The evening world., 1889-05-18
GIVEN BACK.
Little Alice Graham Freed from
Autocrat Gerry's Grasp.
Justice Duffy Administers Prompt
JuStiCo In the Case.
The Society Had to Abandon Its
Outrageous Claim.
Joy of the Broken Hearted Mother on
Getting Her Child.
An Affecting Scene at the J fterson Market
Court This Morning.
Joy of the Broken-Hearted Mother or
Getting Her Child.
An Affecting Scene at the J Herson Market
Court This Morning.
AN INJUSTICE QUICKLY RlcATEp.

AN INJUSTICE QUICKLY RlcHTED.
Little Alice Graham 10 back In the arms
OF her loving mother!
MIR. Gerry has been taught another les
son. An outraged public sentiment sets n
limit even TO the Atrocities Of an AutOcrat.
Fortunate Il wns that the grip of MIR.
Gerry's Society had not been securely fast
ened upon this poor child at least. There
was too much Of human sympathy and CON-
mon sense about Judge Patrick Gavan
Duffy. He refused 30 irrevocably tear
little Alice from her anectionaIs mother
and commit her beyond all recall 10 Mr..
Gerry's Institution.
As for Agent BurIando, he is n brute. He
Is n blRsphemer. MIR. derry, another word
to you. How long do you propose TO en-
pioy n man Of this stamp rs an agent for
a Society for she P~revention Of Cruelty to
Childrenf
But little Alice Graham, Mt any rate, In
safe, and the knowledge OF n good deed
quickly done IL ample recompense to "Ths
Evening World."-tED.
Dictator Gerry, of the Society for the Pro.
motion of Localized kidnapping, received Q
black eye In Jefferson Market Police Court
this morning that must have made his head
swim.
1t was in the case of pretty little Alice Ora
ham, who was brutally torn from her home
at 272 West Twenty-ffth street last Wednes-
day afternoon by Agent Burlando, one of
Gerry's agents, and has ever since been kept
away from her almost heart broken mother.
Justice Duffy gave Alice back to her mother
as soon as he heard the case. and Mr.. Gerry
was seen Just about that time leaving the
Courthouse by the back door.
The examination in this case, which has
aroused such a storm of public indignation
against the methods of Mr.. Gerry's Society,
had been set down for 0 O'Clock.
TIKI MoTHER IN COURT.
Mrs. Graham was in court long before that
hour, with about a dozen of her friends. in
GLIDING motherly old Mrs. Skinner, Mrs.
Benton Russ, Mrs. Graham's stepmother,
who had com on from Washington; Mrs.
| Dupont and Miss Grace Dupont, intimate
The unfortunate mother looked pale and
She had borne up brayely under
the strain of the past three days, but ,yester-
day while visiting the house of Mrs. Dupont
she was taken Ill. and for O time was COM
| pletely prostrated.
She was hardly able to zone to Court this
morning. but a hungry. yearn,ng look in her
any ordeal for the sake Of getting back her
child again.
LITTLE ALICE's APPEARANCE
Alice was brought into tho Judges private
room by the Society's officers about 9 O'clock.
Mrs. Graham requested to DO permitted to
see her, and appealed to Agent Burlando.
Yes, you can talk to her If you promise
| not to have no funny business with her"
was the reply Of the Society's agent.
MORE BRUTALITY.
Asst poor woman reached the door he
Now, mind you don't have no crying
business. Everything's got to be on the dead
level, see"
AN AFFECTING MEETING.
Alice was brought from another room.
lShe had evidently been crying. and when
the door was opened and she saw her mother
she rushed into her arms with a cry Of
delight.
They were left together about ten minutes,
when the officer went in and said Alice must
go back into the other room. The poor child
wept bitterly as she was being taken away,
and called out ~piteously:
WANTED TO STA WITH MAMMA.
~ want to stay. with my mamma. Oh,
please lot me go back to mamma, Don't a K
me away again"
eyes Of many of the spectators, and even one
OF the old court officers who had been hard
ened by years of experience to all sorts OF
narrowing scenes rubbed his nose with sus-
piciGus emphasis.
It's a shame" he 5aid, Ito treat that
poor young woman In that way. They ought
never TO have taken her child away. Any one
with half an eve could see that she would do
more for that child than any one in the
world"
49,, MRS. GRAHAM MUCH AFFECTED.
Mrs. Graham WAS also much affected by the
interview, although she vas quiet and self
possessed every cry of the child as she was
being taken away made her tremble from
head to foot.
When they took Alice away, " she said to
the reporter, she had on her old clothes.
underclothing this morning and another
hood. and wrapped her other clothes up in
the bundle which you saw she carried. l
Suppos that is 10 make 1t appear that she
wasn't woll clothed.
WOULDN'T co WITH HER FATHER.
''Alice told me that they brought her father
10 see her while she was at the Society's
office, aud asked her II she didn't AM to 20