Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-05-23
A DARING KIDNAPPING.
Nurse Girl In New York Steals Her
Employers Baby.
ITS LIFE Is THREATENED.
MysterioUs Letter Announces That If
the Affair Becomes Public the
Parents VIII Never See
Their Child Again.

New York, May ga daring case OF
kidnapping, which carries with it the
threat of a still more serious crime, has
been reported to the police and is now
occupying the attention of Captain Nc
Clusky and the central office detective
force.
Marion Clark, the 1S-months- sold
daughter of Arthur Clark Of 1853 East
Sixtyf fifth street, was taken from Cen
trail park by a nurse girl with whom she
had been intrusted.
A note brought to the parents of the
child announced the kidnapping and in
timated that ransom would be requir-
ed. 1t threatened that if the matter
was made public the child would never
be seen alive again.
The nurse. a girl NAMED Carrie Jones,
who had been with the Clarks but
week, went out into the park with the
child in a perambulatOr. AS the family
had the utmost confidence in the girl
having engaged her on appearance only
nothing was thought Of it when the
day wore away and the girl and child
failed to appear.
Finally a 13-year-old boy named
Frederick Lang brought a note to the
Clarks. The note, which was written
on what was apparently newspaper
copy paper, was printed in lead pencil,
according to the police, and was I'M
doubtedly written by the girl. 1t ran
thus:
Mrs. Clark-Do not look for your
nurse and baby. They are safe in our
possession, where they viii -femain for
the present. If the matter is kept out
Of the hands of the police and the news
papers, you will get your baby back
safe and sound. If. instead, you make
a big time of it and publish 1t all over,
we will see to it that you never see her
alive again. We are driven to this by
the fact that we cannot get work, and
one of us has a child dying through
want Of proper treatment and nourish-
ment. Your baby is safe and In good
hands. The nurse girl is still with her
If everything is quiet, you will hear
from us THREE
The Police Notified.
The father at once notified the police
The Lang boy was arrested by Detec-
tive McGinty and was rigidly question
ed, but only said that he had got the
letter from a woman at the corner OF
Sixty first street and Second avenue
who had paid him to take 1t to the
Clarks. 1t was more evidence that he
knew nothing about the matter. He
was accordingly released. after being
cautioned to keep quiet about the mat
ter.
A hurried search of the park follow
ed, which resulted only however, in the
finding of the empty perambuator.
1t was agreed that the matter should
be kept quiet. The father was to deal
with the kidnapers as they might sug-
gest, while the police would watch ev-
cry possible point in an attempt to
catch the llidnapers.
As the servant girl never lived in New
York and so far as the Clarks know,
never had n city address. tracing her is
naturally difficult. She came, according
to the story she told the Clarks. from
Duquesn", Ia. Clark got her through
newspaper advertisement. She came
without any reference, and the Clarks
We're so pleased by her appearance that
they took her unquestioningly.
She is about 20 years old and Is de-
scribed as about five feet tall, with dark
hair, high cheek bones and large gray
eyes. When last seen, she wore a blue
and white checked shirt waist and a
black skirt.
The missing child is IS months old
and was dressed in an old rose colored
dress. white silk cape, black button
shoes and black stockings.
Arthur Clark, the father is employed
as clerk by the Knight & Brown Pub
;,, ho c1Nx,t tot ~,
building.
The letter is printed in a good hand,
and the spelling and punctuation are
good The work is evidently that of
man.