Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1885-08-01
KIDNAPPING CHILDREN.
Two Inmates OF the Industrial
School Carried or by Their
Parents.
The Children Recovered After q
Month In Haverhill, Mass.
Special to the Kenhebec Journal. !

HALLowELL, July 81.
Kidnapping occurred in this city. 1t seems
that two children, named Rosie and Annie
Corson, aged respectively l3 and s years,
were placed IN the Hallowell Industrial
School at different times, the older, Rosa by
her mother two years ago, and Annie BY her
father, one year since. Their parents at that
time resided at Togus, and were considered
characters of very bad regulations, having
been in Jail several times for liquor selling
and even worse violations of the law. The
children have passed the time since their ar
rival at the school in a quiet manner, being
to all appearance perfectly contented. The
parents have been to visit them frequently,
but lately, Mrs. Brown, the nation, not con-
sidering them suitable persons to have around
the place, had not allow ed them to visit the
children oftener than once month, and it is
thought that they were very angry in conse-
quence.
On Wednesday, the oath inst, at about
half-past one o'clock. as the children were play
ing in the yard, in front of the school, a
closed wagon containing the father and
mother of the two children drove up to the
yard, and some Of the children reported to
the nation that they had come to take the
children for a drive. The oldest childs
story is as follows:
when the carriage drove up,mamma asked
us if we wanted to go to ride as far as the
gate, and we said we did. When we got
there the carriage kept on. and told mamma
to stop as we wanted to get out. She didn't
make any answer but drove all the faster.
didn't think anything was wrong until then,
and then knew we were being carried off.
didn't want to go, but she made u.s.
The younger one did not seem to care so
much, as she was too young to realize the
matter. The parents drove to Gardiner,
stopping there over night, and the next day
the mother took the children aboard the train
the father taking the carriage buck to Togus,
where he had hired it. The children were
unable to tell whether they stopped in Port
land or Brunswick the next night, but on the
following day they kept on to Haverhill,
Mass, where they have remained until dis
covered.
In Haverhill the daughter of the mother of
the children, and a half sister to the children,
keeps a house of ill fame, and it is here that
the children have been confined. The wo-
mans name is Caffery, and the children went
under that name while in Haverhill. While
in that city they were arrested for disposing
of stolen property, which they were required
to do by their unnatural mother, they not
knowing it to be stolen.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Brown had been making
diligent inquiries and was lead to the belief
that they were in Haverhill and that they
were stopping at the place where they proved
to be. She wrote to the city marshal of
Haverhill in regard to the matter, and he
made inquiries but failed to get any informa-
ton, as the children feared their mother and
answered all questions as they were told.
Mrs. Brown, however, was not satisfied. and
on Wednesday visited Haverhill and called
on the chief of police. He furnished her
with two officers and warrant, and they Wis.,
tied the place, which was situated in one of
the worst localities of that city. Here they
found one of the children at play in the yard,
ence of the people in the house that she did
not dare at first to recognize Mrs. Brown, but
afterwards did so, and appeared glad to see
her Search was then made of the premises
forts were made to secrete her. The chill
dren were taken into custody and carried to
the police station. During their search
large crowd gathered and it required the ut
most exertions of the police to keep them in
anything resembling order. Police protection
was given to the party at the train this morn
ing when they started for home. a large crowd
of roughs being there who were in
sympathy with the parents, and only the
presence of the police prevented a distur-
bance. The children arrived in this city
on the Afternoon train and were Immediately
taken to the school. They seemed very
much pleased to get back again, and the only
fear that the older one bad was that harm
might come to her mother, while the younger
Que seemed perfectly contented.
The parents of the children were allowed
to go at large, they being outside the juris-
dicton of this State. If they should come back
to this State, hawever, they will be arrested.
The object of the deed can only be surmised,
but it is said by those in possession of all the
facts, that taking into consideration the place
where they were found, their surroundings
and their parents character, that they were
destined for life of crime. If this be the
case the deed was a most unnatural one and
deserves the severest condemnation.
From the Associated Press.
HAvERHILL. Mass, July 81.
During the G. A. r. encampment At Port