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Show JTIlss Aldridge's Narrow Escape. Mattom, Illinois, February 13. Last night at 10 o'clock at Windsor, near here, Miss Georgia Aldridge narrowly escaped hanging at the hands of unknown parties. She was alone in her house at the time, and stepped out-doors, when she was seized, her hands and feet weighted down with bricks, and then hung up to die. She was accidentally discovered a few minutes afterwards by her brother, who came in the back way by chance. Life was almost extinct. She can give no account of the affair, being so overcome over-come by the shock. . A note was found saying say-ing that it was done to get even with her father, Dr. Aldridge. Miss Georgia is a highly respectable young lady, aged 24. No clue to the perpetrators has yet been found. Intense excitement prevails at Windsor over the affair. , - |