The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1877-06-12
A STOLEN CHILD.
THE CASE OF LITTLE MARY MAsTERsoN- RE-
covERY OF THE cHILD-THE ABDucroR.

THE CASE OF LITTLE MARY MAsTERsoN--RE-
covERY OF THE CHILD-THE ADDUCToR.
PHILADELPHIA, June IL, 1871
On the 1ltn of April little girl named Mary Mas.
terson. who resided with her grandmother Mrs. Ann
White, at No. $50 Charles street. disappeared from
her homo II appeared that old woman calling
herself Fannie Brown had for SIX days before this
time lodged with tho grandmother, who was poor and
glad to get the twenty-five cents a night which Mrs.
Brown paid. This woman told Mrs. White that she
pected sister to como In q few days, and. on the
ovopinG OF April s. u woman, whose name learned
to be Mary Emerson, called Fannie Brown, but
refused lodgings by mrs. Whitc who did not like her
appearance. Mary went away, and Mrs. White noticed
that took particular notice OF tho little girl aud her
grandmother, remembering tho fate OF Charley Ross,
felt no little alarm. That night Fannie Brown did not
rsiasn lodging house and tho next day the child
was missing. search at once instituted ana tho
discovery that tho child had besa In company
with Fannie Brown Mary Emerson subso :
o"cn ayTcs'e% as o,S ih. rarn nfaa
had brother living at Newark, n. j., where she NJ
went but tailed TO ascertain anything regarding
the abductors whereabouts the most thorough search
being made there rs vol rs In New York and Brook
lyn. Mrs. Emerson stated that Fannie Brown had =
husband and children living somewhere IN Utah, aud IL
her go there taking tho child with hcr
to assist 10 begging and selling perforated cards TO
enable &c, TO pay nSs pasaS pno h BENG
sided the slums Of tho city, and madc her living by
begging, little reliance placed IN the story but II
appears 10 have been tue truth.
ARREST LOUIS
On tho sta OF June Chief Of Police Jones received
letter from Chief McDonough oil the ST. Louis police,
stating that no had arrested Mrs Fannie Brown for
vagrnncv, and that sno had IN her possession bright
little GIRL about seven years old who SAID her name
Mary Mastcrson, and that she lived IN Philadelphia.
Chief Jones immediately photographed back to detain
tho woman child until no could send
detective on. On Friday evening Detective
Umstcad loft for ST. Louis, where he found the woman
child, both OF whom he brought 10 this city, Ar
and, on being questioned, acknowledged TO having
takon the child AWAY She said that IN Unity, San
Peto county, Utah, she had o husband and children
living and her Mrs. C0ilard. Shc desired to
20 10 sec her family but, not having tho means TO
do So determined 10 take tho child along Tor company
ana assistance; TINT she had gono first TO Baltimore
and then made her way to Indianapolis, In which
gagged In begging and selling perforated card boards,
with and other devices worked on them, to DO
used rs book markers.
THE ABpucroR.
The woman Is nfty-nvo years Of sgc. She has tho
sncaking look oil "A criminal and very shabby and
nthy In her dress and appearance. She says she
an Engilshwoman. She and her husband joined tho
brothers. wifc's sister, a much handsomer woman
than his WHO, and turned his legal wife adrift.
Shc wantod TO 60 back 10 Utah, ana determined 10
steal Mary Mastcrson to make her beg the money to
pay their expenses on the way.
THE STOLEN CHILD.
Tho little girl Is bright, intelligent child with dark
hair aud Eyes Her mother is dead. she does not
sometimes slapped her when she would not beg. shc
cannot give q connected story OF her wanderinga