The Neihart herald. [volume] (Neihart, Mont.) 1890-1901, 1898-09-10
GERALD LAPINER.

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been found. Then the baby told, as
well as she could, the story Of her
sufferings and ill-treatment. She said
she had been beaten and half starved
by her captor, and when taken to the
home was told to say her name was
Jane Gurley. But the fiend who com
mitted the crime was not discovered
and has remained unpublished. This
return closed the incident in the public
mind, but a terrible sequel was to
come.
Redmond went from bad to worse.
DR.. Wilder treated him until after the
inquest of lunacy. After that the man
refused to accept of his ministrations.
The matter al On without notable in
cident until Jan. 10, 1892. That day
Redmond went to a drug store near
enth street and telephoned to Dr..
Wilder, asking him to make a call at
J.. A. MacPherson's clearinghouse,
2719 South Park venue. The doctor
was bright and unusually happy that
day. He went to make the call, ac-
companied by his coachman. fIe
walked up the front steps of the house
and was shot down and instantly
killed by Redmond.
The slayer jumped into the cutter
and drove at furious speed to the
Twenty-secopd street station, where
he had been locked up before and
where all the pitiful details Of his
mental woes had been worked out. He
was duly indicted, charged with muir
der, and in spite of expert testimony
declaring him insane he was convicted
and sentenced to life Imprisonment.
The case was appealed and the father
eventually obtained his liberty. The
greed for gold, no other motive being
discovered, cost the life of a good man,
the destruction of a happy family and
placed the brand of Cain on a fathers
brow.
Next in order is the famous Baby"
Beale case of Kansas City, Mo. This
was a coolly planned, nervily executed
and successful attempt to eXtort
money from the little ones parents.
Maj. Beale paid $1,000 in cash to the
man who engineered the case, received
his boy back again and refused to
prosecute the criminals, although they
were traced to their lair and held 20
able for it's deviation from the accept
ed rules governing kidnapping. The
officers found their game, they made
the arrests, but were baked of their
revenge by the contract made by the
father hat immunity would follow
voluntary restoration.
AS in all the other cases the kidnap-
per was a woman. She was a former
nurse in the household, dismissed for
a fault. She was a handsome, black
haired, black-eyed woman, splendidly
formed. and with no end of pluck and
resource. AS is always the case, she
had confederates who were men. But
she managed the affair up to the time
of the negotiations for the restoration.
1t was about dinner time one Novem-
Der evening in 1891 that this woman
went to the Beale residence on the cor
ner of Wabash avenue and Indepe1-
dence boulevard. Ostensibly she
sought reinstatement or a letter of rec
ommendation.
Last of all comes the case of little
Gerald Lapiner, boldly enticed away
from a crowded street in the daytime.
Not one word has been heard of him
since, although numerous traces have
been run to a blind end. His case is so
similar to that of Annie Redmond up
to date as to forcibly recall the latter.
Where is he? Who stole him and for
what purpose? What will be the ulti-
mate effect on the minds and bodies Of
the sorrowing parents? What motive
is there for the crime?
All these questions must wait for an
swer. No enemies have sworn en-
geance against the family. No domes-
tic troubles have come to mar the har-
mony. The father is not wealthy, as
Banker Beale is, but so far the same
old reason-money-is the underlying
motive, unless the boy was taken as
the result of a freak on the part Of
some demented person.