The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-10-05
CHILD ABDUCTION.
The Romance Of Crime In Boston---A Child
stolen to Furnish n Young Couple with
nm Heir.

The Romance Of Crime In Boston---A child
stolen to Furnish n Young Couple with
nm Heir.
Every day there crops out an incident
in real life with as much romance and
crime in it as the most sensational novel
can develop. A case of child abduction
has taken place in Boston, attended
with cruelty, inhumanity and avaricious-
ness, compared with which the cele-
brated Charley Ross case dwindles into
insigpifcance, and which for several
months has been smothered from pub
licity in the community in which it
occurred. The affair is unlike the Ross
case in the particular that the child was
stolen for service in pecuniary trans
action in which it is presumed that q
handsome sum was realized by the alb.
duction.
1t seems, says a Boston paper, that
came to this city from California gen.
tleman and his wife, who were ap-
parently on pleasure tour. Whether
or not there existed previous &C.
quaintance is not material, but it is GER
tain that very soon after their arrival in
Boston they be came very intimate with
one of the city physicians, who, in turn,
became the chief principal in the abduc-
ton Of an infant child, and then hastily
fed the city in company with the gen
tleman and his wife just alluded to. 1t
seems that this California couple were
in sad need of baby, an apparent off
spring of their own, in order to secure
the full title to all immense property,
which was to follow if there was an
issue of their marriage within n certain
specified time. The matter of obtain
tanning this apparent heir was intrusted
to the physician, and under the prob
able stimulant of handsome reward he
did not hesitate to commit a crime
which involved his immediate and con-
tinued absence from these parts if he
would escape a criminal prosecution.
Fortunate for their plans, at about the
time of the advent of these California
parties to Boston neat and respectable
American girl made an application to a
Boston physician, and obtained through
him permit to enter lyiug-in hospital.
BY some means or other this fact be-
came known to the physician who im-
mediately sought the girl SO soon to be-
come mother, and persuaded her to
undergo her confinement at private
hospital. The proprietor of this private
institution, it is scarcely necessary to
add, was also handsomely rewarded, and
when once the young girl was safely
housed she and her offspring were at
the will and mercy of the physician.
A beautiful boy was soon born, and
after the physician became satisfied that
it was safe to take it from its maternal
parent, he intimated his purpose to the
young mother. It is said of her, and to
her credit, that she seemed to love the
little one with even more than a
mothers love. She clung to her Off
spring as only true woman can, so
that all efforts to persuade her to have
it sent away and takon care OF only
alarmed her the more lest she should
lose it altogether. all pleadines and
threats to induce the young mother to
part with her child were in vain, and
finally it was resolved to change the
tactics. To carry out the plans which
had thus far been commenced it was
absolutely necessary that the child
should be got possession of immediately.
The doctor now urged the girl to allow
him to take the infant down to hotel
in the immediate neighborhood, where,
he said, its presence was necessary in
order to certify that certain lady there
had given birth to child. When this
could be accomplished, the physician
said, the child would be returned to her.
After considerable persuasive argument
he young L. other consented to the loan
of he: child for the purpose named.
The physician agreed to return the in
FAINT within a specified time, but up to
the present the mother has seen nothing
OF her infant or its abductor. The
California couple disappeared at the
same time.