The Jersey City news., 1902-06-13
KIDNAPPED
GIRL FOUND
Stolen From Hoboken IL
Years Ago She Was
Thought Dead.
TAKEN 10 CHICAGO
Learns Identity From Words
Dropped in Delirium by
Supposed Mother.

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Mrs. Michael Nathan, Of No. z5 Jefferson
street. New York. expects today to be
united 10 her daughter Mary. who was
stolen from her twelve years ago in Ho-
boken.
Everyone believed the girl was dead.
She was only a mite of four years and a
Grippe when she disappeared one after
noon as completely as IL the earth had
| swallowed her. Thc police said she had
wandered off to the marshes and was
drowned Only the rosner had faith that
her little one. was alive and the hope she
as cherished all tese years in her ,onely
child.ess home is at length rewarded
Today the girl, babe no longer, will
return and for the first time realize the
sweetness OF a real mothers love Mich
ael Nathan, the father. is bringing the
girl from Chicago, where he was united
with her yesterday. Their meeting was
followed BY an immediate start for this
city.
The delirium Of a conscience stricken
woman is responsible for the solution Of
this remarkable Kidnapping mystery On
Monday last Mr.. Nathan received a letter
signed BY a Mrs. Nathaniel Bloom, of
Englewood, III. suburb Of Chicago She
wrote that she had reason to believe that
she was the long lost child Mary Nathan.
Until few weeks ago. the girl be-
| lieved she was Mary Green and ac-
cepted the woman with whom she had
lived for many years. at No 1s4 New
York Street Aurora H., as her mother
Recently, although only sixteen years or
age She married Nathaniel Bloom, car
pet dealer, A few weeks after the we'd
ding, Mrs. Green fell i'll and the girl nurs-
ed her III her delimium the woman be-
trayed the fact that Mary was not her
! daughter. From other things said in her
rawlings, the girl inferred that she had
been Kidnapped. When Mrs. Green re-
covered Mrs Bloom confronted her with
what she had disclosed and the woman
confessed.
| Mrs Bloom wrote at once to her father
and he hurried without a days delay to
/ Chicago to meet her. He had no difficulty
identifying her. Father and daughter arc
said to bear striking resemblance to
each otehr.
The disappearance Of little Mamie Ma
than was one of the most mysterious
cases the police Of the Metropolitan dis
trist ever worked upon.
After weeks of the most persistent in
vestigation and the dragging of the
meadows and other waters near Ho-
boken the police came to the conclusion
the girl had been drowned. The mother,
Mrs Mary Nathan, never believed this.
4 clairyoyant told Mrs. Nathan heI
child had been kidnapped. The clairvoy-
ant went into a trance and described &
vision she said She was seeing. She tolt
of a woman who came along past th'
house The little girl recognized her anC
he'd out her hands TO her The woman
earessed her and picked Fer up in ne
arms.
On August 6. 1890 little Mamie was play
ing on the stoop OF her parents resi-
dence, No. 20 Jefferson street, Hoboken
Her mother, Mrs. Mary Nathan, saw tbs
child at four O'Clock in the afternoon
and fifteen minutes later she had disap
peared as suddenly and mysteriously a:
if the earth had opened and swallowed
her. None Of the children in the neigh
borhood knew what had become of her
ana no person was found who saw hel
leave the stoop.
Her parents kept a small crockery stor'
at No. 153 FIRST street not block ava;
from their home. The husband worked
in this city during the day while Mrs
sr,4hs,r 1aalxsd after the store few
years after rheir little girls loss tn
. parents moved to Brooklyn, where the,
lived at No. 2 McI<ibben street. Mrs
Nathan from the FIRST had strong belle
that her little girl had been kidnapped
and she said to a reporter when the polici
of The whole codntry were searching To-
the missing child that she was eeenfiden
/ Mamie was allve-