The Jersey City news., 1899-06-02
BABY CLARK'S ABDUCTORS
Country Officials Refuse to
Deliver Them to New York
Officers.

Clusky openly expressed his indignation
today at the action Of the officials OF
Saloatsburgh and Gainerville in refusing
TO give up the alleged kidnappers OF
Marion Clark, Jennie Wilson, as, ds she
is said to be really named, Addie Wilson,
and her husband who called himself Jas.
McNally Both are in jail in New York,
and McClusky said that the refusal to de-
liver them up to the New York detectives
was an Outrageous p.ece of work
He said that the county officials had AZ.
solutely no charge TO make against them,
and were holding til en- only on suspicion.
The crime of abduction, he said, was com
ers should have been brought here at
once.
The baby passed a peaceful night in her
home, to the joy of herparents and to the
delight of the better part of the lnhaol-
tants of the Metropolis.
Detectives Reidy and Armstrong and
Mrs. Cosgriff of Brooklyn, in whose house
the Wilson woman Is supposed to have
stayed after the kidnapping, started his
morning for New City where Mrs Cos
griff will try to identify the woman as
the one who stayed at her home.
Captain McClusky said that Carrie
Jones, the nurse maid, left collar at
Mrs Clark's house which is the same
make and size and has the same laundry
mark as the one left by the women at
Mrs. Cosgriff's Brooklyn house. The
prisoners are expected in this city some
time today, unless the officials in New
City refuse to give them UP. In that case
" III rr-tl OF 11
to Governor Roosevelt.
Captain McClusky said that he would
not say word about what he considered
the motive for the abduction of the child.
Captain McClusky said that the work of
the police was only beginning. They
hoped to run down the nurse and anybody
else connected with the abduction.
Arthur w. Clark, the father of Marion
CLARK, in Yorkville Police Court this
morning secured a warrant for the arrest
of James and Jennie Wilson and Carrie
Jones.
A crowd began to assemble about the
Clark home early this morning. School
children predomnated, but there were
many grown people who Joined in the
shouts for a sight of the baby. Finally
Mrs. Clark went to a window, raised one
of the sashes and held Marion up. The
crowd cheered and yelled to it's hearts s
content and the mother and child laughed
for sheer happiness The cheering kept
up for some minutes, and the little hero
inc of the kidnapping case kissed her
hand to her admirers. with the dignity
of prima donna.
Mr.. Clark is determined to prosecute
everyone who has been in anyway com
nected with the abduction of the child.
He said he intended to remain from busi-
ness for the purpose of assisting as much
as possible in getting justice.
The warrant secured by Mr.. Clark
charges James Wilson, Jennie Wilson
and Carrie Jones, acting in concert with
each other, in feloniously kidnapping the
child.
About three years ago man answering
to the description Of J. Arthur Wilson,
the husband of Addie Wilson, was an
employe of a local printing house. He
gave his native city as New Orleans, and
went to work at printing after leaving
a Broadway auction house. printer
who knew him said today
"He left us to take job as conductor
on the Broadway cable road He said his
wife was the daughter of the publisher
of paper in Goshen, N. Y. and that she
worked at her trade as typesetter, help
ing him to support their establishment.
.'I heard of him after that" continued
the printer, sas a promoter of some
political club in the Ninth Ward, aeminor
Tamany organization. l wouldn't swear
he and this Wilson are one without see
ing him, but if the two are not the same,
it is a remarkable coincidence
1t was reported today that the Wilson
woman told Detective Herlihy that on the
Sunday of the kidnapping she met Carrie
Jones in New York City somewhere on
the east side, just where she declined to
state. She said that she met the
woman on the street, and that
Carrie Jones told her the child was
sick and in nede of country air, and asked
her if she would take the child to the
country The Wilson woman said Carrie
Jones offered to pay her well for her
trouble. She agreed to the proposition,
and took charge of the baby. The woman
gave her considerable money and she left
with the child The Wilson woman is re-
ported to have further said
Il decline to state where was with the
baby since I took It in charge. I did not