The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-03-20
KIDNAPPING ALLEGED.
stOr, of An Attempt to Get a wealthy
COIOred Girl out of Convent.


CoIored Girl out of Convent.
From the Baltimore Sun, March a.
The trial Of the persons who are ac-
cused of conspiracy in an attempt to abb
duct Mamie Toomer, colored, from ST.
Francis Colored Catholic Asylum and
Academy. corner OF Chase street and For
rest Place, in April. 1892 was begun in the
criminal court yesterday. after a number
of postponements.
Those who are alleged to have conspired
to kidnap the girl are Dunbar Walton
alias Jacob Calhoun, colored. OF Augusta
Ga; his sister. Carrie W. Wilson alias
Carrie w. Horn. a widow with several
children, who lives in Washington: Eve
rett j. Warng, the eolored lawyer of this
city, and Louis T1s Frank. white, hack
driver. who also Hives. here.
The girl whom, according to the indict-
ments. the accused conspired TO kidnap
Is the daughter of Nathan Toomer. a
wealthy colored resident of Augusta, Ca
She was BORN she says. Feb. II, 1879 The
girl is well grown. has clear, light-olive
compile xion, straight black hair, large
black eyes and regular features.
Her mother died in 1891 and the follow
ing year her father remarked, becoming
by his second marriage the stepfather Of
Charles Dixon. II is alleged that Dixon
was the prime mover IN the conspiracy,
and that his object was to enable him TO
get possession of the girl Dixon is mar
ried and has several children. After the
failure Of the alleged attempt at kid
mapping he abandoned divorce proceedings
instituted against his wife and lived with
her again.
On March 20, 1893, the girl was brought
to Baltimore by her father and put In
st. Francis Academy to be educated. 1t
was stated in the evidence that on April
10 following Carrie w. Wilson. under the
assumed name Of Horn, visited the acad-
envy for the ostensibie purpose Of secur-
ing the admission of her neice; that she
represented herself to be from Chatta-
nooga, Tenn, and that on each of two
visits she managed to Slip note into
Mamie TONERS hand.
One of these notes was from Dixon. It
stated that he had spent thousands Of
dollars to find the girls whereabouts and
that he intended to take her away and
marry her The other note was written
by Carrie w. Wilson and stated that a
disguise had been prepared for the girl
and that she would be taken to Canada,
where she would meet Dixon. Mamie
Toomer said she destroyed both of these
notes as she was intimate with Dixon
and did not want the fact to be known.
Dunbar Walton, 1t is alleged was the
agent employed by Dixon to find the girl.
Walton came to Baltimore and secured
the services of Lawyer Waring.
Two days after the visit of Carrie Will
son to the academy suit was instituted
before Justice Gensler whose Office is at
zoos West Baltimore street, for the pur-
pose, it is alleged, Of getting the girl out
side of the institution ostensibly as a
witness. The suit was brought by Frank
to recover an alleged debt of $50 for hack
hire from Walton. who assumed the name
of Jacob Calhoun in this proceeding.
The suspicious of Justice Genser being
aroused. he went to the institution where
the girl was, and the trial of the suit be-
fore him was postponed until commune
cation was had with the girls father The
suit was instituted on Friday. In re-
Spouse to a telegram sent that night Ma
than Toomer arrived in the city on Sun
day and the suit did not come to trial.
on the Tuesday following a writ of ha-
beas corpus was sued out to take the girl
from st. Francis Academy on the ground
that she was illegally detained there. The
writ was made returnable in two weeks,
and when II was heard by Judge Phelps
the girl was remanded to the institution.
These circumstances led to the charge
of conspiracy, the indictment being found
on June 6, 1898.
The charge against the accused is a
misdemeanor, punishable with a fine up
to $1,000 or imprisonment in Jail up to two
years, or both fine and imprisonment
Nathan Toomer is Of large stature and
gray-headed. He is well known in legal
circles here because of the circumstances
leading up to the present trial and of a
suit which he brought against the Pull
man Palace Car Company for the death
Of his wife. which was tried and won by
the company.