Show 10 YEARS strange story of a young lady WHO WAS when a child by a trapper the oldest man in america FORT DODGE io march 18 mary puckett a young lady whose home i just now in carrol county is the ahro ine of a fiory of abduction exile aud final restoration as strange as hax beba recorded jn any romance ten years ago while herding her fathers cattle on a dakota farm mary was by a black hills trapper soe was then 13 years old her capia ir essed the girl in boys clothe anu oi inree years compelled ner to do die drudgery of his lonely cap at the end of this urns the trapper old and feeble moved to a point on the mississippi kiver near the southeast corner of arkansas here they lived on a flatboat flat boat mary had by this time resumed the artir of her ex and was introduced ax the niece of hr aged abductor the girl soon forgot a 1 about her old home and friends abid lived the bard life required of her without a thought of belter times about six ago some neighbors became interested in her and inquired about her former life all that she could ris member was that ahe libed ac oue time iu carroll county lo 10 marys new found friends wrote to the county clerk county who sent the letter to the carroll papers in one of it reached the eye of the lot girls afrand 1 father elijah who immediately sent his ion to aate the truth of the story the young man found the girl now 23 years ow and soon convinced her of her identity alary was only too glad to escape from the rough life she had bien leading willingly agreed to accompany her rescuer home the old trapper when he found that bis villainy had been discovered backe down and pleaded for mercy on account of his eray i hairs he was not mary luckett aft r her ten years of slavery is now living quietly on the puckett farm near lake city and is preparing to make up for lost time by going to school her parents are livine somewhere in nebraska and are not yet aware of the rescue of their child whom for ten years they have mourned as dead |