The Providence news. (Providence [R.I.]) 1891-1906, 1896-09-12
Vanderberger in Search
of Wife and Child.
The woman Fled From Home
With Another Man.
Came 10 This City But No Trace of
Them Can Now BE Obtained.

Frederick Vanderberger, a well to do
mechanic of Schen sctady, n. Y, is in
the city in seach OF his wife and three
year-old daughter Susie.
Mrs. Wander berger left her home last
Tuesday with Lewis Hollis and came to
this city. The pair went TO the residence
of Herbert Johnson, so Stanw God street,
Mrs. Johnson and Hollis being brother
and sister. Hollis and his companion
arrived here Thursday evening and the
former represented to his sister that the
woman was his wife and the child his
step-daughter. The day following their
arrival Hollis beat the little girl three
times in a brutal manner because the girl
would not call him papa. That led Mrs.
Johnson to believe there was something
wrong. She asked her brother about it
and he said that he and the woman ran
away from Schenectady. Mrs. Johnson
ordered her brother 10 leave the house
and as 1t was raining hard she allowed
the woman and child to reamain until
Saturday evening, when she ordered
them to leave also. Mrs. Johnson made
an effort to retain the child, but was un-
able 10 do so.
On Monday Mrs. Johnson wrote to an
other brother, John Hollis, who resides,
in Schenectady, and informed him, of
what had occurred here.
John, who resides in the houss with
the Wander bergers at Schenectady y, showed
the letter to Mr.. Vanderberger and he ar
rived IN the.city yesterday morning. lie
went to the home of the Johnsons i'm
mediately.
From Vanderberger ii appears that
Lewis Hollis went TO board with his
brother John, early last spring, he hav-
ing deserted from the English Army.
While there he was drunk the greater part
OF the time and his brother ordered him
to leave the house. The Vanderbergers
then took him, and cared for him about
three months, or until Monday, Sept. 6,
when he disappeared with Mrs. Wander
berger. Neither Mr.. Vanderberger, Mrs.
Johnson nor the police have been able to
locate the runaway pair, and nothing has
been seen or heard from them since last
iutsoay bOiHlbs. Nutu MI. JOuusOil,
who was coming down town i'm a Broad
street car at 6:45. saw them on the street.
The child was then hardly able to crawl.
Ii is thought that they have slept out OF
doors as neither of them had any money
when Mrs. johnson ordered them out.
Mrs. Vanderberger said she would not
return with her husband If she is caught,
and that she had rather sleep in the
streets with Hollis than to live in pal
ace with her husband.
. Mrs. Johnson declares that the con-
tents of Mrs. Vanderberger' trunk show
ed that her husband has Mt least man
aged 10 keep her and the child in good
clothes and plenty OF them.
Mr.. Vsnderberger says he does not
want his wife, but does want his child,
and will find her IL possible.
Mr.. John Hollis wrote TO his sister
that Mr.. Vanderberger bears an excellent
reputation in Schenectady.
Besides the pretty little child that Rc-
companies the guilty pair, Mrs. Wander
berger leaves three other chldren-Al-
bert, 6;Nellie. 9, and Mabel, II, the lat
ter being somewhat demented, the result
of.scarlot fever. The runaways are each
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