The Globe-republican., 1895-05-31

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lire Of the Fifth Street station are look
irg for the kidnapper nigh
ard day. He is described a.
being man about sixty. year:
of age, tall and dignifed looking
with silver gray hair and beard anG
dressed entirely in black. AS near a:
can be learned, he first made his ap.
pearance in the neighborhood of First
and Second avenues, below Fourteenth
street, last Monday, when he picked up
little Minnie Halston, aged seven years
OF No. 2O4 East Tenth street, before 9
o'clock in the morning and kept her a
prisoner until night. Minnie's parents,
who are quite we'll to do, were almost
frantic, and when evening came friends
and relatives secured the neighborhood
high and low for the missing girl. About
S:45 o'clock little Minnie walked slowly
along Tenth street from Third aven-
nue. toward her home. She was Sob
bling and wiping away the tears with
the backs of her hands, each of which
held good-sized banana.
L didn't mean to do it." she cried
as her mother, who had been anxiously
watching in front of the house, caught
Minnie in her arms and smothered her
with kisses.
There g-goes the b-bananas," she
sobbed as her mothers embraces
knocked the fruit from the chubby
hands.
Never mind the bananas. Where
have you been" demanded the mother
as she stood Minnie on the sidewalk to
see if she was all there.
III went to take a ride with a man
who said he knew you and papa, and
he-he said we wouldn't be long, and
that we'd be home early, and oh-oh-o oh,
we've been away up in H-H-H-Harlem,
and
The old man, it seems, had stopped
her on First avenue and asked her if
she would like to go for ride, add
ing that he knew her mother, and she
did not object. Minnie consented, and
from her description the old man
must have taken her first to Central
Park and then to High Bridge. Re-
turning, he had left her at the corner
of Tenth and Third avenues after
buying the bananas.
Tuesday morning two little girls,
Mamie Beck and Carrie Wolf, who live
on First avenue, near Seventh street,
disappeared and did not return home
until almost midnight. Carrie is six
years old and Mamie is nine. Both
were last seen Tuesday morning buying
candy at stand in the neighborhood
OF their homes. As in Minnie's case,
an old man had met and enticed them
away by saying he knew their par
ents. He did not take Mamie and Car
RE to Central Park. according to their
story, but escorted them directly to
Harlem, where he bought them ice
cream. He continued the Journey to
the end Of the cable road, and then
took them into the woods on the Har-
lem Rivers bank. When night came
the old man took the girls to one of the
Harlem theaters. Mamie enjoyed the
play, but Carrie, she said, was so tired
that she fell asleep. The old man took
the girls to within a block of their
homes and then, according to Mamie,
ran away. On Wednesday, "Grandpa |
Dick" as the gray-bearded kidnapper
terms himself, found companion on |
Second avenue, near Sixth street, or
within two blocks Of the Fifth Street |
Police Station. This time, after max
ing several unsuccessful attempts to
entice little girls away with him, he
finally persuaded Cora Belzer, aged
eight years, who lives at No. PA Sixth
street, to go as far as Third avenue to
buy some candy.
OF course, little Cora, who is an un-
usually pretty and well-developed
child, did not return home until long
after nightfan, and caused great anx-
iety to her parents, who reported the
case to the precinct police and then
went to Police Headquarters, expect
ing to find their daughter had been
killed or injured and taken to some hos
pital. Cora returned home weeping,
with tale Of adventure with the old
man which included trip to Hoboken
and a ride way out in the country"
she 16O also Oeeu taught 10 OduC0, anu
received all the candy and cake she
could eat, arriving home with big bag
Of peanuts which Grandpa Dick" had
given her just before he sent her home
alone from the corner of Ninth street
and Third avenue, promising to meet
her Thursday morning at the corner Of
Second avenue and Sixth street at
o'clock. Cora was at the appointed place
Of meeting on time, and so were her
father and several other fathers. who
waited around the corner for the old
man to put in an appearance. He evil
dently anticipated some such reception
for he did not keep the appointment
and after waiting for an hour the faith
ers, who would have punished the old
man, went away.
Friday, however, the old mar In
auced Mary Maunch, aged seven years.
Of No. 131 First avenue, and Alice
Wagner, aged nine years, of 31S East
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