Wichita eagle., 1889-03-01

close resemblance between her and the
missing Annie Redmond.
''That is Annie Redmond as sure as I'm
alive,n said Mrs. Harper to her companion.
Then she asked the girl for her name.
Flora Della Gurley," was the frank re-
ply.
But have you no other name~
,,Oh, yes; my other name is Annie Red
mond.n
The ladies turned away to consultation
with the matron, Mrs. Moody, and there
Was long investigation and much ques-
tioning of the child, which finally convinced
all that the little girl was the missing
daughter of the blacksmith
The police were communicated with, and
Annie told her story in all its details to
Lieutenant Gerald Stark, who obtained a
complete description of the Gurleys and
the location of their former abode. he
cautioned secrecy, and, at Mrs. Moody's re-
quest, the two ladies remained at the home
until late on Thursday night 1t was even
deemed advisable not to carry the tidings
TO Mrs. Redmond on that night.
The police Immediately secured warrants
and went to Englewood only to ind that
Gurley and his wife had left their home q
few days after the trouble about Annie.
They had gone first to live with Guriey's
father at Seventy-frst and Throop Streets
but, after staying there four days, came to
the city and were said to be living at some
place on Madison street.
1t was Josie Gurley who kidnapped Annie
Redmond, although at the time of the alb
duction it was said that the woman was one
entirely unlike Mrs. Gurley in appearance
There were number OF arrests made at
the time on the description given, but, Of
course, all search on the clew offered did
not avail
After the child had been restored to her
parents, her father having in the mean
time been brought home from the asylum
at Kankakee, she told, in her own childish
way, the story of how she was taken:
81 was playing on the prairie out there
with Otto Miller" she began-"but you
mustn't say he was my beau-when WON.
an with black hair came to me and said |:
Come with me and / will give you lots Of
pennies and candy I went with her and
Otto ran away crying. The woman was
Josie Gurley, and when she took me to her
home on State street she told me about her
little girl Josie who had died, and said she
was going to keep me in her place, and that
/ must tell everybody that my name was
Flora Della Gurley I cried to go home, but
she wouldn't let me, and then the man
came. His name was Harvey. They said I
must call them papa and mamma, but said
had my own papa and mamma. Soon we
moved over to School street, and there they
both began to whip me, and if l didn't say
my name was Flora Della Gurley they
would lick me. They did it with a CATO
nine-tails that they made Of a stick and
pieces of harness. Then we moved again
to Kensington, and they used to make me
90 after beer and whip me and make me
wash the dishes and scrub the floor and
every thing. Sometimes l would run away
and hide And they would put boys
clothes ON me, too"
At the remembrance of which indignity
Annie grew very sad. She then told of a
brief residence the Gurleys made on Sixty
third street.
''They were going away, way out of town
from there" she said, ''for / know they
sent big trunk away. But the landlord
man found it out, and wouldn't let them go,
so he wouldn't"
Annie could not give in correct detail or
connection accounts of the many removals
of the Gurleys, but she gave very clear &C
counts of their last home on Throop street.
81 know about Throop street, because
there is where they tied me down in the
cellar. And they used to make me go for
beer there, and send me TO drug store for
brandy. And they made me tell every
body that my name was Flora Della Gurley,
and told me whenever / saw a policeman to
run into the house. But l knew a police
man who used to come to my papa's shop,
and liked him and wanted to see him, and
then would get whipped. They didn't Ike
me at ALL"
wasn't anybody kind to yous" asked
the reporter.
"Oh, yes; sometimes Grandpa Parsons
was He lived with US and he would hide
me when they wanted to whip me, and he
let me sit on his knee. And l know Grand
ma Parsons, too, and her first name was
Martha. But they both had some other
names. 1 had to call them my grandpa and
my grandma or l would get licked. l had
to stay there, too, until the Humane man
took me and gave me back to my papa"
Then she said to her father:
But I'll go with you, papa, and I can
show you all the people and all the places"
Eyes, and Wen find them, too, my child"
said the father
How Annie came to be taken from the
Gurleys' and placed in the Home for the
Friendless is told by Officer Mitchell, of the
Humane Society. He says:
at was on Friday, January IS, that I re-
ceived q telephone message from Engle-
wood to hurry down there and investigate a
case of cruelty to child. The person who
telephoned was Mrs. Lena W. Wilkie, the
owner of the house on Throop street, be-
tween Seventeen and Seventy first, where
the Gurleys lived. Mrs. Wilkie said that
Harvey IT, Gurley had tied his little girl in
the basement, after whipping her. and had
left her there for hours. l got out war
rant at Justice Underwood's court, State
and Twenty-ninth streets, that evening for
Gurley's arrest on the charge Of cruelty to
children, under the State law. gave the
warrant to Underwood to take with him
and give to Officer Hogan, of the Engle-
wood force for service. Hogan arrested
Gurley early the nextmorning and brought
him before Justice Underwood for trial
The child was not brought into court Mrs.
" like testified that she had heard the
child cries, and opening the cellar door
found the poor little thing with two ropes
across her back and shoulders and big
ladder across her body. Mrs Wlkie called
to her assistance neighbor, Mrs Moore,
and together they descended into the
cellar Mrs. Moore cut the child's bonds
and sent her upstairs. Gurley pleaded
that his wife was III and near confinement,
and that it would be a terrible thing for
him TO be sent 20 the county jaA Justice
Underwood took this circumstance into con-
sideration and fined him fifty dollars and
suspended execution.
Hogan and myself got into buggy and
irove over TO the house to get the child Un-
1erwood had gwen US the custody OF It. I