6 Oct 1838 - New York Daily Herald (New York City)

Vol IV, No 125, Page 2, Column 3

The Beautiful Cigar Girl - The announcement in the morning papers yesterday, that this young lady had eloped, was all false. She merely went on a visit to her aunt in Brooklyn. She was absent from home but five hours; but during that time, a young girl, her acquaintance, full of mischief, wrote the letter in question, which so alarmed her mother, and led to the erroneous conclusion drawn in the papers.