Ellsworth American. [volume] (Ellsworth, Me.) 1855-current, 1914-05-06
Kidnapped
By EUNlCE BLAKE


1 sloop in which he fished in winter
/ and took out pleasure parties in sum
mer. She was both motor and sail
/ boat and was named the Frederick
/ from his wife.
! The occasion of the trouble was that
I his daughter. Fannie. comedy girl of
/ eighteen. had the night before been
/ kidnapped She had gone to visit her
( aunt a mile down the beach. 1t was
4 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 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,
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 q wheelbarrow
load of provisions and a carboy of wa
4 70 sha nd
without asking him where he was GO
ing-for l 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 We're 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 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
f1g 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
1 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
1 little steamers were stopping at the
I dock on the other side number of
times a day.
| Captain Carr told me that he had
! left Beam on the Rowena. and | was
| to stay on the Frederick while he
1
| If any one had seen anything of the
party we were after. He did so and
returned disappointed for he had
found no one who had seen any such
| party.
! Leaving Ned on the Rowena. the
captain and turned in at o'clock
and turned out again about 6 O'clock
The captain went on deckSand 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 well. The cap
tain was mystified and so was |. Not
knowing what to do. we did nothing
About 10 o'clock we saw several men
J coming toward us. headed by Fannie
Carr herself. She asked her father to
come ashore to her and told him that