New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1899-05-28
VAIN SEARCH GOES ON.
Dor rc, FOLLOWING WORTHLESS cLEws
TO MARION CLARKs ABDUCToRs.
coLoREp WOMAN WHO TOOK FAih'hN'"A'
p.pr To Rf.1L.EvuE DETAINED. But THE
CHILD WAS NOT THE MISSING
LITTLE ONE.

LITTLE ONE.
II will be a week to-day since 'he nuis. -,
known as Carrie Jones took the papy uaue
Arthur Clark, of No. 1853 East sixty-hi.h-'' ,,,s
Central Park, and disappeared win the o",'u
rna no,ce have been hunting high and low TOT
~, war,on clark and the nurse. but have failed
=. -. orv trace Of them. Large rewards TOT tne
oooverv nj the child have been onereo, an"
thousands of persons have been interes'eu ~ ''
case but the detectives have found every a''.s.'
clev worthless when II was investigated i"'
notice believe that the child is being held lot ran
som by kidnappers. who had iaiu
TO abduct the little one
II was stated Yesterday that three letters each
signed Three" and purporting to be written py
abductors OF Marion Clark had peeh receNeu ~
the child's parents since she was stolen. MT |i" n
wiI not give any information on the SUBJECT anu
Captain McClusky of the Detective BUREAU
whom the letters are believed 10 have been ueh'-
o-od hv Mr. clark will not admit that such letters
are In existence II.
There has been something Of an attempt 10 raise
susn,cion against Mrs. Clark's mother IN reports
that the mother had been opposed 10 the mar 'eo
OF her daughter to Mr.. Clark Previous 10 hei
marriage. Mrs Clark was Miss Margaret be''s'
oha nos q Roman Catholic while Mr.. Clark was a
pro,astort II has been asserted that Mrs. Be''s
xould not consent TO her daughters marriage ior
time but she was a witness Of the marriage ce'e
ronv which was performed by Alderman freuerioN
A. Ware on July g. 1896
The police were trying yesterday to verify re-
port that Carrie Jones was servant III INC
pIav of Dr. j. r. Alvarez. at No. 1861 LeAihs In
ave in 1897 and was then known as carrie ""
k,nson It is reported that she took the name VI
Jones after a baby was born 10 her III the 'i 49,
and Babies Hospital at Lexington-aVe anu ~
second ST which she Is said TO nave eh'eiou o"
the name OF Carrie Wilkinson. OF NO iSi ota'e-s''
prooklvn DR. J. A. Mitchell Of the Hospital
cyve
comes close to that OF the nurse VINO mas u,sap
reared She is said to have been employed iol !"
time IN 1897 by a Mrs He. at the ADDRESS III brooN
lyn ,,,. hahv
rbera was a report that Carrie Wilkinsons paoy
died on September 10. 1897. DR.. Roger . ray
Register of Vital Statistics. said yesterday 'ia o
racords showed no such death for September 1871
..Sar 20 hohv NJ Carrie Jones or Carrie Wilkin-
coored woman who said she was Ssra "a o Wes
Forty seventh2st walked into the Bellev9e es 0id
pitai last evening carrying white chla and asked
them 10 treat It, The doctors became suspcioohh s
of the case and questioned ne woman r aS 70 he be
eSont twenty months old The woman became very
Indignant and wanted to leave ne gven bv the
Gibbs woman 1t ascertaned that tne woman thn
been s@yHg S'R wes Mfs since
last Saturday Yesterday she went out taki ny IKE
Ih't o some institution to receive medical attend
ance as the child has been sicky since us Dirth'
which occurred In the sloane maternity iio'p''"'
eighteen months ago. - ,,,,.
Alter closer examination the doctors at Bellevue
UosntaI said that they had doubt that the child
did belong to the Gibbs woman, and allowed the
woman 10 go home The infant was taken 70 the
Willard Parker Hospital in East Sixteenth-st.,
where II will be treated for dphtheria.
Arthur Clark went to the Willard Parker HOS
nifal soon after word had been sent 10 him lie
was accompanied by detective. The child was
held up at some distance from Mr.: clark. on &C
head soon he caught glimpse OF the , infant;
was evident that he had not been hopeful that the
child his.