The weekly clarion. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1863-1882, 1870-08-18
RECOVERY OF yIR. DsSsBX.~
CHILD EN NEW OEsE.EAN~.!
+ !. found ID the cifg, Bat q sIel, Dis,rl-s
from The Parau, Homo.
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from he Parents Homo.
From y. o. Times OF "Wednesday 10Th.
About O'Clock A. NJ. yesterday a neigh
Dor came into their house and Informed
Mrs. Digby that gentleman was az tht
door. Going out she found man OF about
the medium height. rather short. and with
grayish whiskers. who asked 10 see Mr.
Digby. Mr.. D., Who was iu bed az the dime
put his head out saying there ! am
The gentleman remarked, i think hay,
got Your child"
30 many similar statements had been
made 10 him during tire two months search
that ar first Mr.. Digby felt dubious. bat
hearing the assertion reiterated. he at once
made up his mind To accompany the gentle
man 10 his house. Mrs. Digbv also asked
permission 10 90. but fearing another dis
appointment Mr.. Digby considered IL best
for Ter to remain ar home. The two walked
out Baronne street. and took the Jackson
street ears.
The conversation, the exact words Of
which could not be remembered. so inn
pressed him with belief that the child was
nc last found and Mr.. u. became hoWildered
lie remembers thar they got ont at "A street
running parallel with the river. on which
there was no railroad. but whether n was
between Prytania aud Magazine or Maya
I zine and Annuuciation streets. he could NOT
tell.
They walked down toward Canal street
one square. and near the corner OF Josephine
street entered a handsome residence. II was
a house with two gates. \ lady was walk
/ ing up and down the hall with the child IN
I her arms. II was CRYING and She WAS en-
/ deayoring to soothe il. lie at once recog-
I niZed IL. and in his own words became 30
Hurried a 70 be unable to saw ANYTHING. The
/ only words he remembers was the question
rom the lady, II It's not your child what
will YOU do with it:i
/ He answered. III bring IL back" and
started for home. The child seems To have
suffered considerably; but being It's second
/ summer the most dangerous in Child's life.
/ this is probably owing To its teeth IL has
several boils on its face.
The residence ut which the child was found
I has been ascertaiued 10 be that of Captain
9roadwel, No. 10 Chestnut street. between
Josephine and St Andrew.
Supt. Badger, Capt. George. Commissioner
of Police, Special Officers Malone and Jourt
dain. Mr.. and Mrs. Digby, their child. aud
! the members OF the city press. visited THE
house about half-past 10 o'clock. At that
time no one was within, but in perhaps half
an hour Mrs. Broadwell returned
She refused TO admit but four persons. ami
on being questioned concerning the child.
stated that she had brought it from the
house OF a colored woman the evening be-
fore. Seeing the resemblance. Capt. Broudwcll
took the earliest opportunity OF aCquaintiug
Mr.. Digby ofthe fact.
On being asked the name of the woman
and her place of residence. she declined 10
f
had been guilty Of the abduction. She sta
ted that on Monday afternoon the woman
/ had sent message to herself aud Capt.
Broadwell. asking them TO come up to her
house. and informing them she had some
thing important to communicate.
They went up and the child collie was
produced. The woman informed her 30 had
been left in front Of her door last Wcdnc--
I day Icy another colored woman. and. having
children Of her own. and being uneasy al
I the fact a. a white child hAiVtr la Inf
she asked Mrs. Broadwell 70 keep it. and ii
! it was claimed return il 10 H. parents. capt.
and Mrs. Broadwell brought the child to
their house.
man was not named Ellen Angelo. aud n
she did not live at the corner of Belle Castle
and Camp street. Jefferson City. Mrs. Broad
well answered in the affirmative.
We are informed by Capt. George that
several days since he received private iufor-
nation 10 the effect that a coloTtd woman OF
that name had the child.
lie visited her house on Sunday. and was
kept waiting half an hour at the door be
fore he was admitted. The child. the Wo-
man Informed him, was not there then.
though he i confident 10 was, and was ta-
ken out the back way while he was waiting
at the door.
The visit to Capt. Broadwcll's house crca-
ted the greatest excitement IN the neighbor-
hood and in a very few minutes Chestnut
and Josephine streets were througcd with
ladies, all eager for view Of the much talk
eel of infant. The same excitement prevail
cd ut police headquarters, and during the
short stay made there by the Digbys the
building was crowded
The woman Ellen Angelo, whose name j.
also given AS Ellen Fnlhdm. and her SON
John Blass. boy about sixteen years Of
age. have been arrested. Sergeant Malone
made an affidavit against them, charging
them with knowingly harboriug and con-
cealing the abducted child. the mother "a
principal and the boy rs accessory. II Is
alleged by the police that, when they search
ed the house. the boy took the child IN his
arms and secreted himself behind the els
tern.
We hear but not from a source consider
ed absolutely authentic, that the woman
/ at first eyaded the questions Of the police
when they went to arrest her. but learning
/ that it had been recovered. ACKNOWLEDGED
that it had been left at her house. by some
one she did not know. on "Wednesday
The same authority informs Us that the boy.
on the contrary, declared the child had been
at the house three weeks.
Superintendent Badger informs our re-
porter that among the three persons found
in the house of Ellen Angelo, each told
different story.
A lady who reached there from Mobile.
three weeks ago, states that the child was IN
I the house when she arrived and had been
there ever since.
The boy says it hid been there for a
E
il only arrived on Wednesday.
The house. which is handsomely furnish
ed, Capt Badger says Is "A lying-in hospital.
and had the appearance of being a place
where unfortunate women could conceal
their shame.
The reward offered for the recovery of
the child. we are told. is claimed by Capt
Broadwell. who insists that the woman An
gelo is innocent. Sergeant Malone says, he
stated to him that rather than see the WOO
man in prison he would prefer To 90 there
himself
The boy confessed that. when Special OF
ficers Jourdian and Pierson searched his
mothers house, he took the child out, and
hid il behind the cistern.
This was about ten o'clock sunday night
August eth. The garden T. filed with
growing corn. which makes a place Of con-
cealment quite easy.
At eight O'Clock last evening Capt Broad
well visited the jefferson City station.
where the woman and her son was lockck
up. They were not released.
From the Picayune of the lIth.
NEW REV 1TEONS.
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