Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1896-10-09
WANTS HER BABIES.
nal|oweIl Woman Nearly Frantic Over
Disappearance Of Her Children.
The Father Succeeds In Spiriting All Four Of
Them Away-seareh Being Made.

| There is trouble in one Hallowel
household, more trouble than thos
who are suffering it feel that they cal
long endure Mrs. L. r. Crockett Il
almost frantic over the disappearance
of her four children, whom the fathe
has struggled away, it is said. Mrs
Crockett is the daughter of James w
Carter. one of the selectment in thu
town of Farmingdale, and her hus'
band, who has disappeared along witt
the children, is e. E. Crockett, who was
the candidate of the Democrats and
| Populists for clerk of courts in this
county at the fall election.
From what can be learned all has not
been peaceful Ia that family for long
time, and the climax was reached Mon
day night, when the husband and
father succeeded in getting away all
their children, since which time the
mother has not seen Them or had not
yesterday.
The Journal reporter saw Mrs
Crocketts father, Mr.. James w. Carter
Thursday morning, and from him Sc
cured the following statement:
Il am the grandfather of the children
who have been stolen from their
mother. On Monday night, Oct s.
while my daughter, Mrs. E. E. Crockett.
was calling at my house her husband
took their three little boys,
aged respectively seven, five
and one and one-half years, whom
their mother left in bed at their home
and hurried them away to the house
of John Welch of Farmingdale. 1t APP
pears that he was assisted in this by
one Henry Parks. Crockett then re-
turned TO the house to await the return
OF his wife, hoping to steal the little
girl, now nine years of age, who was
with her mother calling on me in
Farmingdale. When my daughter re-
turned to her home in Hallowell that
evening. she left her daughter at my
place. When she got back without the
child Crockett was there and pretended
to be angry that she remained at her
grandfather's, and said he was coming
after her. He did, called her from bed
t,-:xr l.,
take her home but instead of taking
her home he carried her to John
he three little boys. Meanwhile Mrs.
Crockett, who had supposed her three
little boys to be asleep in their beds
went to the room where she supposed
they were. and, to her horror, found
they were gone. The truth dawned
upon her. for her husband had previ-
ously threatened to break up the
family. and she started to walk to my
house, two and one-half miles away,
in the dead of night
"Wednesday it was found that the
children had been taken to the house
of John WEIGH. Mr. WEIGH admits they
We're brought there, but didn't know
that there was any trouble at the time
the children were there. He says he
saw Henry Parks give $50 to Crockett
This, l suppose, was money which
Parks got for Crockett of a man who
owed Crockett. Welch says that the
little girl after she was brought thete
asked Parks, who was present, to write
to her mamma, and tell her to hurry
and come and get me as soon as she
could. l had feared something of this
sort, and the night the little girl was
taken and before she went to bed, !
talked with her and told her that if
her father ever did take her away, to
tell everybody she could see what her
name was, and ask them to write to
her mother in Hallowell. She will do
this"
Mr.. Garter seemed confident of soon
ascertaining the whereabouts of the
children, whom it is feared the father
has hidden away in some large city.