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148 GIRL AB3UCTED.
HER LOVER HIDES HER ON A LONELY
ISLAND IN THE CH ATTAHOOCHEE.
A Foolish Girl Paysthe Penalty of Disobe
dience to her Parents.
ForTt GAiNes, Ga., April 4.—Thestory
of the abduction of Miss Llaura Brooks,
who was spirited to a swamp and kept
there for weeks, is not an ‘‘April Fool”
yarn, as some have supposed, but an
actual fact. The address of the out
raged father and victimized daughter is
Mr. W. R. Brooks and Miss Laura
Brooks, Coleman, Ga., and Mr. Allen
White, Ft. Gaines, Ga., and these par
ties attest the truth of the story which,
as given in full, is as follows:
Miss Laura Brooks had a sweetheart
whose name is Archie Bighee. He ap
pearee to be a respectable young fellow,
but the girl's father did not approve of
their marriage, especially as Bigbee had
frequently expressed a determination
to go west and follow for a livelihood in
the footsteps of the once notorious Jesse
James.
The young lady having learned to love
and trust her suitor,felt that her father’s
objections were possibly too severe, and
her warm heart over-flowed with sym
pathy for her lover, but she refused to
“marry him and go west, agreeing only
to link destinies with him if he would
settle down in this country.
THE ELOPEMENT.
To this the family consented, and an
elopement was arranged, he promising
to bring her to Ft. Gaines, get married
and then return home. The fatal night
arrived, and Bigbee with it prepared for
the flight. The young girl bade a sad
goodby to the home of her happy child
hood and confidingly launched forth in
to the arena of life with the man of her
choice. They immediately started as
the poor girl thought, to wed, but before
rearhing here Bigbee manufactured a
plausible lie, to the effect that he could
not come here, alleging that the local
officers held a warrant for him, so they
headed for Coleman.
Finally they left the public highway
and the peaceful homes by the wayside,
and took their way through a plantation
road, until the rushing waters of the
Chattahoochee began to dance before
them in the starlight. A campfire glim
mered among the tangled wildwood and
a dirty, dilapidated tent stood in the
background. Bigbee drove up and as
sisted his fair and helpless victim to
alight, when they were met by a couple
of brigandish looking outlaws, Bill Car
lisle and John Moore, and a ‘“‘tough’
female with all the delineations of the
slum depieted on her countenance.
Such was Bigbee's introduction of the
confiding girl to her future home and
associates.
PLEADING FOR RELEASE,
She begged to be permitted to return
home, but was promptyy informed that
such a requst could not even be enter
tained. She next implored her abduec
tor to marry her, but he coolly told her
that such a course was not necessary,
did not meet with his apprebation and
must be abandoned. She was placed
uuader the closest possibly espionage and
not allowed to absent herself at any time
from the secluded swamp rendezvous of
the outlaw trio.
The following night they packed up
bag and baggage, embarked in their
battean and skulked away in the dark
ness down the river, stealing everything
they came across that they could con
sume or carry.
The grief-stricken father, almost fran
tic with apprehensions, only succeeded
a few dayssince in securing information
regarding their whereabouts, and im
mediately, in company with Mr. Allen
White, left in pursuit. Just below the
Florida line they heard of the fugitives
and pushed ahead, but Dbefore they
reiched the camp Carlisle, who was out
on a scout, intercepted them.
He said the arrest of any or ali of the
party was impossible, especially by only
two persons, as they were all heavily
armed and had resolved to die rather
than surrender, but that for $lO he
would agree to carry one of them to the
place in his boat, if he woula go un
armed, and also endeavor to induce Big
bee to give up the girl.
TOOK MISS BROOKS AWAY,
They accepted the proposition and
White embarked with him. He found
the camp located on an isolated island
ina dense jungle and completely hid
den. The poor girl was raptously glad
to see White and began begging him at
once to rescue her from her wretched
position. Bigbee appeared on the scene
with his Winchester, and had it not been
for the interference of Carlisle and the
prayers of the girl, he would have, as
he said, ‘“made catfish bait out of him."
White exercised all his powers of argu
ment, persuasion and cunning in at
tempting to get possession of the girl,
but to no purpose. Finally, after re
maing all night at the camp, he came
away with her under the protection of‘
Carlisle and his Winchester. ;
THE GIRL'S STORY. i
Miss Brooks tells not only a pitiful but
a startling story of cruelty, lawless
ness and outlawry since her retnrn. She
says they obtain all their supplies by
stealing them from residents along the
river, thinking nothing of slaughtering
a hog or a beef when they wished fresh
meat.
Report says that a reward of $5OO in
Columbus hangs over Carlisle, and that
Mr. Brooks has put out one of $3OO for
Bighee. The sympathy of every onme
goes out to the unfortunate lady and
her family, and if Bigbee is caught, as
no doubt he will be, to stand in his
shoes would be cheap at any price.
A Pathetic Monkey Story.
A pathetic monkey story is told by
“The Naturalist en the Prowl’” in the
Times of India. He says:
“‘One morning on a rocky hill, sparsely
covered with small trees, I disturbed a
troop of monkeys, which made a bolt
over the open ground to some thicker
forests in the valley below. Three, how
ever, disregarding me, remained in one
tree, making horrible noises at something
underneath. I soon discovered that the
object of their indignation was a brutal
looking black dog, which was busily de
vouring something at the root of the
tree. When the dog saw me it made off
carrying in its mouth a black thing, like
a little animal, %ith legs and a long tail,
[ guessed it was a baby monkey, and
gave chase as hard as I could, but the*
dog made good its escape without drop
ping its prey.
‘*Coming back to the tree, I searched
the ground, and found the body of an
other little infant, still warm. How did
the poor little thing fall into the jaws of
that brute? I have often seen an infant
of the same size clinging to its mother’s
breast in perfect rest and security while
she took most daring bounds from tree
to tree. Perhaps the dog surprised the
monkey on the open ground, and pressed
the mother so hard that she dropped her
offspring to save her own life. Or per
haps they were enjoying a picnic in fan
cied security, and had laid down their
little ones when the Zulu rushed upon
them. While I was examining the limp
little body to see whether life was ex
tinct, a pitiful wail told me that its
mother was watching me. She had re
tired to another tree some distance off,
and was wistfully gazing at me, wonder
ing what T was doing with her precious
babe. 1 saw that there was no hope, but
I retired and hid myself to see what she
would do. She came down at once and
approached cautiously, distrusting me
and lumping me in her mind, do doubt,
with the brutal black dog. Then she
stood upon a stone, and standing erect,
looked all round, and gave a plaintive
scream. Where was her darling? At
last she found it, and caught it up, and
pressed it to her bosom. But it could not
lay hold of her; it fell. Againand again
she raised it, and encouraged it to clasp
her in its arms, as it had always done.
“She did nct seem to understand it
was dead. At length she held it to her
bosom with one hand, and tried to run
on three, lest the black dog might re
turn. When she got to a safe tree she
clambered up as best she could,fhugging
her precious charge with one arm, and
there she gave way to her grief, and
cried piteously, while a kite sailed grim
ly round the tree, as if claiming his own.
I have oftened wondered what she did in
the end with the little lifeless body; I
cannot believe that she left it to the kite,
It would not surprise me to know that
she buried it, or laid it in some hollow
and covered it with leaves and stones.’
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‘“‘What progress are you making with
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**No perceptible progress as yet, but
I hope for a favorable change in a day or
two.”
“Indeed? On what grounds?"
‘““Her mother has been warning her
against me.” |
THE FIRST BALLOT.
Ho'v the Vote in the Democratic Conven
tion Will Probably Stand.
The New York Press’ Washingtou cor
r spondent has interviewed the Sepnators
and Representatives from all the States,
and zives the probable first ballot in the
D mocratic convention in June as fol
-IHws:
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TIRNBIIE Lt oo oiaaei e i DR
No votes will be cast for Gorman,
wh )se strength, it is said, will lie on the
tible with other candidates, as dark
h ‘rses,
The votes against Mr. Cleveland, and
not committed to other candidates, will
be 78. Georgia's 26 votes are put down
as being against Cleveland.
The same correspondent says that Mr.
Harrison would be nominated by accla
mation if the Minneapolis convention
was held now,
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UR FACILITIES for advancing to plantess for” the
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