The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-01-04
MAGGIE WELDON FOUND
Living With Her Godmother in
GreenVille Visit to Her
S%tepmother.

Maggie Weldon, who was reported missing
by her stepnlother, Mrs. Catharine Weldon
of No. 465 Pavonia avenue, has been found
through the efforts of THE JERSEY Cry
NEWS, which told the story of her supposed
disappearance in its issue of Tuesday.
Maggie is living with her godmother, Mrs.
William Mindermann, at her home No. 1O5
Danforth avenue Greenville. Mrs. Minder-
mann was seen yesterday by a News re-
porter. She said
MRS. MINDERMANN'S STORY.
maggie has not been missing at all. She
has been where she has always been-with
me, Maggie's mother was sickly from the
time Maggie was born. | am the child's
godmother, and when she was a few weeks
old her mother had to be taken to the hospl-
tai. l took care of her. Mrs. Weldon was
in the hospital for eight months, and during
that time / took care of the child. Mr..
Weldon never called, either to see the
mother or the baby. When Mrs, Weldon
left the hospital she called to see Maggie.
Soon after this she died. Before dying she
said to me:-.lMaggie, my child was named
for you, | can die in peace if know that
you viii take care of Maggie. l can't bear
to think of her being brought up by q step
mother That was fourteen years ago, and
Maggie has been with me ever since. At
first her father used to call on her occasion
ally and kept her supplied with clothes. He
married a cook four or five years ago, and
after his marriage his visits to his
daughter became less frequent. His
second wife wanted to get hold
of Maggie, but she said she would
rather stay with auntie - she calls me
auntie. The last time her father called on
her was three years g this New Years
Day. Then he took her out walking and
stole a cross and chain that | had given her
from around her neck. / didn't known he
was dead until / read the article about
Maggies disappearance in your paper. l
don't van to give Maggie up, and if there
is anything coming to her from her father l
shall fight for it for her. | wish you would
correct the statement that Mrs. Weldon
made that I was separated from my hus-
band. There is not a word of truth in it. l
| lave been married for five years and lave
never left my husband for a day.
WANT TO EDUCATE MAGGIE.
Mrs. Weldon was next seen by the re-
| porter. When asked what foundation she
had for saying that Mrs. Mindermann and
her husband were separated, she said the
children told Mr.. Weldon. 1t seems that a
while before his death, Weldon was work
| ing in Bayonne near where the Minder-
MAINS used to live. Remembering that he
had a daughter living there, he asked some
I ScQOOi culltIf0H II bHey kueW MaSSle WEI
| don. They told him they did, and added
| that Mr.. and Mrs. M~indermann, with whom
| she lived, had separated. The rest of Mrs.
| Weldon's story was told in Tuesdays NEWS
She said that there is very little, if any,
money coming to Maggie, but what
there is, she will put in the bank
She claims that Mrs. Mindermann has not
had Maggie properly educated, and that she
has grown up a know nothing. 81 would
like to take her for my husbands sake" she
continued, land give her an education"
Mrs. Weldon lived out before she married.
and she told the reporter that if Maggie will
not live with her she will probably go into
service again.
Maggie, with Mrs. Mindermann, called on
her ~stepmother yesterday afternoon, but did
not stay long.