The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-10
LIZZIE CASSlDY'S ABSENCE.
STILL No 7RtCE or THE MISSING
BROOkLYN CTTLD.

She wandered on Once Before, and Her
Parents Hope Nothing Worse Has Hnp-
pensd Ia Her This Tims-Could Easily
Have Gone to tho River aud Fallen In.
Little Lizzie Cassidy may be drowned or she
may lie kidnapped or she may be Just lost but.
whatever has become OF this nineteen months
old BROOKLYN girl. she has disappeared mys.
tcriously. Detectives and policemen and
neiRhbors Of the CRssidys have hunted high
and low along the river front III 'lrishtown,
between the navy yard and the bridge. and
they haven't found ono Uerson In that thickly
settled tenement district, inhabited by Irish.
Italians and Poles who has seen or heard Of
q strayed. toddng child. They have searched
cellars, empty tencments. lumber yards and
even sewers they have gone about everywhere
that child could 20 In that neighborhood
they have questioned italian fruit vendors.
Irish saloon keepers and marines from the
navy yard. No one has seen Lizzie Cassidy
q plain faced. blue eyed. black haired. broad
nosed child, with high forehead and scars IN
her shoulder and forehead. who wore faded
pink calico dress. white piuue cont. black
laced shoes and black stockings.
The Cassidys moved into tho basement Of
the house at 16D York street, n few doors from
the Bridge street elcvatsl.railrond station. "A
fortnight ago. There were six OF them before
Lizzie disappeared Friday morninE-Thomas
Cassidy, born and bred in the neighhorhOod
q cracker baker by trade now a. work In Ar.
buckles factory at the foot Of Pearl street his
wife. Elizabeth and the -FOUR children. Kate
Georae. John and Lizzie. Kate the eldest 10
years old. wns looking after Lizzie Friday
morning. She says that she was sitting on
the basement steps and the baby was on the
sidewalk outside the iron railing She went 10
get her to put her in the baby carriage, but
could not find her. she came IN AMI told her
tl,aK a
child in the neighborhood Failing to ind her
they went over t" tho lower Fulton street 20.
lice station and reported the loss; Mrs. Cas-
Rily WINS so eXcitou that she said tho child was
2, years old.
Little Johnnie tagged along behind them
him back home. on the wny, the l.eighbor
bought him some fruit at an Italian stand In
looking Tor Lizzie, the Italian told them that
strange man with child had stopped at his
plnce, and for while the police thought that
Katie Cassidy confessed to hor mother that
she sometimes took the baby down to the
house on Friday morning At the foot Of
fridge street. not far from the Cassidys, tho
There there is one OF the free baths, and Fri
day was iris day at the bathhouse. The no.
liceman who was on duty o.. the pier on Fri
day morning does not remember that there
were any children abou. as early as lC O'Clock.
Above this rier. hsyond the old dog pound. is
an, open place once Poons shipyard, soon
to be opened as children's playground. Hero
q child might easily fall into the river. al
though on weekdays there are always men at
work on the railroad and'ice barges here
. The Cassidy chill might have tCddIed down
Bridge street street to the river ard fallen In The
ono would have taken special notice Of her
About week ago'she .trayed away around the
police station 10y an officer. There her mother
found her; The Cessilys hone she has straycd
Thomas Cassidy says he hasn't an enemy and
everybody knows he couldn't pay any ransom.