New-York tribune., 1899-07-18
ABDUCTED BALTIMORE HEIRESS.
SEARCH FOR GLADYS PEROT, AGED
ELEVEN. WHOM HER DIVORCED
MOTHER TOOK FROM HER
QRANDFATHER,9 CARE

Baltimore July n (specaD.-A hundred moro
detectives are now searching Montreal. New-York.
Chicago and other American cities for Mrs
Letitia Perot and her little daughter, Gladys Perot
aged eleven whom the mother abducted last
Wednesday. Cable messages were sent TO private
detective agencies In London. Liverpool and Paris
to-day 10 keep lookout for the little girl and her
mother While all the outgoing steamships from
PHILADELPHIA New-Yori< and Boston have been
watched since Saturday. It Is probable that Mrs
Perot who is as sharp and shrewd as she Is beau
.ifu and talented, may have eluded the authorities
and be now half way across the Atlantic with her
child.
William H. Perot. the grandfather Of the child.
In whose custody the Court had placed her and
her brother is greatly distressed over the loss OF
his little favorite and OF the heirs to his large
fortune He has authorized the detectives to spare
no expense recover the child. All the principal
detective agencies In this country. Canada and
England will be employed In the search. The child
10 the image Of her mother. with a rich olive COM
plexion black hair and large lustrous black eyes
a beauty OF the distinct Spanish type. Members OF
the Perot family secretiye about the case as
II has been learned that the abduction was ef-
the country the Perots at first reported
At the fearful pleadings of the divorced wife who
her children. the grandfather brought them to a
fashionable hotel in this city The mother appeared
wild with Joy at seeing them again The grand
father yielding further TO her pleadings. permitted
her the little Rrl over night at the motel.
An hour after he had started for the country with
the boy, the mother and daughter were driven In
q closed carriage to the Pennsylvania Railroad sta
ton and started Immediately for NewYork.
An EngIishman named Blood is believed to have
aided the In her flight. The evening she
Ieft here with the child she sent telegram to him
asklnR him 10 meet her at the Waldorf Astoria
Hoiei When Mr: Perot learned this the next day
he went to New-York. having previously made
rangements with his son-in-law, J. +. Hayward, OF
New York to trace Mrs Perot When the New
York detectives got to the Waldorf Astoria, the
woman had met Blood and gone an hour before.
The abduction has created a big sensation In
club and society circles. In which the Perots
are prominent. n Mrs Perot is found in Canada
he taken 10 show that she s not a proper person
10 have possession Of the child az otherwise she
has the first right to II. II Is said she has
committed a crime anywhere except in being In
contempt of court here In Maryland and that
nroceedlngs elsewhere will be civil instead OF
Criminal Mrs. Perot has sister In London, Eng
land: relatives In Montreal. Canada. and also in
named place where she met and married young
perot when he was manager OF the Perot sugar
estates there
The rowing life led by Mrs Perot since her de-
narture from Baltimore six years ago makes DIFF
ncuIt TO locate form any conjecture 10 her
nrohabe destination, but II Is believed she will go
to England or France. She is well known In Paris
and London. Mrs. Perot divorced from her
husband william Y Perot. last september, the
decree being signed by Judge Burke OF the Circuit
Court OF Baltimore County. In her bill Mrs Perot
alleged abandonment Her husband had been for
some time I'm South America where great deal or
his life has been spent. He is now there. He Is
well posted on South American questions and has
made special study OF the Venezuela British