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attorney AT L.A.W,
BUENA VISTA. OA..
IVMORS & SIMMONS,
attorney at law,
AMKIUCUB, GEORGIA.
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m and
RED RONE, GA.
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attorney AT I'aw.
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an.t the District nud Circuit Courts of tlie
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BUENA VISTA, GA.
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attorney at LAW,
A M KUICUSi QKOBGI A.
Office on Umar Street.
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of Lee, Macon, Marion, tSchlcy, Sumter, Web
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the oitixens of Buena Vista and vicinity.
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’DTJo3r7aud KUirounding counties. He
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people of Marion. Satisfaction guaranteed, and
ut reasonable prices.
Special inducements offered tt> those yh o vri 11
arrange ‘to visit my office to have their opera
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TAILOR,
KUKNA VIST A. G a
No Hid respectfully announce to the publU
and Itie drieude that he i* etill at hie post I ,*
ready furxUkinds ef tailoring—Cutting, Muk
i-.g Repaying, Cleaning, ete. Tlioae want
mg mousci'Oß to send for suite can get them
cf him. MT Latest styles and fashions al
vsys Ml hand. J.IS. L. BKASINGTON
B. B. Hinton, Attorney and Councel'or at
Dst7, Americus, G*., is now prepared to pro
aiii'.i pensions for the widows ot soldiers of
£<. war of 1812, as well as pensions lor sol-
B. B. HINTON.
DISCOVERIES IN THE MOON,
There was an old woman
Who lived in the moon;
She made rice pudding,
Aud cut it too soon.
When she found 'twasn’t done,
She gave it a throw;
It came to our planet
And we called it ••snow.”
When her little boy saw
What his motbei hud dmio.
He scowled and made faces
That clouded the sun.
He'd lost liis dear pudding,
And to wish was in vain ;
Hi, tears fell in torrents,
But we called them "raiu .”
The man in the Moon, who
Had been off to town,
Heard his ltttle boy cryinp,
Which caused him to lrowned.
Ho gave him a nice sweetmeats,
And told him to dine ;
Cj then there was smiling !
Wj called it ‘moonshine,”
[Wide Awake for May.
CAPTURING /TWO YANKEE*.
Result of a Scouting Expedition
It was only a year ago that I met
Abe McClellan. Poor Abe! I hard*
iv knew him, so sadly had Iteclianged.
His hair was gray, his eyes bleared
and bloodshot aud I is lace bloated
and discolored. He was sitting iu
a barroom at Johnson City, Term.,
very much under the influence of liq
uor, but whn he recognized me his
manner changed, aud he seemed to
(eel r ght keenly the degration of his
appearance and condition.
vYe drew oar chairs together in
one corner of the room and began to
fight over again the battles we had
Plight together a decade aud a hull
ago. Whilst we were talking a pom
pous,’consequential man entered the
room and walking to ihe bar called
lor drinks, inviting the company pres
cn: 10 join him. 1 refused and Abe,
although his face lighted up at the
prospect of more liquor, aid 1 could
s e the refusal cost him considerable
efl'er-, imitated me. When tile pom
pous party at last, left the room 1 ask
ed Abe who lie was.
“lie was with Stover in the early
part of the war—Capt. Young; and
I captur'd him at Murfreesboro.
He is now an in.-unitice agent. By
the way, I don't think you ever In uni
that stoiy, Colonel. I captured him
and his companion, Lieut. Blevins.
Would yui Jike to hear lk i 1 ’’
“Assuredly,” I rcp.iod, and with n
longing look towards the and earners
and bottles b hind the bar, Abe till
ed back his chair, and began as fol
lows;
••It was just liefore the battle ol
Ccrtinlli that I happen and to s art
out on it scouting expedition, and iu
three days from the time l icti mu
camp found myself condor ably quar
tered at Murfreesboro, winch place
was then iu possession of the Feder
al*. I had been there an hour m
two —long enough to take u walk
through the town aud pick up some
valnab e information—when 1 stum
bled across my brother Nod, who had
been attached lo Zol.icoffer’s com
mand. but was now with John Mor
<rn. He was on a scont, also, and
we linked fortunes. My business
was completed the next day, and I
hunted up Ned to know if lie would
accompany me out of the city that
night.
“Certainly,” he replied, “but we
must first do Something to make the
Yankees remember us.”
‘•What shall it be?’’
‘•Listen and I’ll tell you,” said he.
“I learned, this morning, that two
Yankee officers, Cpt. Young and
Lieut. Blevins, are stopping at the
house of a noted Union sympathizer
just outside of the lilies. If we go
about it right we can capture them.”
Young was known to me as, tbe
leader ol a party of bushwhackers,
who had been the death of many of
,my friends and companions. Blevins
was his lieutenant. I was willing to
take great risk to effect their capture.
They were stopping with one McAn
drews, who was the father of two
beautiful and very interesting daugh
ters, the admiration of all the eligible
young officers of both armies. Care
fully making our arrangements be
fore hand, we passed through Mur
freesboro, and under cover of night
passed through the lines and gained
the house of Me Andrews. There
Were two doors to the mansion, and
leaving Ned to guard one door, I
went around to the other and knoclc
'ed loudly tor admittance. McAndrcws
came to tbe door. Presenting my
pistol I said:
“I wish you to deliver up, at once,
Capt. Young and his friend, Lieut.
Blevins, both officers of the Fede: al
army."
Seeing that I wits alone, the old
man proceeded to slam the door in
my face, but Was prevented by Ned,
Who had entered the rear door un
preceivcd, and seized his arms.
‘‘Hang on to him,” I cried, “and
I'll search the building from roof to
ccllan”
MBNA VISTA, MARION COUNTY, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1878 .
I Went through the bui ding thor
oughly, with the exception of one
room, the chamber ol tiie grown-up
duuglit. rs of McAndrcws.
“You will respect that chamber,”
said the old man, ••will you not? My
daughters are both undressed unci iu
b d.”
Just then I heard a scuffle down
stairs and walked out upon the land
ing to sec Lieut. Blevins struggling
to escape from Ned, who had puled
him out of a cock standing in one
corner of the room, a ponderous eight
day affair, in Ihe compacions interior
of which a man could easily slow
himself a way. One gl nee satisfied
me that Ned had his man under con
troll, and I turned aga n to the old
man.
“1 do not want to molest, or harm
your daughters,” said I, ‘ but I must
search that room.”
Accordingly the old n an stepped
into the apartment and told his
daughters to lay st ill and cover them
s Ives up, as I was about to enter
the room. The g rls did as desired,
and when 1 went in not oven their
faces could be seen. With ut dis
turbing them, I examinined every
closet aud cupboard, carefully search
ed in every nook where it was possi
ble a man could be hidden, but could
discover no one. In dispair I ad
vanced lo the bed, and lifting tho
curiums, looked under if, in despite
of old Me Andrews’ protest.
‘ Come, Captain,” said 1, “get out,
of ibis. ’
The girls now began to cry bitter
ly at their awkward position, and as
Voung would not get. out, qui tly, lie
was most unceremoniously Compelled
to, and walk down stairs with hro.
On mounting our horses we compell
ed our prisoners lo seat themselves
in front of us, and when wo were
ready to leave, I turned t old Mc-
Andrcws and said:
“I would advi.-o you in futme to
be a little more discrete and nor con
ceal Yankee officers in your daugh
ters’ r.oin—such conduct may result
; n something dangerous lo your lion
or.”
“We rode all that night in the di
rection ot Sneed vilie, and the next
morning readied a Confedraie camp,
and turned our prisoners over.”
Abe having fiunislnd his sto.y, I
rose and walked towards the bar.
He followed with alacrity, and in re
sponse to the 1) riem rs inquiry as to
wi,at lie should he served with,
hoarsely ejaculated ‘’whiskey."
Size of lieu >ts.
It is a dispn ed question as to
whether there is a relation b tween
the size of the head aud the deveiope
ment of the intellect. But. the t. I
lowitig facts stated by a French med
ical journal. would scim to indicate
Unit the relation exists:
Cuvier, Byron and the First Nc
poleau required larger fiats than tho
average man, and their head cover
ing, gays a contemporary, would
probably come down on the nose of
an inmate oftlic Earlswood Assy lunr.
Bismarck and Molteke measures
more round the crown than the Em
peror William. Inferior races have
heads smaller than the Europeans,
the heads ot negroes, lied Indians
and Cocbin-Chinese being paiticu
larly small, although, by way of com
pnnsaFon, they are particlarly hard.
Women have small heads, but a deni
of mischief is sometimes packed in
them. Mon in the South has small
er heads than these in tlie North,
mountaineers than denizens of the
plains, artizans than artists. Tho
heads of peasants grow, says tho
writer of this article, when their
owners come to reside in towns, i
l ire head increases in volume with
the ordinary mortal until the age of
lofiy five.
All Astonished Dutchman.
A Dutchman in Pennsylvania oil re
gions let liis hands to an oil company
last Spring on condition of receiving
one-ciglit of the oil procured. The well
proved to be a pretty good one, and
the former thought that the oil men
should give him a better choice, and
ventured to tell them so. He said they
ought to give him one twelf h. Ihe ar
rangement was finallv made, with the
understanding that the Dutchman was
not to tell any one. All went on
Rtnoo'bly until the division day came,
when our fiieml was early al hand, to
see how much belter he would be off
under the new bargain. Eleven barrels
were rolled to one side for the oil men
and one for him. “How’s dish?’said
be, “I think 1 was to get, more as before,
you have made somo mistakes." The
matter was explained to him that he for
merly got one barrel out of eight, but it
was his proposition to take one out ef
every twelve. This revelation took him
abash. lie scratched his head, looked
cross and relieved his swelling biaast of
self-reproach by indignantly remaricing,
“Well dat ish tho first lime as lever
knowed eight wasmor’u dweive.
A- DEMOCRATIC FAMILY NEWSPAPER.
TOixkisitippl.
A panther nine feet long wns killed
near Oakland.
Summit Times : Tho ju! in Liberty
was visited on Saturday night ol lasi
week by a body of twenty or tweniy-tiVc
outlaws, who made a determined effort
to release the bulldoMrs confined in it,
and would probably have succeeded, but
for tbe alarm being given by a shot fired
at a citizen, who was accidentally pass
ing across the street. There were no
guards at the jail, we learn to resist the
attack ; but the alarm be ; ng given, the
bloodhounds fled into the surrounding
dat kntss.
Meridian Mercury save: An old negro
woman died in this city, a day or so
since, something like a hundred years
old. She dieo of no disease whatever
but merely expired of old age. What is
remarkable about this old woman is,
that site never prayed in her life, as she
asserted a few (Jays before her death.
The Columbus Democrat says: That
along the road from Walthall to Winona
the caterpillars have laitly denued the
foiesl ot foliage. It is feared that fruit
trees v ill he seriously damaged. Num
bers of trees in the forest will die, which
besides the loss of timber, it tnav cause
sieknes*. The caterpillar curse is all
over the State, but seems to he worse in
the central counties than elsewhere.
Wlial lie Have Smoked.
If one could calculate beforehand
all the cost of yielping to temptation
every time that ail evil indulgence
might present itself, and would s .ve |
and lay up that cost in money, it
would be a better investment than
a lile-iusurance. Att exchange men
tions the successful result of au ex
periment in that line by Mr. Hub
bard, a Connecticut gentlemun.
He was about eiglremt years old
when lie determined to lay aside day
by day the money lie would have '
siient lor cigars had lie been a smok-i
cr. At the end of each month lie
deposited at uitere-t the turn thus
obtained in a saving bunk.
As the price of good cigars advanc
ed, he conespoiiingly increased the
amount of money to be laid away each
day. From time to time, when Ins
sating* in the bunk reached a few
hundred dollars, he would draw them
out to make a better investment.
By wise and shrewd management,
the fund amounted to from $15,000
lo SIB,OOO a lew' years since. Mr.
Hubbard then took this money, andi
with it. purchased a ( harming site on
Grenwich Hill, mid built a comforta
ble and commodious heme for hint
self and family. The place over
looks Long Island Sound, ami com
mauds ( ne of the widest ami finest
views that, can be found on the Cott
mct.icut shore.
Not His Skirt
Mis. Jones was one evening busy
embroidering some muslin} Mr. Jones
sat looking at the rich display she was
making, and at last said; ‘Why don’t
you fix up my underclothing fancy,
too V
‘Oh,’ replied Mrs. Jones, ‘men don’t
care about such things.’
‘Of course they do,’ answered her
husband, but the women are too care
less and lazy to take the trouble to put
on tbe fancy work.’
Nothing more was said, but Mrs.
Jones looked as though something had
come into her mind that woiicetfully
pleased Iter.
A few night afterwards, as they were
retiring, Mr. Jones appeared to be anx
ious'y bunting something he couldn’t
find, and at last, very petulantly asked
‘where is my nightdress?’
‘(Jn ler your pillow, my dear,’gently
replied his wife. ‘No it isn’t,’ said Jones,
‘you have made a mistake and put some
of your flummery here.’
‘Ob no, that is not mine,’ said Mrs.
Jones, as she took up tho garment she
held it up before heiGiusband, ‘it is your
night-shirt, fixed up as you said you
would iiko ii.’ And further examination
showed the astonished Jones, that his
shirt was ornamented with a frill around
ihe bottom, and a ruffle around the top
while a pretty piece of embroidery ran
down tbe front. To make the joke
more decided, his wife had put all his
other shirts tit wash, so that for once
he was compelled to sleep iu this fancy
garment, and as he expressed it when lie
got up in the morning, he was not, sure
whether he was himself or some woman.
At his request his wife took off tiro fan
cy fixings, as Jones called them, and lie
never afterwards complained that she
was careless about Liis underclothing,
Au Anecdote lor Stychninc.
According to some recent experi
ments of I)r. Lclli, detailed in the
London Lancet, strong coffee may be
successfully used to counteract poi
soning by strychnine. The expc.i
ments were made upon rabbits, and
were tried m consequence of a report
ed instance of failure in an attempt
to poison a family where strychnine
had been introduced into tho coff.e
pot.
Tlie Great Dari* Ilallooii.
It will be the laigcnt in the world.
One litindted and sixty sewing gil ls are
engaged In putting the pieces of Which
it is made togethci. Tho car will hold
fifty passengets and liar, a restaurant and
bar attached. A wire rope, some 800
feet in length, will he s- cured in the
bettom of thi* car and operated by a
windla, sti that t’-.e balloon with its
living cargo will always he under coi -
tro I —provided the rope does not break.
It will taki about four minutes, under
favorable eircoms’anees, for the balloon
to ascend until the end of the rope L
reached; and about eight lo wind ii
down again, the wit.d ass le he operated
by a small steam engine. A ride in the
balloon will cost two francs, and admit
tance to the enclosure whctrfrjm the
ascents take places, otic franc. The
c! anciS of an accident by the rope giv
ing away, are freely discussed and would
form, doubtless, an acceptable side-show
to the satiated Parisians.
IVlm'ii Good Times will Come.
When business will revive no man
can tell. Pltophesics wiil not hasten
its revival, despondency only retards
it. Strength Comes slowly to a man
who has been wasted ami enfeebled
dv long illness. The country must
thus convalesce after the exhaustion
which war, wild speculation and reck
less extravagance have produced.
The cure is tube effected by industry,
economy and hopefulness. It will
thus be effected. We must dismiss
our expectations of large interest,
wake from our dn am of sudden
riches, live within onr morns, and
pay as we go. We greatly mistake,
if we are not, slowly perhaps, but
surely, learning wisdom by tne tilings
we have suffered.
Silk Culture i:i Alabama.
An attempt to introduce tLe
culture of silk as a source of indus
try among the colored people of
Alabama, is now in progress it) j
that State. Two years ago an ex
periment on tit is basis was coin
menced at //unfsville Ala. Scv-j
era! cocoons, which were donated
by a Englishman who ha I brought
them across the Atlantic, were
placed in a c. tiple of acres of white
mulberry trees. From these co
coons nearly 100,000 worms were
hatched. An academy has been
formed for tbe purpose of training
tbe cdored folk in reeling, spin
ning and weaving, and fifty pupils
are now engage in the industry,
while the silk produced is pro
nounced to be of an excellent qual-
Rcgiii to s itve.
Wc commend this excellent, advice
given to young men by the Cougre
gationalis:
Young men ought to begin laying
up money or pmperty in some form,
earlier than many of them now do.
Their income may indeed bo small,
but so may bo their expenses, and in
more titan a corresponding ratio; and
tor their income, they can not be
sure that it will soon or ever be any
larger. There are a good n any men
in mature or advanced life w io are
poor to-day because they wait for
large pay or profits before they be
gin to save or lay up anything.
Tlie Scij;e of Vickburg.
Joseph S. Irwin has presented the
Louisiana (Mo.) Press h r inspection
a relic of the seige of Yieksbtng It
is a copy ot the Citizen of June 30.
18G3, cootainingfonr columns printed
on one side of a p'ece of wall paper.
The local column contains Severn 1 in
teresting items of tlie siege then be
ing conducted by Gen Grant’s army
against the city; among them tho
death of Gen. Martin Green, of Mis
souri; the bursting of a shell in tlie
Catholic church during services and
the miraculous escape of the congre
gation; the wounding of several la
dies; an account of tho killing and
eating of a mule bv the starving gar
rison; tne sad killing of the brave
and lamented Col. Eugene Irwin, of
the Sixth Regiment Missouri Volun
teers, on June 25, while on tho works
preparing to lead a desperate charge.
Forty years ago from tho Bth
inst.,the first steamship which ever
crossed the Atlantic Ocean, left
New York, There are scientist
now living who scoffed and ridi
culed the idea of navigating the
ocean by steamships. Some men
agreed to eat the first one which
succeed in crossing. Had ho done
so, and continued to eat them un
til now. lie would have been cer
tainly a prodigy of digesty.
3,000,000 visitors in Paris are en
joying the wonders of the Exposition.
HEW GOODS
AT GOLD AND SILVER TRICES.
THE UNDEItSIQNED lIA VE JUST OTEE3ED THEIR STOCK OK
Spring and Summer
c^ooidi^:
And, low as Co/ton in, 1)111 GOODS, many of them, are lower than ttoU'd
ever teas. We bought some of them cheaper than ever, and will sell them at
VOLE) and SILVER PRICES FOR CASIf
\VE KEEP UP OUR USUAL STOCK OF
i STAPLE DRYGOODS, POCKET and TABLE CU I'LiERY,
rAOTHINO. U.MDRELI.AS,
CARPETS NOTIONS,
HATS, TOBACCOS.
SHOES, AO., AC.
Some Extra Fine Pocket Knives and “Razor Steel” Scissors.
1 A OUR
We offer some ENTIRELY NEW FABRICS, BEAUTIFUL IS DESIGN, and ver#
STYLISH as well ns very CHEAP.
OCR ASSORTMENT of CLOTHING
Was NEVER BETTER—NEVER SO CHEAP" It consists of Common and Fine Coats
Pants and Vest, Linen Shirts and Collars, Gauze, and Check Muslin Undershirts.
OUR “BOW-TON” CORSETS
Have proven to be VERY SUPERIOR, FITTING PERFECTLY and GIVING SATIS
FACTION to all who have tried them.
"I N 1 E offer no INDUCEMENTS to purchasers by selling a FEW LEADING ARTI-
V t CLES at LESS TEAS i’OST, but we do, find will satisfy r.ll whp take iipo consid
oration the AVERAGE PROFITS we charge, that we sell goods as £ OIK as A Kl'
house is Southwestern Georgia.
f; lIAABFJSIII & BARLOW,
Americus. G-oergia.
Longevlly of Trees.
From observations made on speci
mens still in existence, the longevity
of various trees has been estimated
to be as follows: Deciduous cypress
0,000 years, boabab trees, 5,000; dra
gon tree, 5.000; yew, 3,000; “great
trees” ot California, 1,000; chestnut,
3,000; olive, 2,500; oak
1,000; orange, 1,500; Oriental palm,
1,200; cabbage palm, 700; lime, 000;
ash, 400; cocoanut palm, 300; pear,
300; apple, 200; Brazil wine palm,
150; Scotch fir, 100; and the balm of
tiilead about 50 years. Such exam
ples are perhaps sufficient to justify a
remark of Sclilciden’s “tlieie seems
to lie a possibility of a compound
plant living on without end.”—True
Citizen.
A Paris correspondent: Tlie only
novelty in dress introduced at the last,
qu- en’s drawing-room which is likely
to lie widely taken up—lor I do not
count one noblewoman’s sandals set
with gems as likely to start a fashion—;
is the jardiniere, a silver filigree bas
ket filled with flowers, flat on the side
next tho form and hung from the
waist like a chateblaine bag'. A glass
lining permits this to be filled with
water, in which the flowers keep fresh
for many hours.
The cifj of Little Rock, Arkan
sas, put in circulation upwards of
SIOO,OOO of noles, obligations to
pay, and which passed current as
any other money, in banks, stores
and all other places in‘the city.
They were decided illegal in the
Chancery Court of Pulaski county,
afterwards bonded and tho bonds
subsequently repudiated. After
several years the city was sued by
a number of of parties—the mer
chants' National -Sank being tbe
chief plantiff—aggregating a total
stun of $40,000 or mure, and upon
these Judge Dillon, of the United
State Circuit Court, recently de
cided in favor of plaintiff
Ilorse tkiefs arc dealt with lather
roughly iu Western Kansas. For
sometime past the practice has been
going on pretty extensively. One
ol the citizens of Belleville lost a team
of horses recently, and called his
neighbors together and started in
pursuit of the thief. After hard rid
ing overtook the rougue, and catried
him to jail. At night a mob broke
into the jail and curried off’the horse
thief, and the next morning ho was
found hanging upon a butcher’s der
rick half a riffle from town. On the
back of the corpse was a card with
this grim epitaph: *• ’Tis said man is
the noblest work of Go l l, but in this
case it was a failure. Horse thieves,
beware! Take notice of your doom.
Shipped by lightning express to a
damned eternity.”
Subscription, $2 00
It isYi great irtisfortune to have
a fretful disposition. It takes the
fragrance out of one’s life, and
leaves only weeds where a cheer
ful disposition would cause flowers
to bloom. The habit of fretting is
one that grows rapily unless it be
sternly repressed ; the best way is
to look on the cheerful side of
things.
•'John Phoenix,” (be American hu
morist, being one night at a theatre
fancied he saw a friend some three
scats in lront of him. Turning to
his next neighbor ho said: “Would
you be kind enough to touch that
gentleman with your stick?” “Cer
tainly,” was the reply, and the thing
was clone; but when the individual
thus assaulted turn'd around, Phoe
nix saw he was not the man he took
him for, and became at once absorb
ed in the play, leaving liis friend to
settle matters with the gentleman in
fiont., which, as he had no excuse
handy, Was not donavwitbouc consid
erable trouble. When the hubbub
was over, the victim said: “Didn’t
you tell nie to tap that man with my
stick ?” “Yes.” “And what did you
want?” ‘‘Oil,” said Phoenix, with
imperturbable gravity, “I wanted to
see whether you vvou'd tap him of
not.”
A eonvict confined in the Erie
county, New York, penitentiary
known as Win. Foreman, and sen
tenced to 18 months service lor bur
glary and larceny had served six
months of the time, where a short
time ago a petition for his pardon whs
being considered, it was determined,
according to the laws of the peniten
tiary to examine carefully the state of
the prisoner’s health under Such cir
cumstances. The surgeon soon dis
covered that Wm. Freeman was a
woman. This led to the feveldtiou
of her real name, and some Circum
stances of her life. Ifer real ilaine is
Mary Anne Schafer, who left her
mother and step-father when only
11 years old, and to enable her the
better to get employment for
an independent living dressed in
boy’s clothes. She has ever since at
tired herself as a male and engaged
in all manner of hard woik cn a farm.
None but her mother and herself knew
her real personality until the lime re
ferred to. She is 23 years old, weighs
140 pounds, is healthy and good look
ing. She was removed to a secluded
apartment a.id dressed in female at
tire, and begged to be kept there fi r
life rather than expose her name and
change her clothing. After detection
she avers that though slio pleaded
guilty to the charge, it was under
tear, and that she is Innocent, and the
man who threatened her life to induce
the confession is sfill living.
No. 37.