Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-06-03
many MARION CLARK.

The little Clark child is just now the
heroine Of New York. On the night of
| the day when she was rescued from the
| hands of the kidnappers and brought
home. thousands Of people gathered In
| front of her parents residence and de-
manded that she be shown them. Several
times Mrs. Clark took Marion in her
arms, threw open window, and exhibited
her darling. On each occasion shouts of
JOY from the people in the street rent the
air. In the language Of the day, Marion
was rendered "A great ovation"
And when lady in the Clark house
took some flowers from a bouquet and
threw them down to the crowd, there
was such rush and crush to get posses
sion of these souvenirs, several persons
came near losing their lives.
The thankfulness and goodwill to
which the New Workers have given ex-
preston are highly credhable TO them.
They show that in that big, overgrown,
but somewhat provincial town. there is
plenty of good, honest. human nature
eYtant.
The crowds before the Clark house
cheered the names of all who did con-
spicuous work in searching for the stolen
child; but after ALL Marion in all proba-
bilty. would be in the hands of the kid
nappers yet but for the part the news
papers took in the rescue.
Here in Richmond we usually find our
,.ff, a.
help of the press but it is not that way
in New York. The difference. we sus-
pect, is, that here the papers claim little
for themselves as police adjuncts in fer
reting out crime, while In New York the
papers are not at all bashful in assert
ing their claims. In this particular case,
the news of the abduction got into the
papers in spite of the New York Police
Department. Yet, after eleven days of
futile search the stolen child was dis
covered solely through the alertness and
intelligence of a woman CIrs. Cary who
had seen Marion's portrait in the New
York Herald, according TO the Herald:
in the Journal If we may believe the
Journal
The detectives assert that they were
on the track of the criminals before Mrs
Cary made her discovery; but according
TO their own story they were put upon
that track" by another woman. who
must have gotten her information about
the missing child from the newspapers.
The woman here referred TO is a resident
of 10.
ductors rented room from her and
brought the child to her house and kept
her there a short time.
Again, when first the newspaper re-
porters saw the letter signed Three"
which was written to Mrs. Clark on
the day of the abduction, they declared
it must have been the production of some
one accustomed to preparing copy" for
printers. That prediction has proved lite
rally true, for Jennie Wilson, alias Nc
Nally, the woman In whose hands the
baby was found in the mountains near
Haverstraw, is the daughter of the editor
of % country weekly, and is herself a
typesetter.
Up TO this writing, so far as We know,
the police have not found Carrie Jones.
the nurse who betrayed her trust. but
it is not probable that she can escape
the meshes of the law. Ultimately, all
connected with the crime will be arrested.
and, we trust, will be forced to pay the
penalty Of their heartless crime.
In one of the many letters sent the
child's parents after her abduction, IL
was stated that mistake had been
made by the kidnappers in abducting
Marion; that it was intended that a mil
lionaires chic should be taken instead.
That writer alleges that there is an
American Malta" organization, which
means TO steal the children of rich people
who will not give them money.
The New York Journal scored "beat"
against its rivals by sending special
train 10 bring Mr.. Clark and his child
back to New York. The representatives
of the other papers who We're present
must have turned green with envy and
jealousy, almost, when they saw the
father and daughter leave the station in
the Journals train.
IT appears that Marion was not ILL
treated by her captors, and her mother.
who was thought TO be incurably III.
when the good news reached her jumped
out of bed and has been lively as a
cricket ever since.
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Nrr William IL Curtis the well-known