AN ATRCIOUS CRIME.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 215, 19 October 1878, Page 5

AN ATRCIOUS CRIME.

The San Francisco correspondent of the Dunedin Times narrates the following horrible circumstances; — 1 ha New Yoik Times of £Bib July adds to the criminal record an account of perhaps (be most audacious crime ever perpetrated in this country.. Il appears that come months eince a married lady of Boston, of greßt refinement and beauty, and occupying a prominent social positioD, bad beeo visiting frienda in the interior of this Btete, and when leaving took a drawicg-room car on the Nsw York Centrul road for Albany, where her husband awaited her. Two villains followed her into the car, probably attracted by tbe valuable jewellery she wore, and when tbe conductor approached the lady for her ticket, they informed him that they were her friends; fchat eb.e w#e derauged; and that they had ' unfortunately lpen selected to fionveyherto tbe jTJtiea Aeyl^rH, In spite of her protestations and appeals for protection, tbe scoundrels succeeded in convincing the conductor and paieengersof the tru'b o| ijjeir s oiy, and ietnovei the iflJy frona tbe pars #■. Ulicß, she awooDiDg db the trein moved away. She was then lifted into a coach, chloroformed, t»Leo to a house of ill-repute, cv raged and robboJ of her jewellery an-1 clothing Her husband learned ut his wife's alleged ioeaoity when the train arriye.l at Albany, gnd procured s special engine and started for tJ^Cft without deluy. Upon arrivioc, c few enquh:?B ena^ldil him tj finJ the dUreputAble house where big ytiie had been taken, and there he found her lying upon a bed, Repose stripped of

her clothing, and her mind seriously injured by her terrible experience. No names are given from considerations of delicacy. The husband has made every effort consistent with privacy to diecover the fiends, but so far without avail,