Evening journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1888-1932, 1892-02-03
ONE CENT
KIDNAPPED FOR RANSOM.
A Wealthy Mans Son Carried
OFF in Broad Daylight.
$4,000 DEMANDED FOR Els RETURN.

Charles Waterbury. the chiId's Father.
!. Notified That Unless He Pays That
Amount to the Abductors He win
Never Soc His Boy Again.
PounD RDGT, N. X, Feb. 3.--One Of the
boldest cases Of kidnapping ever perpetrated
in this state was committed late yesterday
afternoon, and as a result the residents in
this section are in a state Of the greatest ex-
citement Charles Waterbury is one Of the
wealthiest and most prominent men in this
section He resides in Pound Ridge, but
only half Of his farm lies in this township,
the other lying in Long Ridge, Conn. Mr.
Waterbury claims 10 be a citizen OF New
York state, He has wife and two children
Ward, eight years Of age, and younger
son, four years Of age Ward attended dis
trict school No | in Pound Ridge, Of which
Miss Stead is the teacher, The distance
from the Waterbury homestead 10 the
school house is about three miles.
AS his eight-year-old son, Ward was re-
turning from school with a companion
about his own age, he was stopped in the
road by three men, who seized and carried
him to a carriage close by. When evening
came and the boy did not return his parents
became alarmed, and Mr.. Waterbury went
ont TO seek him, but TO no purpose. When
he got home he found his nephew, Charles
Waterbury, waiting for him with a letter,
which, the nephew said, had been given
him by strange man, with instructions TO
deliver it to Charles r. Waterbury. Mr..
f.A4 1I4
as follows;
$4,000 Ransom Demanded.
l TO Mr.. Charles p Waterbury.
SIR Unless you are prepared TO deliver the
sum Of so.O0o in cash Us a ransom to MS yon viii
never your son again. The money 70 be at
4 MIXERS bridge. in front Of Aiiler's mill, one
mile east Of Bedford court house at midnight
| Tuesday.
There was no signature to the letter. Mr..
Waterbury closely questioned his nephew
| Charles regarding the appearance of the man
who had given him the letter The nephew
then told this story to his nncie
Il was fox hunting near Long Ridge and
was returning home when met a one horse
wagon coming slowly along the road. 1t
was driven by q rough looking man, and two
more mon Of similar appearance were walk
ing a short distance behind the wagon.
=
wrapped up IN blanket lying in the bot
tom Of the wagon / paid little attention
] Is what / saw az the time but / am now
J convinced that the object / saw in the
] wagon WAS little Ward. As the wagon
B passed, one Of the men who was walking
J handed me the letter and requested that
} give IL TO Charles II. Waterbury He saii
that II was OF the utmost Importance that
3 Mr. Waterbury should receive it that night
i did not recognize either Of men who were
Q going when I saw them in the direction o
Stamford, Conn.
The Parents Frantic.
Mr. Waterbury and his family were al
I most driven wild on the receipt Of thi
startling note. What to do they did no
know Finally Mr.. Waterbury drove t,
= Greenwich and notified the authoritie
there kilograms We're sent to New Yorl
asking the aid Of the metropolitan police
y and neghbors and friends were notified o
= the disappearance OF the child.
Millers bridge, where the child is to b
delivered up, is in a secluded locality near
small place called Bedford The bridge
/ built across a small stream and is in tn
:, midst Of a large open lot, and no one cai
3 approach it without being seen from th
; bridge The locality is a particularly ba
= one, and timid people never cross the bridg
g at nightfall it it can be helped.
s. The place has been the hangout for a ba
gang Of young and old toughs and tramp
for years past and many a robbery is n
ported within its domain.
willing 10 Pay for His Child.
! Mr. Waterbury this afternoon went {
y y the bank and drew out $4,000, which he say
\ 4 he VIII pay to the abductors Of his child, an
i make no fuss, as soon as they produce h
little one The detectives and local polio
have been kept busy driving from one plac
to another today hunting through deserte
farmhouses and outhuildings and in SUI
n picious places for some trace Of the boy, bu
y at nightfall they had not succeeded in ins
J. ing any.
u Mr.. Waterbury feels sure that no on
4 took the child for grudge against him bu
4 merely for the sake OF ransom. 1t is sal
q that five or six years ago a man named Jc
Hitchcock worked for Mr.. Waterbury as
farmland, and finally disappeared with
valuable horse belonging 70 his employee
y; Hitchcock was afterward captured, th
y story goes, and was sentenced TO a term
u five years imprisonment in Sing Sing prisol
Z Mr. Waterbury and his friends think ths
= perhaps this man is the leader Of the Xxi,
napes,
Miss johnson May co Mad.
a3 MEMPHIS, Feb. S.-The attorneys for Il