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ABDUCTION OF MISS GLENN. 423
my speaking to her I went into my bed-room, where she fol-
lowed me. I had not given her any encouragement to follow
me into my bed-room. She then said she always had a great
regard for me : that she felt very much Mr. Bowditch’s at-
tachment to me, and spoke in the same manner about it as
Mrs. Mulraine had done, and about the difference between
usand also said, she never saw any thing so resolute as Mr.
Bowditch; that was her expression. He had sworn that if
he could not have me, no one else should; and that in what-
ever part of the world I went, he would find me out and
murder me, and she prayed me not to tell either her master
or mistress, meaning my aunt and uncle, and she used to
come to me every opportunity : I never went to my room at
any other time, but she used constantly to come to me, and
always spoke of the same subject, entreating me not to tell
my aunt and uncle, for that I, was too young to know the
danger I should be put into. Elizabeth Snell was the house-
maid, and she used to talk to me upon the same subject: once
when she came into the bed-room she found me crying, and
told me not to vex myself. 1 came home on the Wednesday,
and Monday was the 15th. I wTas crying when Elizabeth
Snell came into my room. I was crying about what Mrs.
Mulraine, Betsey Bowditch, and Jane Marke, had been speak-
ing to me. Elizabeth Snell begged me not to vex myself as I
did. I asked her how I could help it,/and that it made me
so miserable, that to relieve my mind I must speak to my
aunt and uncle about it. She then said, “ So, Miss, I would
devise you to do or some such expression. I said, What,
and to do what Mr. Bowditch tells me, or be murdered?
“ Oh Miss,” said she, and she shook her head and wrung her
hands, i( what a dreadful thing it is; I would not be you for
all the Indies in gold, but I will have nothing to do with it
one way or the other.” I think she then left the room, and
did not say any more ; it was in the same week of the Sa-
turday I put my name to some paper. I also saw Jane
Marke and Elizabeth Snell, but not together, and Jane
my speaking to her I went into my bed-room, where she fol-
lowed me. I had not given her any encouragement to follow
me into my bed-room. She then said she always had a great
regard for me : that she felt very much Mr. Bowditch’s at-
tachment to me, and spoke in the same manner about it as
Mrs. Mulraine had done, and about the difference between
usand also said, she never saw any thing so resolute as Mr.
Bowditch; that was her expression. He had sworn that if
he could not have me, no one else should; and that in what-
ever part of the world I went, he would find me out and
murder me, and she prayed me not to tell either her master
or mistress, meaning my aunt and uncle, and she used to
come to me every opportunity : I never went to my room at
any other time, but she used constantly to come to me, and
always spoke of the same subject, entreating me not to tell
my aunt and uncle, for that I, was too young to know the
danger I should be put into. Elizabeth Snell was the house-
maid, and she used to talk to me upon the same subject: once
when she came into the bed-room she found me crying, and
told me not to vex myself. 1 came home on the Wednesday,
and Monday was the 15th. I wTas crying when Elizabeth
Snell came into my room. I was crying about what Mrs.
Mulraine, Betsey Bowditch, and Jane Marke, had been speak-
ing to me. Elizabeth Snell begged me not to vex myself as I
did. I asked her how I could help it,/and that it made me
so miserable, that to relieve my mind I must speak to my
aunt and uncle about it. She then said, “ So, Miss, I would
devise you to do or some such expression. I said, What,
and to do what Mr. Bowditch tells me, or be murdered?
“ Oh Miss,” said she, and she shook her head and wrung her
hands, i( what a dreadful thing it is; I would not be you for
all the Indies in gold, but I will have nothing to do with it
one way or the other.” I think she then left the room, and
did not say any more ; it was in the same week of the Sa-
turday I put my name to some paper. I also saw Jane
Marke and Elizabeth Snell, but not together, and Jane