New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1878-09-10
d DOUBLE SORROW.
DROWNING OF KATIE BYRON AND THE ABDUCTION
OF HER YOUNG DAUGHTER.

DROWNING OF KATIE BYRON AND THE ABDUCTION
OF HER YOUNG DAUGHTER.
From New Haven yesterday the report came
that Katie Byron, one OF the Byron sisters singers
playing I'm Mers Theatre in that city. had been acc-
deutally drowned at sayin's Rock. The young woman
had left party Of her companions in restaurant near
by saving that the air would do her good and that
she would take stroll along the shore On the shelving
rock named in the dispatch she Sat down to watch the
ebbng tide aud either fell in attempting 10 rise, or slid
down into the water Her body recovered and sent
on to Baltimore where the family homestead is.
Tie drowned woman was known In the city a singer
and variety to frequenters Of the secondcass
saloons in the Bowery In the National Garden, No lOi
Bowery she played her last engagement here. Whom
very young she was married 10 Perot grayhaired
man by whom she had child who called by the
net name Birdie" and who grew up into bright little
creature IL is said the child occasionally sang and
danced on the stage with her mother When her mother
procured q divorce account OF brutal treat
ment Of her husband, the child was given into
her custody by the court, and was ieaously
guarded day and night That this precautoD
was not superuOus proved by two or three neect
ual attempts by the father to obtain possession Of
the girl He was beard Of proving about the neighbour
hood for some time bat eventually was lost sight Of
The mother who Is a not over twenty-five years
of age married again When three weeks ago she went
TO NeWHaven she gave her child into the charge Of her
slater. Miss Josephine COonan.
Birdie Porot play the sidewalk I'm front OF
her homo No 40 DiyisIont last night shortly before
o'clock when two men and spoke 60 her. One
an old man with long gray beard and bald head; the
other was younger, with dark complexion and nous
taehe and a slOuch hat pulled low tho head The
men spoke kindly the child and her TO go with
them Neighbors from their sbOp-dOOrs the oldest
OF the two pcttng and Offering Birdie money aud he I'd
him whispering, " Come, Birdie, come" But the child
rasped the handle of the dOorbel and drew back from
the men. The girl pot in the neighborhOOd and
was known 10 everybody; yet when she was taken mp
by the at last, ana carried screaming ana
struggling away the neghbOrs looked on without stir
ring the BOwery the three were lost IN the crowd
aud disappeared .
description Of the old man the chds father and In the
younger constant companion OF his. Almost Crazed
0y the fresh trouble added 20 the mornings she
rushed % the Central Office and laid the before In
spectOF McDcrmot, who sent out general alarm and
promised assist her In the search for the child by
every means IN the power Of the police Miss CoOnan
feared that the father had taken bis child 70
Jersey City BROOKLYN, where he formerly
lived, with the purpose OF making the girl
earn a living for him by singing. Her friends
were reused by the report OF the abduction and soon
gathered at her home IN DiYsion-st., Offering aid
and consolation The city thoroughly secured by
sorrow, It s feared will kill the aged mother OF the
drowned singer who 10 at Baltimore hopeless invalid
The PerOt Is described as wedre6sed, tau, with
black silk hat and long gray beard. He worked at one
time the Brooklyn Bridge. Birdie, the child, Is small
for her years with long dark-brown hair aud
dressed when taken away a dark gray dress, trimmed
wit biaok red striped stockings,