The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1900-04-28
ABANDONED
THE CHARGE.
W. F.tiammoud and Carrie
Brown Arrested in
Greenport.

| New York, April rs. Baby Frank Farry.
! the wait whom Wilbur +. Hammond said
| ho found in tho Twenty third STREET ferry
| house last Tuesday, will be brought from
| Randnlls Island this morning and shown
| In jefferson Market Cuurl. II is more
| than likely this will be The last limo the
blue-eyol boy will called by the namo be-
| slowed upon him by SuporInten lent
| Blair of the Out Door Poor Department,
1t ia said evidence will bo offered in
court to prove that jnst after the Christ
mas holidays the baby was christened in
Wilmington, DEL, as Wilbur Francis
Harluns worth Other evidence which
Superin Blair believes will clear
away nearly all the mystery in tho case
will to produced. Possibly the Identity
of the parents of tho baby will be dis
closed,
In Greenrort, l.. J., yesterday, Central
Oilico Detectives Reiuy and Armstrong
arrested Wilbur Francis Hammond tie
inwcer, and Miss Caroline H. Brown
identified by the cabman as THE woman
with green skirt" who drove with Ham
mond aud tho baby from tho Twenty.
til RI street ferry to the New York Found
ing Asylum The charge against thom is
abandonment, a violation OF Section as7
of tho Penal Code,
lhey we.o brought to this city aud
reached Police Headquarters at z o'clock
last night. Miss Brown said she was SO
years Id, Hammond said he was d. With
them were Judge Keeves of Suffolk Coun.
ty and former Assistant District Attorney
David Welch as counsel; Captain Orrln
Brown of Grteupoit. tho fathoa of tho
young woman, and EIw rd e. Hammond,
the son of the jewe'er. She lawyers au-
viseu their clients to make no statements
for publication. and the pri. oners obeyet1.
Superintendent Blair went to Jefferson
Market Court on Thursday afteruCo on land
secured the warrants for tho arrest of
Hammond and Miss Brown Immediately
Detectives Reidy and Armstrong took the
Long Island Railroad train for Riverhpai
where they stopped over night and obtain.
cd the signature OF County, Judge Reeve
to the wnrrants They picked up Shsritt
Wells thero also, and yesterday morning
all moved upon Greenport. On the ar
rival Of the first train from this city they
were joined By Two of superin endent
Blair's Investigators who had with them
Thomas Mcdonald, the cabman.
Tho party went first to the residence of
Captain Qrrin Brown in Front street. 1t
Is u small house not far from Browns
hardware store The officers wore refused
ai!ms ion a. first until tho sheriff in u
terrible voice demanded 'In the name of
the law." Then tho door Of the COT tage
was oponod and Miss Browa appeared.
Mcdonald. the cab driver. identified her
ns Hummonds companion in the drive
from the iorry to tho FounGling Hospital,
She denied everything. Whiio she retired
to her homo to dress for the trip to this
city Dotcctive Armstrong went 10 Ham
mun0's jowo!ry store No s.! Main street,
and served his warrant. Said Hammond:
~ am the victim of some designing wo-
man who placed that child on tho gang
way just whero ! would stumble over it.''
Hammond says. 1t seems to mo a case
Of mistaken idea ity All around, and ask
tho people of New York and more espec.
ialv the people of Grccnport, l.. l., to su =
pend judgment
/ Miss Brown was released on bail late
last night Her father md Magistrate
Pool appeared at the Mercer strcoL station
with Grant Nichols, q builder of No.
2l23 Madison avenue, who gave surety for
So. 0C0 for the $1,000 bail, under which
Miss Brown waS held.