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Abduction Is Alleged

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Parent Issue
Day
4
Month
February
Year
1898
Copyright
Public Domain
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bavannah, (Ja., Feb. 1- Marión Manola and her hueband, Jack Masón, of the of Manola-Mason Opera troupe, have been left stranded here by their manager, Harry Askins, and Mrs. Mason has wíred to New York to have Askins arrested orj the arrival of the steamer City of Augusta there, charged with the abduction of her 17-year-old daughter, Adelaide Mason, whose engragement to Charles Dana Borrow, the nephew of Speaker Reed, was announced last week. When the company arrived here there was some disagreement between the principáis ending in a personal difflculty between two of the officials of the company, and the next day in the dismemberment of the organization. Askins summarily deserted nis stars and made arrangements to leave for New York un the City of Augusta. Before leaving Askins induced Miss Mason to desert her mother and father and go to New York with him. The young actress is ambitious, and Askins, it is said, promised to make her a Mary Anderson if she would follow him. Miss Mason and Askins seem to have been on friendly terms during the entire tour, ind it is believed that the denouement has been brewing for some time.

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Ann Arbor Argus
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