The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1900-06-22
SAYS THE CHILD WAS KIDNAPPED
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dealer. Then it was that she related
her remarkable experience to her aunt,
her parents being still out looking for
ner.
According to the little girl, she was
approached Oy a man while standing
on the station platform waiting for her
mother. He asked her to go with him
for. a ride, promising her some candy
and nuts, and the next thing she knew
they were seated in hack, the
stranger having caught her by the hand
and taken her to the vehicle, half
against her viii.
Woman In the Case.
While they were in the carriage, the
girl says, a strange woman came to the
door end spoke hurriedly to the man.
He gave the driver a word, and they
drove rapidly up Second South street,
leaving the woman at the station. How
far they went or how long they were
riding, Ellen cannot tell, but the man
kept his word in giving her the candy.
Presently she began to cry, being
frightened at leaving her parents. She
says they got down by the Salt Pal
ace and that she heard some music.
She pleaded to be allowed to go home,
but her companion tried to quiet her,
and at one time put his hand over her
mouth.
II got out, though" said the little
girl "Once at funeral mamma
showed me how to open the door of the
mack, and when he wasn't looking,
opened it and jumped out. He didn' t
try TO catch me. but he went on fast.
/ was crying and didn't know how to
rot !
asked me where l lived and said he'd
take me home. I told him l was lost.
Then l got in his wagon and we came
home"
The junk dealer Strang when seen at
him home, SOS West Second North
street last night. was very much sur
prised to hear that the girl had been
abducted
Junk Mans Story.
'I was co2ning out of the junk yard
on Eighth South between Main and
State" said he. when l saw another
junk man who had preceded me a
couple of yards talking to the little
girl who was going towards Main
street from State. She was almost hys-
terical, crying pitifully. 1 asked what
was the matter and she said she had
lost her mother. I thought she and her
mother might have been down at the
Salt Palace, but she said no, that she
had been looking all over town for her
mother.
THE girl couldn't tell where she
lived, but she said her uncle was work
ing at the Rio Grande Western. Then
got her to get into the wagon and
drove down towards the depot with
the intention of finding him. When we
got to Fourth West she recognized the
street. and 1 drove her up to the door.
4 heard the girl say to a lady there
that she lost her mamma at the depot,
and that a man took her into his
buggy and bought her some candy, but
l had no idea the girl had been kid
mapped. From the way she talked she
had wandered down there looking for
her mother. She told me nothing about
the man in the case, and / saw nobody
around besides her"
The Suspected Parties.
Mr. and Mrs. Crowther believe that
the perpetrators of the attempt were
man who was on the train and a
woman who met him at the depot The
man is described as wearing blue
check suit, rather tall and fine look
ing, and of dark complexion. The
costume, also blue She was rather
f1eshy and of more than ordinary
height, but nevertheless beautiful, as
Mrs. Crowther remembers. her.
When we got on the train at Go
shen" said Mrs. CrOwther, this man
sat in the seat opposite us, and he
hardly took his eyes from Ellen, but
whenever I loked in his direction, he
seemed to avoid seeing me. As we got
off the train, he met the woman and
they stood only a couple of feet from
us on the platform. When l left to go
after the baggage, the woman was
right behind Ellen and the man was
right in front of her. AS they stood,
it would not have been difficult for
them to have got the girl away with
out the other children noticing it.
Sudden Disappearance.
But the strange part of it was their
sudden disappearance. Ellen could not
have walked in any direction and got
out of sight in the time we were away
from them. When we came out, the
child and the man and woman had all
disappeared as though the earth had
opened and swallowed them. [ tell you
we were mighty glad to see Ellen at
home that afternoon"
Mr.. CrOwther worked all day yeSteT-
day on the mystery, and he shows a
determination to find the man whom he
thinks carried his little girl away. He
is at loss to know the motive that in
spired it, having no enemies that he
would suspect. Ellen is pretty as a
picture, however, and the police are
inclined 20 believe that if the man had
any intention of abducting her, it was
because the woman wanted to take
the little girl away. 1t is possible, they
say. that the kidnapper relented at
seeing the girls tears, but more likely
that he was frightened at her cries.
Former Attempt at kidnapping.
Some months ago there was a vii
famous attempt to abduct a little girl
on the east drive, the fellow seizing
her while she was on her way home
and forcing her into a buggy. She
jumped out at seeing some friends
near the Road house on State street
1t is not believed that the two cases
have any connection. That of yester-
day was a great deal more daring, il