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Show j Recount of J t-r eitieiim oi.iti. c.irh.in j Garret ; tnitei y I l j I ; r-:i!!;. It till 3 will .-uoa be itarJri'.'J. Ruined her Father. St Louis, Die. 23 -Captain M. F. Gaiittt, an old Mississippi river stee.m- boi-t captain and later an employee ot tin- Government secret service, left St. Louis iu lSti with his two daughters, tig, d 12 and Hi years respectively, and went to Los Angeles, Cal. There the elder daughter, Mailah, met James E-lg-toiub, and the girl soon told her father she had bet n betrayed. After two day? of fruitless search for Edgcomri, with the intention of killing him, Captain Garrott swore out a warrant and had E igconib arrested. While in jail Edg comb sent for the girl aud married her, thus escaping punishment. Edgcomb after his release thirsted to bo revenged of Captain Garrett and persuaded Maiiah, with fiiends of hK to swear that it washer father and not Edgcomb who ruined her. Captain Garrett was com itted on the sole testimony ot his daughter aud sentenced to the penitentiary peniten-tiary for teu years, three of which he has now served. Maiiah aud her husband, Edgcomb. drifted to Mobile, Ala. where Edgcomb treated his young wife so shamefully that sho sought protection from William Young of that city, whereupon Edgcomb shot and seriously wouuded Mr. Young and his son and is no.v a fugitive from Alabama justice. Mailah has recently written a moat pathetic letter to Governor Markhaniof California, pleading plead-ing for her fa'her's pardon, aud stating that her testimony on which he was cunvictel was totally fab, and that s"ie was led to commit perjury by Edgcomb, who had great influence over her on |