The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-12-17
KIDNAPPED, AND RESCUED.
Two Catholic Children Abducted from Their
Employment by the Daughter Of Uni
tartan Minister and secreted in Prot
estant Asylum-Judge Barretts Order
Unearths Them-The Case in Court
The Old Grandmother's Story.
The Mother Dead and the Father Drunken
Orangeman, Who Had Abandoned
Her Years Before.

The spirit OF sectarian bigotry which the HERALD
has always endeavOred to break down shows itself
once and again in the Over-zealous actions OF
otherwise well meaning persons. 1t is well known
that in this city there are thousands Of homeless
and orphaned children who are legitimate objects
for charity and for Christian education, that IT
should hardly be necessary to invade individual
homes, however humble, to abduct children
against the viii OF their lawful protectors. Yet
case presenting just this phase was before
Judge Barrett yesterday in the Supreme
Court Chambers. The story is briefly
told and as CLEANED by HERALD representative
from Mrs. Quinn, the grandmother OF the abducted
children; from the Rev. Father Mooney her pastor,
and to whom she applied for advice and protec-
ton in her extremity, and from Mr.. Nugent, the
President OF st. Vincent de Paul's Society, whose
ward in some sense Mrs. Quinn is, the facts are
as follows:- ..-,
Mrs. Quinn Is
sIMPLE-M1NDED OLD IRISH WOMAN
who has lived some SIX or seven years In the
neighborhoOd Of st. Bridget's church, in avenue
B. She has therefore been parishioner OF Father
Moneys during that time. Her brother, John
Noonan, was soldier In the Sixty ninth regiment,
and was killed in the first battle OF Bull Run, and
as Father Mooney was chaplain OF that regiment
during the war, he in her hadfnore than ordinary
interest, she being q soldiers relative. Mrs.
Qunns daughter was married to an ac
knowledged worthless fellow named Earle, who
treated his wife badly while he lived with her, and
finally abandoned her in her sickness and left
her alone to die. Mr. and Mrs. Earle lived inst out
side the parish limits OF Keyport, N J. They had
three bright little chdren--Mary, aged at the
present time fourteen; Catherine twelve and
Johnny eight. Earle worked in a brickyard in
Jersey and by some accident there he lost an arm
Thus incapactated from following that business he
DoNNED SOLDIERS UNIFORM AND PURCHASED
HAND ORGAN
and ground out real patriotic tunes In this city for
the delectation OF the kindhearted and benevolent
Gothamites. Meantime anxiety and overworK and
she sickened. Her mother Mrs. Quinn, who lived
and worked IN the city, broke up housekeeping
care for her sick daughter. After an absence OF
many months Earle returned to his Jersey home,
and concluded that 1t would be better TO bring his
wife and children to New York. They all came
hlther, but as soon as he had them housed he went
on on his grand organ tunes and lett wife ami
mother ann chnren to SHIFT for themselves. Three
years ago Mrs. Earle died and was buried by her
mother Fearing that her worthless husband would
take the children, ana, perhaps, make bad use Of
them,
THE DYING WOMAN
got friend to draw up memorandum of her
left the children In the care Of their grandmother.
For three years the old lady has nursed and cared
not received cent toward their support from her
son-in-aw. Indeed, he did not call to see them
an e rev rss a @ sek
them. subsequently Miss Anna Bellows, daugh,.
6eefsteak church, in Fourth, avenue, and Miss
offered pay her rent and take good care Of her il
she would let them take and educate the children.
The ola h lady spufned the proposition on in every
whom she termed "a stale maid who wears
specs" to get the girls positions in Macys store in
Stvf Dnf favu thny lien
peared from this place, and all the inquiries of Mrs
Quinn tailed to ind out their hiding place.
MISS BELLOWS AGAIN CALLED
and reiterated her proposition; but the old grand
mother wanted nothing but her children. Miss
Bellows would furnish no information about them.
The old lady threatened to tell her pastor, but the
jealous proselytzers did not care for Father
Mooney. They left Mrs. Quinn to find out her
wards il she could She at once appealed to her
pastor, who, after making proper inquiries 10 as
certain that the case was one in which he might
the children upon Miss Bellows, which, being re.
fused he handed it over to his lawyer, Mr.. Ben-
Vile, who sued out
WRIT OF HABEAs CORPUS,
which was returnable yesterday before Judge
Barrett. The parties were in the Judges cham
said that the Children were not in her possession
nor under her control, she having placed them in
ST. Barnabas Home, IN Mulberry street a new
into Court to-day to be handed over to the OF
the grandmother, who for the past three years has
speaks Of them in terms OF the fondest affection
and pathetically describes her
SORROW AT THEIR SUPPOSED LOSS.
Little Johnny, too, has felt SO lonesome that he
has worried day and night for the past week over
his misfortune. He goes to school every day and
is q bright little fellow Mrs. Quinn is justly in
dignant at the trick which she thinks was played
upon her by placing the girls in store for week
and then transferring them to Protestant nsti-
tuition without her knowledge and consent. She
declares also that she has had on one occasion to
protect her life with hammer lest her sOn-in-law
should kill her, as he had attempted 10 do. Be-
sides being lazy, good for nothing fellow he is re-
presented as man of very violent temper. Ii ap-
pears that he Is an Orangeman, and
THE FAMILY TROUBLES
first grew out Of this religious difference. Mrs.
Quinn and her daughter had religious pictures and
images in their humble home, on the walls and
mantel pieces, aud one day In drunken spree
Earle the old lady remarked, clipped the wings OF
the blessed Virgin But she has kept the wingess
image ever since. and chershes it the more be-
cause Of Its escape from total destruction The Sis
tiers OF Charity it appears, have gwen the children
medals OF merit in school, Their father, in an.
other drunken moment, attempting to cut OF their
necks, thinking they were "scapulars or
agnes Del" very nearly cut his eldest daughters
jugular vein. Mrs. Quinn does not know where
Earle is now but 1t is presumed he s at the bottom
OF this case some way. The children, OF their own
choice and at the instance Of their deceased
mother and their grandmother, have assumed the
maternal name. The case Is certainly one, as rep
rpSepted which deserves condemnation