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A short time after the tirst messagewas received a second one came telling Mr. Buehler to get officers and come tip it once, as there was a stranger loitering around the depot who they thought was the man that had taken the child. Mr. Buehler got a wagon and took Marshal Duncan and Policeman Perdue, and went to Shattuc. Arriving there, they caught the supposed abductor and brought him before the little girl, but she said he was not the man who had caught her upon the streets of Centralia. A freight train bound east stopped at Shattuc while they were there, and a search was made to see if any stranger was around it, but aone was found. The train started up and was going at a lively rate when a man was noticed to jump aboard near the water tank south of the station, but no signal could be given the engineer and the tram couldnot be stopped.The officers and Mr. Buehler returnedbringing the little girl with them. She stated to her father that while going along the block east ef Ullyette's, a tall man with dark clothes, brown straw hat, white shirt, smooth face, and dark I complexion, approached her and askedher if she would not go to Poplar Bluft with him. She made a reply that she 1 could not go, when he seized her by I the arm and took her down the alley 1 west of Ullyette’s store, and over to I the Jacksonville track north of theI depot, and told her to go on out that way. She started up the track and the I man followed after her. She said that I she turned and looked back and ho 1 yelled after her to go ahead or be wouldI kill her. She kept on the go, running ahead of him, and going in ahead of; 1 him at the station no doubt saved her[ from being carried away. I The little girl had a good sleep and way enjoying herself around home thisII morning, none the worse for her long f I run ana scare.i Mr. Buehler hardly knows what to think of the matter, but seems inclined to believe that it was some ruffian that enticed the little girl away with the intention of doing her bodily harm; but 1 his threat to kill her had frightened “ her so badly that she made strenuous y efforts to kiop out of his way, and this 0 is what made her run such a long dis-!* tance. * __
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Centralia Daily Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 13, 1885
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