Show AND KEPT KEPI A PRISONER TWO IVO I WES WEEKS TO FORtE FORCE HER INTO MARRIAGE Secured Liberty Through Aid of Friends but the Bold Bad Villain Still Camps on H Her Herr r r- r Trail MARION rARIO Ind md Dec 3 I driven m many ny miles In a closed t d cab rob th Ui n Imprisoned for Cor d days rs in a i room In tn a lonel lonely spot pot In Missouri escaped fr frEedom frEe edom e dom for Cor or years and then two more morp attempts at- at tempts at at 1 Is the experience c of ot Mrs Irs Jennie Davis DaI formerly Jennie Martin of or East Eit First street t. t Mrs Davis ls Is now S years ears of age ase and J IP If milking nakIn h her r home Mr lr and Mrs Harvey NcR She was born at Paulding 0 O. where whore she fhe he lived until 1 11 it I years year of ot age aSe hen When 10 years ears of age her mOl her died l leaving ht her r and one after her mothers mother's mothers mother's mothers mother's moth moth- older sister Four years ears ear ers er's dea death th her her f father removed to Missouri Mis MIS- Ils- Ils I and md purchased l a farm near Mal Mai Ial- Ial den fien She said Mid her older older sister was married married mar mar- ried ned and lived at nt Maiden MalIen len Her father wanted her to marry a man who was wasI I 40 years ars of age and who h hal had ll pl plenty nt ormont of or mo mont money n ey Was Secretly I Married I I objected to the proposed marriage said MId Mrs l Davis I anti and when 17 Ii years cars of John paIs Da Pa- pa- pa nee age was vaS secretly married to vh vis Is an engineer on the Iron Mountain in railroad My lY husband W was S killed In Ina ina a n. railroad wreck a short lime after our marriage e. e and I was iLs notified b by a tele tele- gram This Thi was the first that m my father ath r knew of oC m my marriage and after the death of oC my husband he was was more more than th demands that I ever cr persistent In his marry marn the man whom he had selected for my husband Prisoner Two Weeks I refused to da d. so and went to the home o of m my sister While standing Inthe in inthe inthe the front yard yord at her home on one evening e a a cab stopped in front tronto of the house and an unknown man came Into the yard rard He spoke to me and then threw a shawl In the cab ab over o my head and placed mc me Wre rc were ere driven many miles mUes and finally stopped in some pome me lonely spot when I Iwas Iwas Iwas was removed from the cab and taken into a room in an old house The room wa was barricaded and no lI light ht was al allowed allowed al- al 10 lowed ed to penetrate the place I 1 was kept a prisoner o N being attended attended attended at at- tended b by a n woman who came to my room three times a da day and gave c a me food No one visited me during that time except my father who called once and asked me mc If I had decided to marry the theman theman thenan man nan he had bad selected elected for m me I told him himI I had not and he left This Is the last time I ever er saw him She Secured Liberty I I I finally Induced the woman to mall mail malla maila a letter for me roe which I wrote to a gentleman sen- sen gen gen- tieman friend The fhe friend found me three days das later and md as no guard except except ex ex- ex- ex the woman was vas present he took me in a buggy at night and drove e to toa a railroad station and started for St. St Louis We arrived at St. St Louis at j 7 i o o'clock clock In th the morning and my nn friend returned home in the afternoon at 3 o'clock so o that he would not he be missed and ac- ac o of liberating mo me I p procured employment employment em em- at St St. Louis where there I re- re for sonic fomo time and then came cameto to Marion Marlon where I have ha since re remained remained remal re- re mal ned UI U. U Her IreI Still After I received a telegram two weeks a ago o last Saturday signed by my father rather in which he said paid he would be after me mc the following Sunda Sunday No doubt he has learned where I am through relatives with whom hom I I. t corresponded and knowIng knowIng know- know Ing that I 1 would not go SO with him Is at attempting attempting attempting at- at tempting to kidnap me The man who attacked me Frida Friday night was large lane wore dark clothing and a Derby hat but ut as I did not get to see Eec him well at nn any time could not Identify him and I cannot sa say he Is 19 the same man who me In Missouri |