The times., 1899-05-26
NO TRACE OF THE STOLEN BABY.
The Kidnapping Mystery Battles the
New YORK Police.

The Kidnapping Mystery Battles the
New YORK Police.
New York. May 25.-The detectives who
have been hunting for little Marion Clark.
who was stolen from the home of her par
| enis at l59 East sixty-ffth Street last
Sunday afternoon. are more than ever
puzzled by the mystery today. The little
girl is missing stll All clews have come
to naught. The detectives apparently ara
without a clew to which they attach any
value. They are searching in every dirsc-
tion that promises any results, and a!e
hoping that news will come at any mo-
moEt that the stolen child has been found
somewhere abandoned by the abductors.
All Of the clews that developed ySster-
day have been sifted to the bottom and
dropped. Some person told tale last
night to the effect that the child was in
the New York Founding Hospital. 1t was
a false story that a brief inveStigetion eX-
posed. The hospital has no inmates with
in q year OF the age of little Marion, all
of them being foundlings OF only a few
weeks or months old.
Another 'clew" that promises to so the
way of all the rest turned up at the East
Sixty-seventh Street police station this
morning. Morris Hayes, the night watch
man at the Broadway Theatre, called at
the station house on his way home and
told the sergeant that he had most vital
clew. The news was telegraphed to Cap
tain McClusky. and a Central office man
was sent to Hayes home at go East Ssv-
enty ninth Street
Il am certain that ! saw the nurse girl
on downtown Third Avenue car on Sun
day evening about 6:lU O'cI0ck," Hayes
told the detective. Il was going to work,
and my attention was attracted by the cry
ing of a child. The woman who was at
tending the child answers the description
of Carrie Jones exactly. She seemed 10 be
frightened, and kept the child's face hid
den. She was still on the car when / got
of at Forty-second Street"
Not much faith is placed in the identi-
fication of woman by C. NJ. Johnson as
one of two women whom he saw take
baby out of a carriage in Central Park
on Sunday afternoon and carry it away.
Johnson's story hangs together badly. one
discrepancy being as to the time of the
occurrence. He said il occurred at
o'clock in the afternoon, four hours after
the police were at work on the Clark
case. For some reason which he will not
reveal Captain England places reliance in
Johnson's story. He says he is convinced
d
Of Inconsistencies. the man really knows
something. On account of this belief Cap
tain England has had Johnson's stories
thoroughly looked, into. The woman John
son Identified is under constant watch.
Captain McClusky has been told the whole
story. but he does not attach much i'm
portance to it.
Captain McClusky is working with
greater energy on this case than he has
shown since the Molineaux case. He is
devoting his entire attention to it. and
until a late hour last night he was en-
gagged in tracing out some clews. He has
put the entire machinery of his depart
ment to work on it.
Arthur Clark. the father of the stolen
child, called at the East Sixty-seventh
Street police station for news this morn
ing Clark was worn and anxious looking
and said that his wife's condition was not
improved. She is suffering from partial
facial paralysis. I'VE have nothing new,"
Clark said when he came out of his house
for a short walk this morning. We are
still hoping but It looks mighty blue"
Every mail brings letters to the Clarks,
but what they contain is q welI-guarded
secret They are turned over to the de-
tectiyes, and if any clew is given it is i'm
mediately investigated. So far nothing OF
importance has been received in the let
ters.
There is no decrease in the number of
callers at the Clark home. Not minute
Of the day passes that some one is not
passing in or out of the place. Two de-
tectiyes have remained constantly on guard
at the nearest street corner, one detective
stays at the house most of the time, and
four or five remain in the vicinity. Clark
makes trips between his home and Captain
McClusky's Office and during the time he
is at home he wanders about the block,
talking to the detectives on the corner and
70 sympathiZing friends.
Considerable excitement was caused at
Highland Park. Brooklyn. last night. by
report that woman answering the de-
scription of Carrie Jones had been seen
near the park with a little girl who was
crying. The man who said ne saw the
two went to the police station on Atlantic
Avenue, and reported it. The story was
believed to be Of enough importance to
warrant thorough investigation Some
fifty policemen were sent out to scour the
park and vicinity, and the presence OF so
many men in uniform on such an errand
aroused the neighborhood A good-sized
crowd gathered and Joined in the search.
which resulted in nothing.