The San Francisco call., 1898-03-04
Peculiar Story of a Little Waif Abandoned in the City
 of Sacramento.
Left at House by Man Claiming to Be Her Father, Who Said He Would
 Soon Return for Her.

There is a mystery surrounding 'ne spiriting away of little Alice Loy rom this city that calls for thorough ll- vestigation by the police or thls cl'S and Sacramento - The child was brought hele lloiii Portland several months ago oy woman named Clark, who cldlileu tO have adopted her with her hloIhei consent. The Clark woman has peell ., nrorninent member of Httie pdIiC, calling itself Gods Regular Arlny, "1N' having it's headquarters Ill lle Da'o nent at the northwest corner oL iAo" ard and Fourth streets. Ios+ Tuesday night one or the ol- fcars of the army" reported to 'iis ,o1ica that the child had dlsappeareo and ba believed she had been ao- d,,o+ad bv relative of the girl "ho bod visited the headquarters ostel- eibIv +o see her. Subsequently It Was Iao,nad that the two had gone to Sac- ,.onAn+o and a telegram was sent 'o the Chief of Police of that city to ap- prehend them.
 Nothing was heard of the mother ,,n+iI last evening, when The Call re ceived the following dispatch rom IT., LIS ies Sacramento correspondent. Whlcn ttoo Moo fnIlv confirmed by an lnVesllSdlAoli made later here:
 SACRAMENTO, March 3.-This onr nornr ipS at an early hour Mrs. John Swll1es of l4 Eleventh street, thls clly, oJ tb Q 10 q knock at her door, ana 1ouIu IId or 'trv hI, 11orcb a man of perhaps 80 years anu rt pS PiGi side girl of ' or thereabouts me man was strong and sturdy; tne ilirI GIiII9 er frafl. nervous and frightened. 9;po1IiraS with a Swedish accent. the man Ihqulli l iT7 Tu fnr family named Folsom. when III IT. formed that no such person nNeu Ill d IriJ neighborhood he expressed surprise A-'U 1e4gteq athn SL of the house was about to re- +;ra when he asked if she would not per init him to leave the chilo w wltn tb ne1 narties he was looking for. Readily ana unsus- unsi nactingly Mrs. SWitZer consenteq. @ 0Iie look the child into her home ana the man man departed. Since that HOuA o440 W
 0fficer HeaIy of the Society for the Pre- vention of Cruelty to Children was sent for and this evening took the poor nttIe de vaif 10 his home. Upon questioning her he obtained the following facts;
 Her name is Alice Loy, and her nome Iand. One day. as the child's story goes, a woman by the name of Ciark Vls. tbc ited the home of Alice and obtained the consent of her mother to take the chlIu fo San Francisco. Alice soon found her- self in the. streets of that t clty' pi1y1rgs bans which styled itself Gods Regular Al For several weeks Alice was marched out in the streets late at night. and was compeIled to wait upon the Clark woman and her companions during the day. Fol some reason, she said, the woman Iadad le,, II, the hands of the man who deserted hei to-day.
 to last night and occupied quarters in lodging house on K street. The man gave the name of Wise and claimed the girl was his daughter. The landlady re, ceived the fee for the nights lodging ana gave the matter no further thought Officer Healy is determined to probe the matter to the bottom. in view of the child's shocking statements of misconduct on the part of Wise and Mrs. Clark and Wises inhuman treatment of the girl. The officer has an accurate descrip- ton of the man and expects to effect his arrest without any trouble.
 Upon receipt of this dispatch a Call reporter endeavored to locate Mrs. Clark, but was informed by an officer at the army headquarters that the wo- man had left the city Monday night for Sacramento. This was twenty four hours before Wise took the child away, and confirms her statement that the woman left here before she was taken away.
 The officer further stated that word had been received from Mrs. Clark to the effect that she had seen Wise i'll
 
 girl. The woman announced that she would return to this city this morning .. at Il o'clock
 Wise, the officer said, was not mem Der of the army, but attended the meetings occasionally and was a friend of Mrs. Clark. Nothing was known about him beyond this. The woman and child did not live at the barracks, but had rooms at 513 Howard street. and it was there Wise had obtained possession of little Alice.
 Beyond the fact that Wise was sup posed to have taken her to Sacramento. .- the officer could not give any informa- tion regarding the abduction, nor could he account for both Wise and Mrs Clark journeying to the same place and abandoning the girl. That the couple have been in communication since their arrival in Sacramento clearly indicates that the woman was in the plot to get rid of her charge. The officer gave the girls age as eight years and confirmed the statement that she had been brought from Portland by the Clark ~ woman
 From friend of Mrs. Clark it was learned that the woman had had some trouble with her husband, and this friends reluctance to give anyinforma- tion regarding the whereabouts of Mrs. Clark until assured that the re- porter was not an emissary of the hus- band indicated that Mrs. Clark is not anxious to meet the man whose name she bears.
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