The times., 1899-06-03
CROWDS CHEER BABY CLARKE.
No Trace of chrle Jones, the Missing

EfNprse-
New York, 1dnd Though Marian
Clarke is with her family again. much
OF the mystery surrounding her abduction
is yet to be cleared up. The police are
hard at work trying to bring to justice
the persons who were concerned in the
kidnapping. They have now in custody in
New City the man and woman who had
the child in their possession when she was
found near Sloatsburg yesterday. AS yet
there is no trace of Carrie Jones, the
missing nurse. On the surface there seems
TO be an entire lack of motive for the
stealing. The Clarkes were not persons
VINO could afford to pay a large ransom.
The police may know what the motive
was but they are keeping silent on that
point. They are sure, however, that there
was carefully planned conspiracy to steal
the child, and they intend to get TO the
bottom of the whole thing.
Captain McClusky of the detective bu-
reau would not say today what was the mo-
tive for the abduction of the Clarke baby,
or In fact whether or not he had discov-
cred the motive. Before going to police
headquarters this morning he met Mr.
Clarke by appointment and advised him to
go to the Yorkville Police Court and get
warrants for the arrest of the McNallys
and one for Jane Doe
The Jane Doe was, he said, intended to
apply to Carrie Jones. The first caller at
the Office of Captain McClusky today was
Mrs. JAMES Cosgriff. of 2S1 Twenty
Street, Brooklyn. She brought with her
baby which she was taking care of. Mrs.
Cosgrif and the baby went from their
home in Brooklyn to police headquarters
in carriage with a detective. The baby
was left in charge of the matron, and
Mrs. Cosgriff agreed TO go up to New City
with Detectives Herlihy, Armstrong, and
Reidy, who were to serve the warrants on
the man and woman now under arrest.
The object of Mrs. Cosgriff' s. visit to New
City with the detectives is to see whether
the Mrs. James ]. McNally, or Mrs. Jen-
ME Wilson, as she also called herself, was
the same woman who as Mrs. Davis" en-
gagged a room at her house on Saturday,
May 20, and on the following afternoon
appeared at the house with another woman
and a baby. The two women remained at
the house until the following day, and
then left suddenly.
Captain McClusky said: I'VE know that
the Wilson woman is not the nurse girl,
Carrie Jones, and we believe that the Will
son woman is the same woman who called
herself Mrs. Davis and posed as the mother
of the Clarke baby when the two women
took the baby to Mrs. Cosgriff's house.
lUeTe was a large crONQ III front OF lne
Clarke house, at 159 East Sixtyffth Street.
today cheering for the kidnapped baby
Marian, for her parents, for the police, and
for anything that suggested cheer. The
door of the house was swinging all the
time to admit persons who bad come to
offer congratulations on the child's re-
turn.
The curious and the sympathetic gath
cred in front of the Clarke house early to-
day. Workmen whose labors took them out
at an early hour went out of their way to
pass along Sixty fifth Street. AS the day
grew the crowd increased. 1t was partic-
ularly large at $50 O'clock, when the chill
dren from the school near by gathered
around. All had been out of bed early and
had bolted their breakfasts to get to the
Clarke house in good time. Even the house,
not different from a dozen houses in the
block, seemed TO have strange fascina-
tion for the crowd. 1t was the steady OBJ
1ect of the gaze OF the hundreds who wait
ed in the hope, too, that at some time the
baby might appear in the window.
At 9 o'clock nurse girls with their
charges and all manner and conditions of
men and women Joined the waiting throng.
Three cheers for baby Marianr one
would cry, and the cheer would be taken
up and prolonged all the length OF the
block. Heads appeared at every window
and handkerchiefs and flags were waved
everywhere. The block, in fact, took on
a gala day appearance. The cheering was
repeated and yell on yell went up on all
sides. The children screamed with all their
power for a glimpse OF the child. Many
women wept