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Charlie Harper, son ol Dan Harper,ex-Representative of Bath county, and Henry Mockabee, of same county, are under arrest at Lexington, for abducting Sarah Jackson and Sarah Yaher, fromtheir homes near Olympia Station, and taking them to a house of disrepute keptby Mollie Long, The girls are 13 and 14years old. When found by the police,the girls claimed that they came away with the boys under the impression that one was to be married at Winchester, while the other was to act us attendant. In the Recorder’s Court Wednesday, theyoung men waived an examination, and were held over in the sum $700 for appearance in Circuit Court. The Lexington Press says- “It is of the opinion that Harper and Mockabee are good matches for Nea! and Craft,” The girls litve been returned home in the charge of an officer.
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