Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1905-08-02


Mrs. Clara S. Hamblin of Anna,
Shelby county, Ohio. has made an ap-
peal to the st. Louis police TO rescue
her daughter, Marian Emmons. whom
she declares is being held in the wilds
of Arkansas near Barfield.
kilograms and letters were sent to
the authorities at Barfield, Blythcville
and Hickman, asking them to take up
the investigation.
Advertisements Mrs. Hamblin SAYS.
called for young lady to act as
, companion to an elderly woman at
her summer home In Arkansas. Miss
Emmons is to be married to John
Graf of Alhambra ILL.,. and. her moth
er writes, considered this an oppor-
tunity to earn sufficient money to buy
trousseau.
She went to a house on Franklin
avenue, near Grand. and there met a
man about 20 years old He said he
wanted a companion for his sister.
Miss Emmons accepted the offer and,
according to her mother. accompa-
MED him to Barfeld
In letter which she managed to
get TO her mother. Miss Emmons told
how she met a girl named Witt. at
Barfield who advised her to get away
and not to accompany him farther
She declared that she was watched
and had no opportunity to escape.
Her prison home, she says, is four
miles from Barfield in a thinly settled
district a mile from the Hickman
postoffice It Is a mile from the main
road and in a dense wood
Mrs Hamblin says she has written
to the authorities in Arkansas offer
ing to pay all expenses if her daugh.
ter was rescued. but has received no
answer
Chief Desmond remembered COM
plaint of the kind made last Septem-
ber by Miss Viola Karl of No. 1858
Benton street, and found report in
which Miss Karl had answered such
an advertisement, went to the same
place with the man and managed to
escape after finding out the condi
tions.
Miss Karl reported that her cloth
ing was being held and she asked the
police to aid her in recovering it. All
efforts. the police say, to get the Ar
kansas authorities to act in the case
were futile.
In the event of further failure, Gov.
Folk may be requested to take the
matter up with Gov. Davis Of Arkan-
sas.
A dispatch from Little Rock, last
night. said that the city marshal at
Blytheville had been asked to investi-
gate the case and that he reported
that a woman answering to the de-
scription of the girl was working for
a family near that point.
He said no charges have been pre-
ferred against the employers, and
that the man, whose name answers to
that mentioned by Mrs Hamblin. had
not been arrested. He also said that
the girl did not appear to be mis-
. treated
Girl Tells Her Experience.
Miss Viola Karl, pretty eighteen
year-old girl, residing at No. 1853
Benton street, came. near coming un
|, der the immediate influence of man
at Barfeld Ark, last fall, according
, to her story.
Miss Karl answered an advertise
ment for lady's companion and
/ went to No. 1907 Franklin avenue ir
; answer. She met the man and ar
= rangements were made for her to &c
. to his Arkansas home as companion
? to his wife.
: Miss Karl states that allurins
2 promises were made to induce her t
r accept the position, being told tina
e her duties would consist merely II
a companying the wife on her drive
] and cOnyerSlng and readlnS Wltn he
h throughout the hours at home. Mis-
s Karl says that the man represente
Y himself as being very wealthy. and
2 large land owner.
IL Miss Karl made arrangements t
d go to his Arkansas home, where h
e is said to cwn large cotton plants
e tion.
a. She was seventeen years OF ag'
s. and states that he promised to ne
S. $40 a month, her clothes and boart
IS She states that the offer was for tn
re very best of clothing, it being unde
stood that there was to be nothln