The evening times., 1899-07-10
BRooKLYN'S LOST BABY.
still No CIew TO Missing Little Liz
Zie Cassidy.

Zie Cassidy.
New York July 1O.-Little Lizzie Cassidy
may be drowned or she may be kidnapped
or she may be just lost, but, whatever has
become of this nineteen -months-old Brook
lyn girl, she has disappeared mysteriously.
Detectives and policemen and neighbors of
the Cassidys have hunted high and low
along the river front in 'tIrishtown." te-
tween the navy yard and the bridge, and
they haven't found one person in that
thickly-settled tenement district, inhabit-
ed by Irish, Italians, and Poles, who has
seen or heard of strayed, toddling child.
They have searched cellars, empty tene-
ments, lumber yards, and even sewers;
they have gone about everywhere that a
child could go in that neighborhood; they
have questioned Italian fruit vendors. Irish
saloon keepers, and marines from the navy
yard. No one has seen Lizzie Cassidy-a
plain-faced, blue-eyed, black-haired,
broad-nosed child, with a high forehead
and scars on her shoulder and forehead
who wore a faded pink calico dress. a
white piQue coat, black laced shoes, and
black stockings.
The Cassidys moved into the basement
OF the house at No. le0 York Street, a
few doors from the Bridge Street elevated
railroad station, a fortnight ago. There
were six of them before Lizzie disappeared
Friday morning-Thomas Cassidy, born and
bred in the neighborhood, a cracker baker
by trade, now at work in Arbuckle's fac
tory at the foot of Pearl Street; his wife,
Elizabeth, and the four children, Kate,
George, John, and Lizzie.
Kate the eldest, ten years old, was look
ing after Lizzie Friday morning. She says
that she was sitting on the basement steps
and the baby was on the sidewalk outside
the iron railing She went to get her to
put her in the baby carriage, but could not
find her. She came in and told her mother
and two started out looking for the
child in the neighboThood. Failing to find
her they went over to the lower Fulton
Street police station and reported the loss.
Mrs. Cassidy was so excited that she said
the child was two and half years old.
Little Johnnie tagged along behind them
and was picked up by neighbor. who took
him back home. On the way the neighbor
bought him some fruit at an Italian s
stand in Bridge Street. When the police
started out looking for Lizzie the Italian
told them that a strange man with child
had stopped at his place and for a while
the police thought that this was clew.
Katie Cassidy confessed to her mother
that she sometimes took the baby down
to the river, but she said she wasn't away
from the house on Friday morning At the
foot of Bridge Street, not far from the
Cassidys, the children of the neighborhooc
play a great deal. There there is one oi
the free baths, and Friday was girls day
at the bathhouse. The policeman who was
on duty on the pier on Friday morning
does not remember that there were and
children about as early as 10 O'Clock
Above the pier, beyond the old dog pond
is an open place, once Poillon's shipyard
soon TO be opened as a children's play.
ground. Here a child might easily fall
into the river, although on weekday:
there are always men at work on the rail,
road and ice barges there.
The Cassidy child might have toddlet
down Bridge Street to the river and falleI
in. The streets there are filed with chill
dren, and no one would have taken specia
notice of her. About a week ago sh
strayed around the corner into Bridg
Street and was taken TO the police station
by an officer. There her mother found her
The Cassidys hope she has strayed AVA
again and that somebody has found her
Thomas Cassidy says he hasn't an enemy
and everybody knows he couldn't pay an,
ransom.