The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-03-23
STOLEN FROM HER MOTHER.
Thirteen-year-old Ella Holmes In
weighed Into House of III Fame.

nlrteen-year-old Ella holmes In
weighed Into 8 House of III Fame.
A case Of kipnaping of little girl for
immoral purposes came to light yesterday.
which, If proved, will probably land the
abductors in the coal mines for life.
Ella Holmes. a bright faced 1S-year-old
mother. Mrs. Nina Holmes on Second
street between Montgomery and West
Broad. Nearby with her parents lived
Alice White. the depraved, pretty-face
young creature who was a
pal OF Perkins, the express
robber now in the mines. She man
aged to ingratiate herself into Ella Holmes
friendship without the knowledge of the
little ones mother, and Friday afternoon,
March IL. while Mrs Holmes was away
from the house, the White girl went there
and asked Ella to take note for her to
Stella Mosely at No. % Farm street, prom
Using her 81 when she came back
Not thinking there was anything wrong
In carrying the message, and anxious to
earn the money, Ella took the note. When
she delivered It she was taken upstairs by
the Mosely woman and locked in a room.
Returning to her home Mrs Holmes
missed her young daughter, but supposed
she had gone to visit relatives. When night
came and the child did not return the
mother started to look for
her. She went to where she
thought her daughter ought to be, and was
surprised at being told that she WASN'T there.
The mother passed a wretohed night and
Saturday little girl companion OF Elias
told her that Alice White had sent her with
message to Yamacraw. Mrs. Holmes saw
the White girl and begged TO know what
had become of her daughter. The girl
denied knowing anything about her and the
mother went to Yamacraw to look for
her.
She visited every house Of questionable
character, among them Stella Moseley's,
but met with no success. Her friends
Joined in the search and every place in the
city where it was thought possible the miss
ing girl might be was searched.
Yesterday Mrs. Holmes went to Detective
Wetherhorn and asked his aid. The officer
tookhold Of the case at once. The first person
he arrested was Alice White, but she
on the, same nonchaIant air
as when she was arrested as an
accomplish In the express robbery. Stella
Mosely was next arrested. She admitted to
Detective Wetherhorn that the little girl
had come to her house with a note from
Alice White and remained there few
days, but had left.
ooIl IEouueTShSCt WHO nhS Deen CudTReQ
more than once with being procuress, was
known to be an intimate friend OF the
Mosely girl, and Detective Wetherhorn
gathered her in. Pearl was indignant at
being arrested, and denied all knowledge of
the girl or her whereabouts
Annie Martin, who lives with Stella
MoselY. was next brought in. She told the
whole story of the kidnapping at once.
THE little girl" said Annie, came to
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from Alice White and Stella took her up
stairs and locked her in a room. The next
day Alice came to the house and
saw the girl and asked Stella
to keep her for few days until arrange
ments could be made TO send her off. Mon
day, Pearl PrendergaSt came and took the
girl out and had her hair cut short. Then
she came back and dressed her in an old
dress belonging to Stella, after which she
carried her off. Since then 1 never saw
her and don't know where she is"
Mrs. Holmes was present while Annie
Martin was telling her story. and at its
conclusion she burst into tears, and point
ing her finger at Alice White said: There's
the cruel wretch who sent my little one of.
o, give me back my child"
Alice turned her head in a scornful way
and laughed in the face Of the agonized
mother.
The women wouldn't tell anything about
the whereabouts of the child, and Justice
Naughtiu committed Alice White, Pearl
Prendergast and Stella Mosely TO jail on a
charge Of inveigling child for improper
purposes.
The White girls father came 10 Justice
Naughtin's Office to talk with his hayward
and dissolute daughter, but she
laughed at his apparent distress
over her situation, and told him she was
all right. AS he saw his daughter carried
to jail his eyes suffused with tears and he
walked away trying to choke his feelings
Detective Wetherhorn is satisfied that
there is a man In the case, and that Ella
Holmes was sent out Of the city by Pearl
Prendergast. He expects to get track of
the girls whereabouts to-day.
The last legislature made the crime Of in
weighing young girls for improper purposes
punishable by either twenty years or life
imprisonment in the discretion of the pre-
siding judge.