The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-04-16
ARRESTED FOR KIDNAPPING.
MRS. T<N HoRN's PHILANTHROPY
GETS BER INTO TROUBLE


She sud Her Cousin, SIR Lloyd, Arre-trs
Here for ste.'ina Chnd They Took for
Adoption from Chicago In,titution.
Mrs. Della Van Horn. wife Of J. J. Van Horn.
q member OF the Calvary Baptist Church. on
West Flfty-seventh street. near Seventh ave-
nue. OF which the Rev. DR.. Macarthur 10 the
pastor. and her cousin. Frederick Hughes
LLOYD, an electrical engineer. are locked up In
the Jefferson Market prison awaiting exam
ination on q charge Of kidnapping preferred
by the Gerry society. Behind the arrest Of
Mrs. Van Horn and Lloyd is q long story OF
family troubles. to patch up which both DIR.
Macarthur and his assistant the Rev. Mr..
Morse. made several unsuccessful efforts The
first inklinR the Gerry society had that Mrs.
Van Horn was In possession OF ohildto which
she had no legal right was about month ago.
when Superintendent Jenkins received letter
from Mr.. Van Horn. who 10 an undertaken at
800 Eighth avenue in which tho latter said
that q woman named Della Hughes. which
was Mrs Van Horns maiden name, was living
at 139 West Fifteenth street with q man
named Lloyd. and that the couple had with
them q six-year-old boy. who was being
brought up under evil influences. Just what
the evil Influences were was not stated. and no
attention was paid to the letter until Friday
last, when the society was asked by the Illinois
Humane Society TO look out for man, and q
woman named Lloyd. who had kidnapped six
year-old Charles Kunts from Chicago
The instances Of the kidnapping were
as follows; In November 1893 Lloyd and Mrs.
Van Horn called at the Half Orphan Asylum
In Chicago and announced that they desired
to adopt little girl. While they were en-
gagged in conversation with the officers Of the
Of the asylum. came in the room. The woman
took a sudden fancy to the boy and said she
would IKE to adopt him. There was some
hesitation .eSu. permitting the couple to take
W, s"A 10 vas s.ppo.eu " vo euos
from consumption. but It was mail, agreed to
ofici.ls Q, the I'm Institution were to make In
the after rs p. .s,isa.s With tS the boy and
Oh. snthor,,is. fonnd th.t tbs ,ounI. w.rs ali
they represented themselves to be It was un-
%sn.n During t the 70 Lloyd and
Yor. that they Sat CONS % Chicago 70 see the
At the end Of the first month neithor the man,
the managers Of the Institution. nndina that
the manner n which 1, the couple had come Into
n ne child was not strictly IN s HS
them. II was unsuocessfuL
Then the Illinois Humane Society took up
ken. There they found that the couple and
the child had boarded with MIRA Hahn at 22o
howsyer. before tho ofiesrs Of III the Huma name
Society got there. From HosoAen Lloyd and
address % hs and trasoa to
West ssysntssnth street 70 the Oriental Hotel.
Zion e. the Gerry society. And they tished Mr.
their minds that the child referred 70 by him
was the same one that had been taken from
chicago Le an and Agents Gormlsy And Agnsw we're
to 39 East Ninetesnth street, where she had
established herself as q praetisinR physician.
Neither Lloyd NOR the child was found In the
mouse but MRS van Horn explained that they
he name d Ii. street but told The Haer: how
70 get there. and acting under her directions,
boy was brought to the sosiety's rooms in this
city, yesterday st q LIoSd and Mrs; var Horn were
during the exam nation he, Was strange 81:
woman. ssid she was 20 yssrss old; Shedenled
y s.o me aiGh,nppoa tne eniai one nad TAKEN
ron the shieag0 .:Sipm Nth TIE inii con;
for her name the woman said that It was Della
hughes. and thn t she was cousin Of her fell
tise medicine. she said. as she had been grndu-
atsd as trained nurse at the New York Hos:
pital some yesrs ago; AMI she had also studied
ct 1.-THE woman's Hospital and Bellevue Hospital,
Lloyd and the woman were held In $4,000 bail
each Tor examination on Tuesday aftsrnooH;
When seen In the Jefferson Market prison by
sreporter Mrs. Van Horn refused to talk about
herself At all hut said that she was perfectly
not kidnapped she said. When we took him
nothing was said about returning him at the
expiration OF month; The asylum people said
u at least three months- II az the end OF that
time We DECIDED that We didn't want IL We
could return It. H. however. We decided TO
keep It We were to have that privilege. and
nothing was said about any further negotia,;
took the child was bsea1se / wanted il Tor
companionship. am trained nurse. and al:
though u was ny intention 20 adopt gil. l