The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1900-11-02
A Fourteen-Year-0id BOY Detects
Woman Kidnapping a Child
WOMAN ROUTs TWO BURGLARS.
Captured One aud Tnrncd Him Over
10 the PoIicc-Endy OF Young Wo-
man, Turned TO Stone, Found Isl
= Cellar Of III Embalmer.

Proo,,I,n interriIuted Yesterday afternoon
n well-arranced plan to kidnap Nellie
Agnes Thompson, four years Ola, OF No
So Central Avenue. It was ddElaS .'ie
noon hour that young Lanport on ms
way home to luncheon. discovered TWO
women carrying struggling cilltu, W.
ing hurriediy along Central Avenue. be
lieving that the child was being kidnap-=
ped the lad started in search OF q police
man He found Policeman Lowe, oil t.is
Ralph Avenue Station, in Broadway, ana
five minutes later the two women. de-
scribing themselves as Catherine Duiiy,
forty-eight years old, OF No. iu2 Aeweu
Street, and Cecilia Ackerman, Iorty-tnree
years old. of No. 100 Norman Avenue,
Greenpoint. were facing Captain Ennis III
the Ralph-Avenue Station.
The women were badly frightened, ana
fearing attack from the excited crowd
which gathered in front OF the station
house the news of the attempt at KID
mapping having got abroad, begged 'he
police to see that no harm came 10 'iiei.l.
Assured of protection. the two women toia
their story.
Mrs Duffy said she was the auas o.
the child, while Mrs. Alderman explain
ed she was its godmotirer- The mother
Of the child. they, said, had died some time
ago and her father had married second
time They had been informed. they
stated that the child was being Ill treat
er by her stepmother and they nad de-
cided TO take her, by force II necessary,
and furnish her home with either OF
them.
While the women were telling their
story, Mrs. Thompson was securing the
ne;shborhood for the child. On the advice
| of one of her neighbors, she went to
the Ealph-Averue Police Station to have
Il general alarm sent out. The first per
| son to greet her as she opened the door
| of the station was her little stepdapghter,
who ran to her with an exclamation Of
| delight, throwing her arms about her
| neck. Mrs. Thompson declared utterly
| false the statement of the two women
! that she had i'll treated her stepdaughter.
EXFERT AT PISTOL. PLAY.
More expert at pistol play than an as
| sailant. who had covered her with his
! revolver, courageous Montclair woman
| yesterday forced one man to surrender
| before her own weapon and beat Off i'll
| ignominious retreat another who had adj
vanced to the rescue of his companion
| The captured thief was a few hours later
railroaded to jail for ninety days.
| Frank Bowles and another man. whose
| identity is unknown. Rocked yesterday
| morning at the kitchen door of Mrs. J.
| Calvin Skaters home, in Somerset Ave-
| nue., Montclar, y. j., near the top of the
! first mountain, and asked the coioretl cook
| for something TO eat Mrs Shafer told
| the cook TO give the strangers good
meal, and he did,
| When they had finished eating, how
| ever, they asked the cook for money. and.
| becoming aggressive when their demands
We're refused. the coiored man called for
| Mrs. Shafer. Bowles in the meantime mad
made his way to the upper floor. his
| companion having stepped outside.
Mrs. Shafer went up stairs a few mo-
ments later and found Bowles in her
room with a revolver in his hand He
| pointed the weapon at her as she enter
| ed and demanded money.
Mrs Shafer ran screaming from the
| room, and selling another revolver. ran
! back and covered Bowles with il. As the
| cook was disarning the captive from be-
| hind the second man appeared and went
to Bowles' assistance Mrs. Shafer turn
ed her weapon upon the new intruder
who promptly tumbied down the stairs
and escaped into the mountains.
Help was summoned and Bowles was
taken before Recorder Post. who at once
imposed sentence. Bowles was in jail
half an hour later.
Mrs. Shafer, who Is the wife of d New
York business man has been highly
praised for her courage. She did not
WOMAN OF STONE.
Workmcn who were cleaning the ceil,I
OF tho house ut No. so South Ninth
street, Williamsburg. Yesterday came
across the well-preser"ed body Of (; eig
apparently about twelve years old which
had the appearance OF having been turn
ed into stone, The lower limbs were miss
ing and the appearance of the body in
dicated that it must nave been there
many years.
The remarkable discovery created ;
great sensation in the neighborhood. aut
there was talk of foul play until it wa
learned that the house was formerly TN
home of the late Thomas Holmes, ;
| noted enbamer. who embalmed the bod,
of President Lincoln
Holmes has been dead a xttle more than
| a year and Il half
The Body OF the girl was removed L
! the Ciymer-Street Police Station 1t wa
J remarkably well preserved The feature
! We're all there and the face was the fac
OF . person just dead. Time had cause,
other portions of the bots, to crumble
! The discovery of the body would seen
to prove that the assertion often made b
the aged en,balmer that he had inven,e
Il process by which he could preserve
body for many Years WAS true.
Tom Holmes, or Or Holmes. as h
| Preferred 10 pe Gated. WAS one Of In
most familiar characters in the Easter,
District for the last forty years He mad
fortune during the civil War. e.nbtln,
ing the bodies OF generals and other of
iicers killed in battle, and spent It in at
tempting TO perfect the embalnlins hui
which was designed to practically tar!
bodies INTO stone. In 1885, he anrnurce
that he had at last produced 4 au!d the
would petEify bodies
lie had for several years on exi1ibi
Ton IN his stcre IN Broadway. near Eight
Street, IN WILLIAMSBURG What ptifpocte
TO be the arm Of q young woman thu
treated but which sceptlcil paSsess5,
regarded as piece % statuary He IN,
also designed a casxef. made wholly a
glass and lighted by electricity. for~w;liei
ne made the claim that it would pEcseyrt
q cody TOR centuries. the corpse retainiRs
4 ii!eiike appearance.
ihe secret of the enbalning tluid tim
would turn the body 20 stone DE-. Holn,e.
never dirulsed. ana It died with him.
POLICE aAlUTTERINGS
Mutterings of discomfort were heard OF
every hand at Police Headquarters yes
teraay over the promotion OF john Rarrt;