A ROMANTIC STORY.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 6, 8 January 1908, Page 3

A ROMANTIC STORY.

A strange and rojnantio story has just been given, publicity, which reads more like a piece of wild fiction than a thing of fact, writes ari Ottawa correspondent of t|© Otago Daily Times. :During t% TOof 1906 Fred. 0, Dorway, a telegraph operator in the service of ; the Canadian-Pacific, was stationed at Rash Lake, Saskatchawan. , One bitter night in November, when the east-bound Imperial Limited was being run in two sections in a blinding snowstorm, the second section crashed into the first near Moose Jaw. Hew Zealanders who have crossed the Canadian continent will probably recall the riswne. Dorway yreni to the scene of the wreck, and in the }&st.. sleeper he found Mrs J. H. James, of Fifth Avenue, New York, who was severely injured. He assisted :in carrying her to a section house, put his; fur coat about the unconscious woman, and summoned medical assistance.' Then he carried her to the nearest house. He paid the attending physician £5, and, after Mrs James bad been taken to New York he sent the bill, stating that he could not spare the money. In the meantime Doriyay was trans^ ferred to Sudbury, and a short time afterwards received a notification from Mrs James's solicitors that she had died and had left him £36,000. Then the troubles of the young heir began. He placed the case in the hands of lawyers, and later was'required to go to New Yprk. There he was drugged, and when he regained his senses found himself a prisoner in (the filthy hold of a ship at sea. After a long confinement, he escaped on© night, knocking one of his guards overboard in doing so, and discovered that he was in Vera Cruz, Mexico. His long imprisonment had rendered him temporarily blind, and he was sent to gaol. In time he escaped, and after much wandering about, secured passage on a ship which brought him to San Francisco in August last. Being penniless, it took him some time to reach his friends. At last he was joined by his- wife, who believed him dead, and, having influential relatives, he is now in a fair way of receiving his legacy.