwin is
| pretty certain hat he met her on the
streets here SOM time g inquir1nS
for a boarding house. She was asked
what sort of a place she wanted, an I
she replied a decent place She did
! not want to board with cotton mill op
| eratives, she said. For three weeks re-
norris have come TO officers of her pres
ence in certain communities, but no cr'
ganized search has ever been made 1or
her until yesterday. People IN the
neighborhood of Biddle and Stewart
! pond have seen her lurking about and
going from house to house begglne
| something to eat. She sleeps in tnl
woods at night and is often caught IN
; the rain. She has associated with col
! ored people since coming here, and ma
avoided her own people. Chief lrwT
, thinks that the woman, who seems le
be about IS years old, is demented. Snf
: is strong Of body and healthy.
The chase yesterday afternoon con
; timed several hours and must nav
! covered six or seven miles. Inc SIT
was bareheaded but fairly we'll clae
, otherwise. She could Outrun the mef
who followed her ina straight race
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