The Marlboro democrat. [volume] (Bennettsville, S.C.) 1882-1908, 1906-02-16
A Rich Young Lady kidnapped
and Held by Force.
A LORD'S DAUGHTER.
When the Mystery Of the Case 10 Clear.
ed Away a Story Of Real Ron,anso
in High Life VIII be Re.
veaied Says the DeteG.
tives.

vealed Says the Deteg.
lives.
With @ detective seeking q wealthy
member Of q we'll. kaown country club
In N W York, guarding all names
with tho greatest care, through police
SOU. cas- was revealed o tale OF romance
and adventure which would have
commended itself to Wilkie Collins.
The natural daughter of an English
lord, kidnapped 10 q private yaeht on
the coaab Of Japan, 10 In o a%spitsriuint
In 6hfB country q ravin2 maniac from
nor experience. Tue club member ia
accused Of the kidnapping. Back OF
10 Ia h tale Of Q contested estate an
volving the lord, o French countess.
an old Eea captain and the man want.
Cd. No names were given by the no.
leo, but will be later on.
Not q une was revealed at polioe
heacQ lsrtorB except to admit that
Detective Sergeant Wakefsli was out
ON . moab extraordinary Gaze. Nor
u NAME" was Inspector McLaughlin's
announcement, until the man ia
found. Ii will then all ooms OUT.
Wakefield was not 40 hcadq aarters.
He appeared on the Jefferson market
police ouurt Saturday. With him vera
several strangers The deseotiya SER,
aean6 privately obtained q warrant
utter reoittng facts OF some length 10
che mag iBtrate. He departed immed.
lately, saying then that when he
o2ught hiS man there would be full
explanation.
The story az 1t triokeld uut Wednes
nay, stripped Of names, is that an
Eagiish nooleman while travelling In
Tiance, In 1875. met o woman who
HiDsr"afd bscame the mother of q
ohild. This child, q girl, was taken to
Eiglapd by the nooleman, who, az
Ger keeping her apart from bis family
Tor some ltbtle time, consented TO her
adoption by o o captain. This cap.
cain was In charge OF o merohantman
plying between London and Yokoha-
ma. A countess, a member OF the
family, Is IN aoma way concerned In
lsaa eAHas ths police Rin
Tho daughter, brought up at Yoke.
hama. taking an occasional sea trip
with her adopted father, ia said to
have come often In contact with her
real father, who lived on an English
estate. More recently this child was
spoken OF as likely TO inherit O large
fortune from her TITLED father, and
because of that some one thought It
admirable TO kidDap her.
The method employed by the kid.
nappers was sensational. It is report.
cd that the young woman was taken
III the boat on whoa she was o pas.
seDger when only a mile or so from
Yokohama, and taken aboard o Yacht.
Six weeks later the yacht Is said to
nave been located in New York har-
DOR somewhere, but the young woman
passenger was missing. The London
4nd Yokohama police corresponded
With their cable system, and later the
New York police were told by cable to
set alb ut fading the girl.
The investigation pursued by tho
central Ciice detectives resulted in
hhelr loo4tihR the Victim In o sanita-
tium In New York Oily. 1t was stated
wednesday that whom the yacht came
.nSo port with the your & on
BOARD h authorities found the young
"oman virtually o prlsOner In q cabin
9here she was kept for elk weeks, che
cine which is said to have elapsed
rom 6he day she was kidnapped and
lho day the yacht was reported at
quarantine.
Tne quarantine authorities disoov.
cred very quickly that the young wo-
man was mentally unbalanced, and IL
Was reported she had become q raying
maniac.
Central of1ce detectives visited JET.
ferson Market police court on several
successive days last week, anticipat.
ing o visit TO court OF q mau who was
reported to be a patron at the Wal.
1orf' Astoria hotel. For some M
the man, who was expecbed to make
> formal afi lavit Of complaint upon
which q warrant aas to bs asked for,
did not go to court.
The central office detectives went,
10 Westcnester county and called,
Among other places, IL la said, at a
prominent country club there, seek
Ing some one upon whom they inten.
ned to serVo the warrant. At tho
Waldorf Astoria hotel nothing could
90 learned regarding the Identify OF
me mysterious patron, said by the
police TO have bean stopping there.
We know absolutely nothing OF the
Hase," said the management. The
police had been at work on the case
ior two weeks prior 10 going into
court 10 ask for warrants. Former
Police Commissioner M1Adoo is said
a0 w bson acquainted with tine
'aae through. Acting Iaspeotor
O'Brien, who was In charge OF the
~ieteotive bureau when she London
poiioe first notified the Nav York
authorities. Detectives who had the
zoe police court end OF the case In
iharRe refused from the outseb 10
peak concerning tho case. In fact,
ooth denied that bhey were seeking
~Varrants or expecting the man from
she Waldorf.
Fatal Dispute
Samuel Smith aud Robert Robert
ION, BApbi8t deao1Ds, got into n fa0hb,