The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-06-11
Kidnapped
By EUNICE BLAKE

mer. She was both motor and sail
boat and was named the Frederick
from his wife.
The occasion of the trouble was that
his daughter. Fannie, comely girl of
eighteen, had the night before been
kidnapped She had gone to visit her
aunt a mile down the beach. 1t was
early spring and the weather was mild.
A half moon gave some light. Just
before sunset a steamer about fifty
feet from stem to stern dropped anchor
in the bay not far from the house
where Fannie Carr was visiting. and
about 8 o'clock a boat was seen NOV
ing from the ship toward the shore
A party landed. went to the house,
took the girl to the boat and pulled
her to the schooner
The captain suspected that his
daughter had been carried away by
one whom he had forbidden her to
marry. This man was Jack Austin, a
sailor, without means, but with moth
ing else against him. Carr didn't seem
TO know whether his daughter wished
to marry Austin or not. Sometimes he
thought she did and sometimes he
thought she didn't.
got wind of the matter early in the
morning, and, seeing Captain Carr GO
ing to his boat with wheelbarrow
load of provisions and carboy of wa
ter, | went down to the dock and
without asking him where he was go
ing-for / knew that he was bent on
bringing back his daughter-I asked
him If he didn't wish me to go with
him. He said he did, and before we
started Ned Beam came down, and
the captain took him along too. We
knew there were three on the other
was an even match.
The captain had been told that the
boat we were after-no one had seen
her name-had turned her nose north
ward after leaving the bay. So he
steered in that direction. Every now
and again when we met a boat Carr
would describe to those on her the one
we were after and ask If they had
seen her Some had seen her and
some hadn't, but we got enough in
formation about her to satisfy us that
we were on her track. We followed
her all day, and when the captain
found we couldn't possibly reach her
before dark he was discouraged. for
he felt sure the fugitives were max
ing for Casco bay, where there are is
lands enough to conceal a whole feet
After passing Portland we got in
among these islands and lost all track
of what we were following. but after
meandering among them for four days
we were sailing past Seguin light
when the captain spied something near
the main island moving westward that
answered the description OF the craft
we wanted. We followed her down
past Orrs island and saw her go
through the narrow gut between Orrs
and Baileys islands.
That's the last we saw of her for
several days, when one evening, round
ing a point of Cliff island, we saw her
anchored In cove no great distance
from us. We made for her, expecting
to see some one preparing to receive
us, but as we neared her not human
being could we see aboard of her. We
anchored near her. and the captain and
Ned Beam got into the tender and
went aboard her.
After awhile the captain pulled back
and said that they had found her de-
serted. Her name had been painted
off the stern. but they could see the
white letters underneath - Rowena
She must have been laid up for some
time, for her fires were out and the
furnace only warm. His idea was
that something had gone wrong with
them, and they had been obliged to
lay up. Probably they had seen us
and had left their craft and gone up
into the island, though they could
have got away from there since the
little steamers were stopping at the
dock on the other side a number of
times a day.
Captain Carr told me that he had
left Beam on the Rowsna. and / was
to stay on the Frederick while he
went up on to the island to find out
If any one had seen anything of the
party we were after. He did so and
returned disappointed, for be had
found no one who had seen any such
party.
Leaving Ned on the Rowena, the
captain and I turned in at O'Clock
and turned out again about 9 O'clock
The captain went on deck and called
to Ned. who did not appear. Getting
no reply, he went aboard the Rowena,
to find her not only deserted by her
crew, but by Ned as we'll The cap
tain was mystifed and so was I. Not
knowing what to do. we did nothing
About 10 O'Clock we saw several men
coming toward us. headed by Fannie
Carr herself. She asked her father to
come ashore to her and told him that
Austin had kidnapped her, but that
during the trip she had forgiven him.
The boiler of the Rowena' having Civ |
en- out. they had been obliged TO give |
up their fight. When the captain |
and Beam had gone aboard of their |
boat the men of the party. except |
Jack. had gone ashore. and she and |
Jack had hidden In the furnace.
After a long powwow. the captain |
gave in. consented to the match. and |
we all went back on the Frederick,
10 ~ing the Rowens.