The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1889-09-14
AN AEFRCELNG SGHNH.
A Mother Takes Her Little
Child from Strangers,
THE MOTHER NOT RECOGNIZED
by the. Child Till She Has Been
Scratched aud Bitten-Tho Father
a Resident ofthis City apdthe
Mother of WellsyIlIe, o,

Quite an interesting and exciting
episode occurred in the vicinity Of
Chaplipe and Eighteenth streets yes
terday afternoon, which drew . crowd
and created considerable alarm among
the residents Of that locality for q few
minutes,
About two years ago, David R, Green
and his wife, Edna Green, OF Wellsville,
Ohio, separated, the mother taking one
child, a boy, and the father the other a
girl, then four years old. Green went
from Wellsyille to East Liverpool where
he was employed as a kilnman at
Knowles, Taylor & Knowles pottery:
About nine months ago Green came to
Wheeling and obtained employment in
the Wheeling pottery, For a while, he
boarded with Mrs, Campbell, on the
South Side, but about the frat Of last
May, he and bis little daughter went TO
board with Miss Fink and her brother
who live In one Of the small houses on
Chapline street between Bodley's wagon
factory and Smiths old brewery, Yester'
day morning Mr. reenwentto Wellsytlle
TO attend TO some business matter, and
about the same tune Mrs. Green arrived
in this city,
About 8 o'clock Miss Fink sent the
child out for some milk. Mrs. Green
was somewhere in the vicinity, and
when the child'got to Eighteenth street
she seized her In her arms and carried
her around the corner at the Tack fac.
tory, The little one did not seem Ia
recognize her mother, or II she did, she
was very much ayerse TO accompanying
her, Tor she hit scratched aud screamed
ut a fearful rate, and seemed ready to "a
Into spasms, When they were around
the corner, the mother set the child
down on tile pavement aud com
menCed coaxing her 10 90 away.
When the child became convinced
that her mother was talking TO hel
she seemed somewhat appeased and
finally went with her. Miss Fink and
crowd OF neighhorG came upon the scene
while the mother and child we're talk
ing, aud Miss Fink tried 10 induce the
child to go back home with her, AMI
when the mother still refused, Mis-
Fink insisted that the child should bt
dressed well enough 70 go out oil town
After considerable talk and persuasion
on the part OF the mother The child &C
Comparied her down Eighteenth street
Miss Fink did not make much fuss over
the Child's departure, and seemed only
alarmed shout what the father would
say when he returned.
Miss Fink, in speaking Of the matter
last night, said the fathers idea In hav-
ing the child with him and away from
her mother, was that she might he de-
Gently raised, and intimatea that the
mother was not o At person 10 have
charge Of the little girl. Mrs. Green,
however, las the appearance Of . very
respectable woman, and dresses and acts
like a modest, unassuming lady. She
is about 20 years old, dresses In modest
black, has dark hair aud eyes, and car
ries a silk La Tosca umbrella. She
seemed very much attached tpthe Child
and cried p~iteopsly when the girl re-
fused 10 accompany her, and made no
offer to ohastise her when she scratched
her face and bit her hands. She seemed
oyerjoyed when at last she departed
with her child.