St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1910-08-13
CHARGED WITH ABDUCTION.
Mrs. Jessie Jenkins Charges A. M.
Harrison, Drummer, With ABB
Quoting her Daughter, Louise,
Fifteen Years OF Age.

There was quite sensatioa when
Mrs. Jesse Jenkins, who lives on
Bogue Chitto, about ten miles north
of Covington, preferred charges of
abduction against A. M. Harrison, a
New Orleans drummer. She claims
that Harrison visited her house and
on Sunday took her daughter, fifteen
years of age, away, and that
he did not return with her. Mrs.
Jenkins came to Covington and made
an affidavit against Harrison before
Judge Robert Badon.
AS far as we can learn Harrison
has hitherto had a good reputation,
but the charges in this case are very
serious and damaging. His where
abouts at present is not known, and
Mr.. jenkins is very anxious to get
hold of him. He is said to have
boarded the train somewhere near
Folsom and is probably in New Or
leans.
Mrs. Jenkins says that Harrison
frequently stopped at the house dur
ing his business trips in that part of
the country and in that way became
acquainted with the family and the
girl, and that she had no suspicion
OF any evil intent on his part. He
is a married man and both he and
Mrs. Harrison are known in Coying-
ton.
Harrison had entered into an
agreement to go into general mer-
chandise business with Mr.. Jenkins,
and on the day of his disappearance
with the girl had made out bill of
the goods they were to put in. A
building had been erected for the
purpose.
A New Orleans paper gives the
following further information:
The presence in New Orleans of
young girl who is said to answer de-
scriptions of Louise Jenkins, the fif-
teen-year-old Covington maid who is
declared to have been abducted from
home, was announced Wednesday
night by J. A. Evans, proprietor of
Mississippi House, 1918 Canal street.
A. M. Harrison, the New Orleans
drummer, who is charged with abb
du' ting the girl, is also said to have
been here, and to have met the girl
on Canal Street.
The case of Louise Jenkins is at
tracing attention throughout this
section of the State. The girl dis
appeared last week and was last seen
with Harrison, who, although a mar
ried man, was paying rapt attention
to the girl on his visits to St. Tam
many.
The young woman who is now
taken to be Miss Jenkins, reached
New Orleans on last Monday via the
New Orleans Great Northern. She
was alone and carried no baggage.
The girl was taken in charge by a
Travellers Aid Society agent, and
was conducted by this officer to the
Mississippi House, where she was
given a room. The girl declared
that she had come here to meet her
husband and if she liked the city
here.
Tuesday night, shortly after nine
O'Clock a young man who said that
he was the girls brother-in-law ap-
peared at the Mississippi House and
asked to see the boarder, the girl
having registered under the name of
Adeline Reid. The man was refused
the request, and went away. On
Wednesday after breakfast the girl
left her room and walking in Canal
street she was seen to meet the man.
The two disappeared.
Mr.. Evans thinks that the girl is
none other except Louise Jenkins,
and that the man who represented
himself as her brother-in-law is Har-
rison.
The M. C. Bs' have been very ac-
tive of late. Their freshly painted
library building presents very at
tractive appearance with Its pearl
gray walls outlined against one of
the prettiest landscapes in Coving-
ton.
1t may interest our readers to
know that a large supply of stand
ard books have been lately added to
the already popular stock Of literary
works in the libary.
The following is list of some Of
the books recently added: A Modern
hronicle-Churchill The Spinner
and the Sun-Myrtle Reed; Little
Sister Snow-Frances Little; White
The Ramrodders;
Kilmeny of the Orchard; Lady
Merton Colonist; Going Some-Rex
Beach; The Twisted Foot; Hearts