The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-11-10

told her story. When the baby was two
months old Miss Kelly went to the Lands
establishment TO see it. It was gone. She
wept and demanded its return. She says
Mrs. Lands would not tell her what had
become of it, except to say that it was
in a comfortable home and would be hap
pier than if the mother had it. Then
Miss Kelly went to the society.
Agents Agnew and Moore were sent out
to investigate They learned, they say,
that a woman in search of a blue-eyed
child of the age of the Kelly infant went
to Mrs. Steiber and told her what was
needed. Mrs. Steiber described this wo-
man yesterday as stout blonde, % years
old, good-looking, well-dressed and speak
ing German. The name Radel was men
Toned by some one, but Mrs. Steiber in
sisted that all she knew of her caller was
hat she said she lived in Springfield ave-
nue., Newark. That thoroughfare is about
zen miles long, and the agents up to last
night had been unable to learn anything
Of Importance by inquiring there.
The blonde woman said to Mrs. Steiber,
according to the midwife:
Il want a baby for adoption. 1t Is for
my married sister. 1t must be about two
months old and have blue eyes. Her hus-
band will arrive here from Germany about
Oct. 10. He is very rich, a merchant and
a millionaire. He was most anxious 20
have a son. My sister cabed to him
that she had become the mother of a fine
child. But it died afterward and she has
not told him. / cannot find the sort of
child l want"
Mrs. Steiber promised to search for one
Three weeks later the blonde woman re-
turned. The Kelly infant had been located
by Mrs Steiber. But it was a girl baby.
The blonde woman said the cable message
to her sisters husband was not definite
enough to make it impossible to deceive
him by having girl baby to show him as
his own child when he arrived. Besides,
time pressed.
Mrs. Steiber consulted Mrs VIII, the
agents say. Mrs. Win went to Mrs Wag-
ner, who told her Mrs. Lands had the
Kelly baby. The baby was carried to
Mrs. Steiber's house and there the blonde
woman saw it. 1t was just the baby she
had been looking for She produced some
infants finery and the cease clothing of
the little one was replaced by the new.
Money was paid, probably $50 or $1O0, the
agents say, and the blonde woman depart
ed with her prize. That is the last known
of the Kelly baby
Mrs. Steiber's daughter said yesterday
that the other women were to have pro-
vided her mother with papers showing
that the childs mother renounced her
claim to the baby, but they had not done
so. The absence of adoption papers in
such case, the prosecutors hold, estab-
fishes a prima facie case of kidnapp
Both Mrs. Steiber and her daughter insist
that they knew of y no reason why the
Kelly baby should not have been adopted.
and assert that they were told such was
the mothers wish.
Mrs. Wagner says that Miss Kelly not
only refused to pay for the support of
the baby, and said she wished to have it
adopted. but she afterward caused the ar
rest of Mrs Wagner. alleging that the
child was unlawfully detained by her. Mrs
VIII, ii appears, was the messenger whom
Mrs Steiber sent to Mrs. lands for the
Kelly baby when the blonde woman made
her final call. She received 81 for this
She asserts that she had no idea that
Miss Kelly objected to having the baby
adopted, and, in fact when the girl went
to see her and inquired what she knew of
the baby's Whereabouts, Mrs. VIII told
all she could about it,
The prisoners We're unable TO obtain bal
yesterday and remained in Yorkvlle prison.
Supt. jenkins said there were many cases
similar to that of Ellen Kelly.