The sun., 1900-04-10
FIGHT FOR TINY VOYAGER.
TROUBLE AHEAD FOR 4 LITTLE BOY
COMING HERE ON THE LAIN.

Woman with u Past Claims Him m a
Founding She Adopted Ont West-Hcr
Husband says She stole tho boy From
Wealthy Psrents-Each Wants Him.
One OF the passengers on the North German
Lloyd steamer Lahn. which II due here on
Thursday. is lad y years old who answers TO
the name of Benny Fecker. lie is making
tho long Journey all by himself. In care
Of the stewardess OF the ship. into
whose care no was given by some Germans OF
Bremen. relatives OF the man whom the LAD
calls father. For the possession OF the litt's
traveller. when he arrives, man and woman
will invoke the law, II necessary. although
neither. BY the admission OF both. has any
legal claim TO him,
The man II Charles Conrad Fecker. CHI
rorodst OF 362 West Fifty-thIrd street. and the
woman IL Amber Belle Fecker. his vile. who
gives her address az \ Fast Twent-eighth
street Fecker says that his wife told him she
had kidnapped the boy from wealthy parents In
Wisconsin several years before their mar
riage. His wife. he says, IL an Inn
moral person. UNIT to have tho care of
the child and he wants to keep the little
fellow or turn him over to the Gerry society.
pending tho result OF an attempt on his part
to find H. aas en and ssI'ore SSns Gm asn,s
her husbands allegation OF lnporan'y
and asserts that she took the lad from 2
iolndine asylum IN Mliwshhsee ,n,hor,,iss: " rn:
OF the institution, but admits that no adoption
papers were drawn W and no document u "a
TO show hat she nas AK her hSs
band cannot support hmsef TO say notnlng
of supporting a child. She purposes. through
her LAWYER Ge2rae toSaY N9S1n'an or OF 10 writ Of
eSsti corpus "a s'Ts SSsI
f Fecss9 ns says eSs Ss Will aOp w Similar % .s
serve on his wife, should she become the pos.
SCISSOR OF tho boy. but he has taken certain
anybody but himself will ge, the lad when he
Feeker doesn't pretend to know the li,te iEl,
Feandsso F. %%Trsa Sn JUN. hs fss ws ana that
Fecker had the boy then. When he
Charles Hamilton Of Chicago, Later, Fecker
says, she told him that the lads father p.,r,.n was
Sho %fr lissI rssG"q IN SqT MWanG Gse % sn% s later
he says. she confessed to having kidnapped
the lad. either in Illinois or Wisconsin lie
ing when he married her, 4 that she was IN
dcted in San Francisco Tor attemp pting TO black
mail Col. William $. Sutherland. az Englisn
~
broadway: that she was arrested for check
raising In Wisconsin aud that she has been the
mistress OF various men since she came to New
York last spring
Bv her own admission Mrs. ,Fecker has
kosh, Wis, thirty.two years ago: that
her mother was Amber Belle Cannon,
and that she always understood that
her father was the late Joseph Stringham.
once Mayor OF Oshkosh wealthy man. who
died about four months ago She says that
her frat husband Was DR. Charles Ham mOnu OF
Chicago to whom she was married in Chicago.
In February, 1886 Dr. Hammond. she says,
died eight months after their marriage
and on Feb. 27, 1894 she was
married to John Ballborn, commercial
traveller. living near Milwaukee. She
isnt positive that Ballborn Is dead.
but. she says that her toster-mother. q Mrs.
Seattle In January, 1893, that Ballborn had
committed suicide ~ shooting himself in the
head Then she drifted to San Francisco and
WAS married To- Fecker. who was in the real
estate business there.
She says. regarding the boy. that. because
l1lll .aa.la IA uh. hal In