Bradford Reporter

Chloroform and Robbery on the Cars.

We find the following in the Lion (N.Y.) Independent, showing how villainously a lady passenger from Baltimore was robbed:

On Friday evening, on our way from Utica to Ilion, a young lady by the name of Parker informed us that Mrs. David Wright, of Toronto, had been robbed on the cars near Poughkeepsie on thanksgiving night under the following circumstances: She was on her return home from Baltimore, where she had been to visit Mrs. Hawkins, the wife of the Washingtonian lecturer. Among the passengers who had got on board the train at Baltimore was a tall, dark-eyed, well dressed and genteel looking lady, who sat down by the side of Mrs. Wright.

"Are you traveling alone?" asked the stranger. "I am," was the reply.

"How far are you going?" "To Canada" was the answer. The conversation thus commenced was continued a long time. They passed through Philadelphia and New York on the most friendly terms, and were hurrying along the Hudson road, when the stranger inquired of Mrs. W. if she could change a five dollar bill for her. Mrs. W. replied that she could not, and in order to show her willingness to do so, had she been able, she pulled out her wallet, and displayed three twenty dollar gold pieces, a ten dollar gold piece, some small change and a check. By and by Mrs. W. complained of a pain in the head. "Oh!" said the stranger, "I have some cologne with me, let me put a little on your temples, it will, doubtless, relieve you." Mrs. W. immediately sank to sleep and remained insensible until the Conductor shook her awake and demanded her ticket. It was with the utmost difficulty he could wake her. He finally hoisted the window of the car, and the fresh air relieved the unfortunate woman. She put her hand into her pocket, when to her astonishment and dismay she found that her wallet, containing her money, her ticket and her check had gone, and the strange woman, who had been so attentive, had also disappeared.

The gentlemanly conductor endeavored to console her with the promise that he would see to her baggage at Albany. But when they arrived at Albany it was ascertained that there was no baggage there for her. The baggage master said a lady and gentleman got off (we think at Hudson.) and said their baggage directed to Albany must be left there and not taken to the place where they first intended to leave it. In this way Mrs. Wright lost her money, her jewelry, and her clothing.

This female robber wore a black velvet bonnet trimmed with scarlet flowers, a dark mantilla, is lady-like in her demeanor, wears a fascinating smile, and is, undoubtedly, the same person who played the confidence game with the merchants and hotel keepers at Baltimore, a short time since. Mrs. Wright was too sensitive to make known her moneyless situation, and did not eat a morsel of food for nearly two days, when she providentially met her friend Miss or Mrs. Parker, who furnished her with funds. Mrs. Wright is a very estimable woman of high social position, and we hope her husband, who is a man of property and standing, will spare no pains to ferret out the female highway woman, who presents the bottle instead of the pistol, in society instead of solitude, and takes away the sense and then the purse of the victim.