New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-27
THE MISSING CLARK BABY.
WOMAN WHO REFUSES HER NAME,
OFFERS REWARD-MORE LETTERS
RECEIVED BY POLICE.


The police yesterday obtained no trace OF the
missing Clark baby. who alleged TO have been
kidnapped by the nurse girl. Carrie Jones. last
Sunday in Central Park. any trace OF the nurse
girl herself. Captain McC1usky said yesterday that
he was as far from a solution OF the mystery rs
on the first day He said the police were looking
high and low for the missing child
Both Mr. and Mrs. Clark still distracted over
the absence OF their child. Both refuse to any
callers except their most intimate friends and
relatives. detective still watches the house and
sees every one who goes into 1t.
woman. who said she was a mother and ex-
pressed desire to offer reward for the recovery
OF the child. called at the East Fifty-hrst-st sta
ton yesterday morning She In carriage.
with fine team OF horses and she and a COM
panion. a somewhat younger person. were well
dressed She was referred TO Police Headquarters,
where she went, and saw Captain McCIusky. The
amount OF the reward she desires to offer is $500.
Captain McClusky advised her to go to some
newspaper and advertise the reward She depart
ed. saying that she would do this. She declined to
give her name. but is said to be the wife of prom
inent lawyer In this city.
Another mysterious letter reached Captain Nc
Clusky through ex-Chief McCullagh, who received
1t by mistake He sent It to the captain. 1t was
like about hundred others the captain says he
has received from all sorts OF persons. This
signed like number OF others he has received
with the mysterious signature Three" the
letter sent by to Mrs Clark telling
her that her baby had been stolen and that she
was safe Captain McClusky said that the letter
made difference In the case as 1t contained only
the informatio that the baby was safe In an asy-
lum. He will pay no further attention to IT,
The following badly written and badly spelled
letter received at the East Sxty-seventh-st.
station:
May 9TH, 1899.
18th st, of the 81
st station. e'''' "
In deap sympthy with Yourself and wife in re-
gard to your lost child. have always very
dear little one don't know. dreamed three times
last mite that your child was kept in hiding in
whether it was east or west Let the detectives
make a search. 1t will do no harm. Ny dreams
coam true L. c.
The police will pay attention to this note.
Captain England. Of the Arsenal. said yesterday
that he had no confidence in the Johnston
Smith stories. He has had Them investigated
closely, and they have nothing TO do with the child
or the nurse.
Charles Heidelberg. formerly a detective-ser-
geant at Police Headquarters. said yesterday that
the Clark kidnapping reminded him OF plot
to steal one of the children Of Cornelius Vanderbilt
in 1885, which had been kept from the knowledge of
the public The plot Heidelberg said be-
trayed by. some person who sent an anonymous
letter to William II. Vanderbilt. and Chauncey NJ
DepeW consulted WIN inspector byrnes, tnen az
the head of the Detective Bureau. Heidelberg and
another detective-sergeant were detailed TO watch
the Vanderbilt children when their nurse took
them out for airings in Central Park. 1t was
ascertained. Heidelberg said, that the nurse had
abduct of the children and have the child held
for ransom. The plot failed because OF the watch
kept by the detectives
Patrick Dolan, who was Heidelbergs partner in
detective work at the Central Office. said that In
spector Byrnes was satisfied Of the plot 10 abduct
OF the Vanderbilt children, and the writer OF
the anonymous letter to William II. Vanderbilt
found The had overheard a conversa-
ton between two other men who were concerned
in the plot. Those found and
Swallowed for time. but they were not arrested