The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-05-28

over 10 the park myself. I had no reason
Tor doing so. II seems TO me now as If il
was some sort Of premonition.
i walked past the Arsenal and under
the archway of Sixty-hfth street and saw
the baby carriage standing in front of the
pavilion there.
thought nothing of this at first, bur
after a While asked the matron where the
nurse was who was in charge Of that car
riage.
Oh. she went up the path there said
the matron
I inquired further and found that the
nurse had asked the matron TO look out
Tor the carriage while she took the child
| u see the bears, but that, instead OF walk
ing toward the menagerie section. the
nurse had gone toward Seyenty-second
street
The matron thought nothing strange Of
this, thinking only the nurse was taking
the child to where donkey rides are given,
and l did not think anything of it myself
l went to where the donkeys were, and
looked and waited. and went over to the
Mall and looked everywhere, but could see
neither the nurse nor Marion. I began to
| get uneasy. and al O'Clock I went home
N--S A4~i St might AdNS AoSL HeT
| way and could not find the baby carriage
out mad got out of the park and gone
home.
Carrie was not there. and after hur
RED dinner. l went back to the park. I
again looked all around and then reported
to the police. They told me the nurse was
probably lost, but would e found all
right.
4 looked around again. and then went
nome There I found a boy who had
brought the note signed Three and tell
ing me that my child was stolen.
! detained the boy. and sent for the
police
| 1t seems that the boy knew nothing OF
the case, having been given the note by
woman who met him on the street and
gave him dime to deliver it.
mat is all 1 know. 1 cannot imagine
any cause for the stealing but the desire
Tor money, and yet as I am far from
rich man, cannot see why was chosen
as victim.
The girl had quarreled with no one in
the mouse; had no i'll will toward anyone.
so far as I know or can learn, nor can
any theory OF insanity or hysteria explain
her action. 1t seems to me to be plot.
carefully laid. to kidnap my child and that
money was the object"
Freddie Lang. who delivered the note
signed Three" at the Clarke home. is a
bright little boy Of 13 He lives in the
rear house at 54S West Fffty-frst street
The boy tells his story as follows:
Il as around at Reynolds stables about
o'clock on Sunday afternoon, when Pad |
dV MuIVeV asked rY,o 70 fsI-
his sister, at 1876 Second avenue. He told
me not to go up into the house before 4
O'Clock, as she wouldn't be there till that
time. He gave me car fare and I rode !
across In the Fifty-ninth street car. got /
out at Third avenue, walked up to Sixty |
hrst street and through to Second ave-
nue.
Then I stood near the corner of Second |
avenue, between a saloon and a grocery |
store. waiting for 4 O'Clock. I had been
standing there about ten minutes when 7 /
saw girl running across the avenue
toward me.
I can't say whether she got out of a
car or not.
She ran up TO me and said Little bov.
will you take a letter TO $50 East Sixty
fifth street? I said I would. and she IN
wrapped a handkerchief she carried in
her hand and took out the letter.
''She said: Are your pockets clean?'
Il put my hand in my coat pocket and
took out a little matchbox that I found
and said Yes. ma'am.'
Then she put the letter in my pocket
and told me to be sure and take 1t out by
the corner so as not to dirty il. She put
a dime in my hand and said. Now. hurry
Il started for the corner OF Sixty-fifth
street. and she walked quickly ahead OF
me. I stopped at the corner and watched
her. She went down Second avenue and
got on a downtown car, between Sixtieth
and Sixty-first streets.
Il took the letter to $50 East Sixty
fifth street, and an old lady let me in.
She told me TO wait for an answer. Then
they called me up into Mrs. Clark's room
and asked me who gave me the letter. I
said a girl gave ii TO me at the corner
Of Sixty-frst street and Second avenue.
THE girl who gave me the letter was
about % years old. 7 should think. She
was short and had dark brown hair. I
cant remember how she was dressed, ex-
cept that she wore a dark straw hat Ike
boys wear and there was a soldier button
1n one side Of the hat"
Patrick Alulvey and his sister verified
The boys story. After his release by the
police he went home. but said nothing
about his adventure. He said that he for
got all about II.
Statement Of Miss Madden. matron az
he pavilion beside which the baby car
Iage was left:
ct was between II and y o'clock that
nurse asked me TO watch her carriage {
or her. 7 had noticed the nurse a few +
lays before. because she wore very short :
p-on. Even now doubt IL 7 could recoz-
lie her face. q
''She said she wanted % show The bears a
o the child and said 70 hurry no. be- z
ause could not watch the carriage very g
oHg. 2
She started or toward seventv-secona | z
treet. instead u toward the bears. but
ad noticed her pick Up her purse from =
he carriage and thought she was going 5
0 the donkeys. q
= did not see her again. and in a little ?
-hi,e Mr. Clark came and asked abo,1.
81. J noticed nothing unusual II her r
tanner or actions" p
The note brought by Freddie Izrz 70 &.
rs. Clark IS AZ follows. q
Mrs. Clsrk:-Do not Iook for your nu-ss :.
nd baby. They are safe 81 our posses o
lon. here they wliI remain for the pres q
IL =,
II tire matter s. kept out q Ire rans-
the police ard newspapers. you VIII get y
cur baby back safe ard sound.
y instead you make great tine n II 7
&c plb,isa Il al over we wil see % 81 I,
lst you vii never see her alive again