The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-11-16
WANTS THE CHILD
SUCH Is THE BELIEF OF THE
MOTHER AND ATTORNEY.
Citizens and Relatives of Little Myrtle
Hammond Think that Attempt will
be Made by Hammond to Kidnap the
Child which He has Neglected for Nine
Long Years. that He May Secure Money
from the Railroad by Compromising the
Pending suit-Two Men were Seen to
Follow the ChiId-She will be Guarded.

Follow the ChiId-She will be Guarded
over the report that he was about to
lose client He is the attorney in tn
case of Myrtle Hammond VS.. The FRS
co railroad for DANA ges sustained on
the railroad by an accident an account
Of which was published in the Eagle.
To lose a client in an ordinary case
would not give the attorney any I'M
easiness. but he has come into posses
sion of facts which leads him to the
belief that the child was about to be
kidnapped by her worthless and neg
lectful father. for the purpose of Sc
curing the sum offered by the railroad
as a compromise, and then deserving
the child, as he has ever since her birth,
until he learned that the child was
about to receive money from the rail-
road.
He now believes that there has been
a concocted conspiracy entered into by
the father of the child and other par
ties to kidnap the child. The facts
which lead the attorney to apprehend
danger 10 his young client are as fol-
lows:
lno illeu were seen 1TuTSQdy EVEN
ing near the Terrell residence who act
ed in a way to arouse suspicion. Myr-
tie went to the house of Dan Specie on
West Central avenue to play with the
Specie children. Mrs. Specie is a sis
ter of Mr. Terrell, the husband Of little
Myrtle Hammond's mother, and the
children are in the habit of playing to-
gether. The Terrell and Specie homes
are only two short blocks apart and
when little Myrtle went home Miss Lily
Specie accompanied her.
A man was noticed following Miss
Specie and little Myrtle Several per-
sons were on the street at the corner
of Central and Sherman avenue and
the men who were following got into a
buggy with another man Who seemed
TO be waiting for them. The Terrell
residence is just north Of the corner of
these streets.
1t is believed that the men were
watching little Myrtle and that if she
had returned home alone they would
have taken her away. John e, Ham
mond came TO Wichita last spring after
the damage suit had been commenced
and went 30 the school where his daugh-
ter attended, it is believed with the in
tention of taking her away.
When Mrs Terrell was in Indiana,
and during the habeas corpus trial.she
was informed by a relative of Ham
mond's that he Hammond) had told
him that he intended 10 get the child
and then make a compromise with
the railroad company.
1t is said that after the filing of the
suit in the district court here that he
railroad company offered Mrs. Terrell
something to settle the case and she
Af,al- Il
sion of the child he would take less
than the $4,000 and then leave her to
take care of Myrtle as she has done
ever since she was born nine years ago.
\ few months since Hammond called
at the Emerson school house and asked
TO see the child, which was gra nted.
He informed the teacher that he was
a relative but did not state of what
the relationship consisted. He then