The morning Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Oregon) 1899-1930, 1908-03-11
A SHAMEFUL RECORD
Warrants Out for Henry Blunk
on Grave Charges.
A SAD STORY OF DEpRAvITy
The Law Invoked to Its Limit OF
Punishment for Dual Crime Against
Respectable Family-Arrested at
Portland Yesterday.

keSpeCtapic raAniAy
Portland Yesterday.
G. L. Millard, Clatsop county
farmer, dwelling "A miles south OF
the city OF Seaside, yesterday alter
noon. swore to two separate conf
plants against one Henry Bunk, a
young timber-faller, working up the
Deep River country; one, charging
him with seduction; the other accus-
ing him of the crime of taking away
female under the age of 10 years,
without the consent of her parents.
These impeachments were pleaded,
and sworn to, before Justice +. J..
Goodman, of this city, Assistant Dis
trict Attorney John c. McCue prepar-
ing the documents in the case, and
the warrants were Immediately placed
in the hands of Sheriff NJ. R. Pome-
roy, who left on the evening express
for Portland, where the alleged GRIM
inal is being held by the authorities
at the instance of the outraged father,
who succeeded in having the despoil-
er of his home and children captured
on Monday night.
According to the simple and
straightforward story of the unhappy
father, this man Bunk began to pay
attention to his second daughter,
Miss Ethel Millard, something over a
year ago, and as those attentions were
of surreptitious character and not
to the fathers and mothers liking,
the girl who was but l8, was fire.
quently and seriously apprised OF the
danger she was running in accepting
such overtures; but, as has happened
since the days of old, the wise and
loving counsel was ignored, and the
companionship drifted and deepened,
until the sum OF evil wherewith such
intimacies are charged, developed in
the ruin of the girl and an enforced
agreement to save the unhappy situa-
ton by marriage that was to have
transpired yesterday; and which was
obviated by the further, and fouler,
crime, on the part of the same young
man, in enticing from home and
damning to deeper shame, the baby
daughter of this farmers humble
home, the 14-year-old sister of his
earlier victim, Clara, the youngest of
Mr.. and Mrs. Millard's three girls.
1t seems that Immediately after
the sad contretemps in the earlier
case, some three weeks ago, and after
he had sworn by all that love and
duty could prompt man to do, in
the remedying of a dreadful situa-
ton for which he was, primarily, re-
sponsible, this man Bunk went de-
liberately and sneakingly to work, to
engage the innocent regard of the
younger sister, who was not aware of
the grave crisis overhanging her
sister; in this he succeeded so we'll
that the foolish child gave him her
simple faith and permitted him to en-
trap her into a runaway marriage ~,
the same to be consummated up the
Willamette Valley somewhere; and
on Monday afternoon last, this child
was beguiled from her school-books
and school, in her simple home -garb,
and persuaded to board the afternoon
train out 70 Seaside and join her lover
at Clatsop; for he had laid his plans
well and footed it to the little way
station this side of the terminus, and
climbed aboard the train he, himself.
tagged. On boarding the train, he
sauntered through the coaches and
when he saw his victim, dropped into
the seat with her, with all manner of
surprised calculations at her presence,
with the evident intention of bluff
ing anyone who might have noted
the meeting. But he overdid it. The
conductor and another of the train
crew noted the little game, and when
it was found that the couple were
going to Portland on the train out of
this city, the word was passed among
the boys" and Conductor Lowe, of
the evening train, got next and near
est to the whole thing without the
need of the anxious telegram that
overlook him en- route from the dis
tracted father, who had discovered
the combination when the schoolgirl
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