The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-02-16

"A Rich Young Lady Kidnapped
and Held by Force.
A LORDS DAUGHTER.


"'S" AiS Wh pc Na
vealed Says the Detes.
tives.
With detective seeking wealthy
member Of we'll kaown country Stub
In N " York, guarding all names
with the greatest care, through police
sou- oas was revealed q tale OF romance
and adventure which would have
commended itself to Wilkie Collins.
The natural daughter of an English
LORD, kidnapped In private yaeh6 oG
the COAST OF Japan, 10 In @ saniteriuin.
In &hfB country ravin2 maniac from
her experience. Tue club member In
accused of the kidnapping. Back OF
1T ia tho tale of o contested estate IN
volving the lord, French countess.
an old sea captain and the man want.
ca. NO names were given by the po-
lice, but will be later on.
MOT Line was revealed at polios
heao q lsrtefs exoept to admit that
Detective Sergeant WakeG,li was Out
ON q most extraordinary Gaze. "Nob
name" WAS Inspector MoLaughlin's
announcement, until the man ia
found. ID will then all come out''.
Wakefield was not 40 headQ asrters,
He appeared on the Jefferson market
police court Sasurday. With him vera
sovorsl strangers The desaotiva SER.
geane privately obsained warrant
tfaer reniting fecss at some length to
bhe mag iStrate. He departed immed.
lately, saying then thai when ha
oauyht his man there would be full
Explanation.
The story aa 1t triokeld out Wednes
day, stripped Of names, is that an
Eag!ish nobleman while travelling In
Tianoe, In 1875, met o woman who
Hf0srWard became the mother of n
Child, This child, girl, was taken to
ENglRrd by the nooleman, who, af-
qer keeping her apart from his family
for some little time, consented TO her
adoption by q sea captain. This cap
ealn was In charge OF o. rner0ilanbrnan
plying between London aud Yokoha.
ma. a countess, o nembar OF the
Isamily. lie in aomss way conoerned IN
g IE;sse eKstss but 1.-The POL ice sgill NOT
The daughter, brought up at Yoko
hama, taking an occasional sea trip
with her adopted father, is said TO
have come often In oontaotwita her
real father, who lived on an English
estate. More recently this child was
spoken OF as likely TO inherit q large
fortune from her titled father, and
because Of that some one thought IL
| admirable TO kidnap her.
Tne method employed by the kid
uappers was sensational II is report.
ed that the young woman vas taken
fl the boat on Whicl she was o pas
sengsr when only q mile or SO from
Yokohama, and taken aboard q yacht.
SIX weeks later the yacht la said to
nave been located in New York har-
DOR somewhere, but the young woman
passenger was missing. The London
and Yokohams police corresponded
With their cable syBtem, and later the
New York police were told by cable to
set alb ut fading the girl.
The investigation pursued by the
oentral offlce detectives resulted In
bheir locAtihR the victim In q SANTA
tium In Nav York Oi6y. 1t was stated
Wednesday that whom the yacht came
inbo port With the your 6 woman on
ooard the authorities fou ad the young
woman virtually prisoner In o cabin
9hore she was kept for elk weeks, the
Lime wnioh Is said TO have elapsed
rom she day she WAS kidnapped and
lhe day the yacht was reported at
quarantine.
Tne quarantine authorities disooy.
ered very quickly that tile young wo-
man was mentally unbalano3d, and ID
was reported she had become q rayIna
maniac.
Central Office detectives visited JET.
terHon Market poles court on several
successive days last week. anticipat.
ing o visit TO court Of n mau who was
reported TO be patron at the Wal.
lorf Astoria hotel. For some reason
jhe man, who was eXpeooed to make
formal affi lavit Of complaint upon
which warrant was to ba asked for,
did not 60 to court.
The central Office deteotive went
TO Westcnester county and cal,sd,
smong other places, 1t is said, 90 q
prominent country club there seek
Ing some one upon WHOM they inten.
ned to sorVo the warrant. Al the
"aldor? Astoria hotel nothing ojuld
oe learned regarding the IDENTITY Of
ne mysterious patron, said by the
oollce TO have bean stopplng there.
We know abso.ubely nothing OF the
'ase," said the management, The
polioe had been at work on the case
tor two weeks prior 10 going into
oourt 30 ask for warrants. Former
fjii5e Commissioned mJAiuu is said
ao have been acquainted With the
'aae through. Acting Iaspeotor
O'Brlsn, who was In charge OF the
leteotive bufeau when the London
polioo first notified the Nsw York
authorities. Detectives who had The
me police court end OF the case In
'harge refused from the outsab to
peak concerning tito case. In fact,
both denied that thsy were seeking
garrants or expecting tho man from
one Waldorf.
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