The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1899-06-06

Mrs. Beauregard at II o'clock, near The
Arsenal and we took her out of the baby
carriage. Mrs Beauregard took the cEi-G
out of the carriage. which we deserted.
Il was awfuIly scared. We hurried south
| toward the Eighth avenue entrance, and
there we took an electric car. 1t was an
Eighth avenue car and bound for South
Ferry.
When we reached the ferry we took
Marion into the woman's waiting room
and changed her clothes. Mrs. Beaure-
gard put the baby's sacque and other
clothes in a bag and put on the clothes she
had brought with her
THE baby didn't cry a bit She was
awfully fond of me. you know. But
| think she was afraid of Mrs. Beauregard.
Not once did little Marion miss her moth
er. She thought so much of me. ycI
know, that she didn't see the difference
when We had dressed the baby We
crossed the ferry to Hamilton avenue.
think it was, and took Third avenue
car. That's as near as can remember.
Then we went to Mrs Cosgrif's house, at
2Sl Twenty-seventh street, Brooklyn.
"As soon as 1 got there, I was awfuny
frightened. I wanted Mrs. Beauregard 10
let me take the baby home. But she
wouldn't. She left me there and went out.
She told me she was going over to New
York to send the note TO the C-arks.
Il forgot to say that Mr.. Beauregar6
met Us on the way from the ferry. He
went with US nearly to the house; then
he went away. I waited with Marion till
Mrs. Beauregard came back. She said
she had given the note to the boy TO de-
liver.
ION Monday the story got into'the aft
ernoon papers. Mrs. Beauregard said we
had to get out. She seemed to be aston
ished that the newspapers had got hold
Of it so quickly. She said we would go
TO sloatsburg
1--WE took train for Sloatsburg, sep
arating before we got to the train. We
| went out by the Erie, and I sat in another
car. Mrs. Beauregard and her husband
took the baby. We got to Sloatsburg in
the evening and went TO a house near
there. 1 can't remember where it was
WAS it at st. John's?" asked the re-
porter.
It can't remember" she answered.
Anyway, we went to a house near there.
Beauregard came there with us and went
away. Then he came back again.
He used to buy all the newspapers and
| laugh over the hunt. I was scared haf
to death. Then l couldn't help thinking
of the poor mother, and my heart ached.
oh, let US take aAIrion back said l.
Why can't we take the baby back TO her
mother?'
THE Beauregards wouldn't listen to it
They said they would hang on TO her till
| they got the ransom. That is what they
We're after.
ION Friday left Sloatsburg. The Beau
regards told me it would be better if I
went back to New York didn't want
to leave the baby, but they insisted. SO
1 took a train for New York.
when I arrived there I Went directly
to the Mills hotel I had changed my
sirt and hat. I wore this polkadot and
bicycle cap. Every day since then I went
out to my meals. No one seemed to rec
ognize me and l attracted no notice.
Yesterday Mr.. Beauregard came down
to New York. I was staying in his apart
ment, and he found me there He was
! awfully excited. The whole things up"
! he said; they have arrested my wife. I
/ am going back there. You had better get
/ out of New York quickly as you can
He gave me $40 and tod me to SO out
! ll4lO the country L COuiQ mink OF no OLueI
/ place than Summit. SO 1 went there.
'I got on an elevated train, and by mis-
! take went to South Ferry. Then I went
back TO Christopher street and got my
wheel. While 1 was there a policeman
stood out in front. I asked him how to
| get on the ferry, and he showed me the
| way. I thanked him and got on the boat.
II arrived at Summit at 5:53 p. m. There
| was no one at the station that knew me.
[ got on my wheel and started over to-
ward my mothers home. On the road
1 stopped at Mrs. Kely's to rest. Then
after awhile 1 rode on toward my aunt's.
I have been here since yesterday.
Il don't know how you caught me- I
thought I was going to get away"
1t seemed incredible that this girl, hard
~ more than a child had lent hand in
one of the most desperate acts ever COM
mitted in New York.
One at a glance could tell her for the
simp,e-minded country girl that she IN
doubtedly is. But there was no evidence
of a vicious or evil disposition. In fact.
she seemed a child, and as a child she
! seems to have acted.
! There was every convincing argument IN
= her manner that the girl had been made
the dupe of stronger minds. In the long
talk the reporter had with her she dis
played only simplicity. Perhaps this sim
pIicity is but veil for deep schemng.
But such a thing is hard. indeed. TO be-
lieve
When arrested the girl wore poIka-dot
dress and the identica, waist Of the police
descriptions.
Her appearance was neat; her manner
! quiet and gentle Her voice, too, was of
an intonation rare in people Of her class.
| It was soft and low and even. and but
for the occasional lapse in grammar. one
might easily have taken her for thor
oughly educated woman.
Following is the story Of Mrs Ada B.
( Carey. who caused the arrest Of the a5-
ductor Of Marion Clark:
I first knew the woman whose arrest
I caused on Thursday a the abductor Of
the Clark baby, when she was teacher
Of a little country school at Johnsontown.
a mile below here in the hills about Eve
years ago.
She was a Eighty sir, not a. al steady
whom I did not think suited for a teacher.
The neighbors talked about her as a pref
" Wild girl, and said she was often seen
flirting with the boys and behaving her
self in an unseeuly manner
7 have not/ seen her since that time
until OF last Wednesday she came 70 the
postoffice Of which I am in charge and
asked if there was any letter for Miss
Jennie Wilson She had the Clark baby
with her. and I was a. once struck 5y
its appearance because Il The resemblance
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