The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-12
TAKEN THREE TINES
Mrs. Countryman's Little Boy Kid
mapped at St. Joseph.
THE FATHER UNDER SUSPICION
Husband and Wife Had QuarreIed-
Boy Once Rescued From q
Negro Den.

Special to The Journal.
st. Joseph, Mich, Feb. 12.-Lawrence,
the year old son of Mrs. A. ]. Country
| man, who has been victim In two SEN
sational kidnapping cases, has disappeared
for the third time from the home of his
grandparents, Mr.. and Mrs. Van Brunt, of
| this city He has not been seen since
yesterday morning. He left the house
coatless, and his whereabouts are un-
| known.
| For six years Mrs. Countryman lived in
Chicago. where her husband was employed
| In the Union Stock yards. One year ago
! they quarreled. More serious domestic
her two children, returned to this city to
live with her parents. On July the two
boys, Lawrence, and Albert, aged g. were
mysteriously stolen in broad day light
from in front of their grandfather's home
in .densely populated section Of this
city. 1t is said that the father was seen
early In the morning, and few hours
later accompanied with the children
boarded a Pere Marquette train for Chi
cago. The father at that time lived at
221 Thirty ninth street. ~
In a Negro Den.
! On Aug. Mrs Countryman received a
letter addressed in scrawling handwriting
from her missing son Albert The letter
was written on soiled envelope and babe
the mother come at once to negro den
in Forty-third street, near the Rock
island station, Chicago. p
Upon the advice of her attorneys, the
grief stricken mother departed for Chi
cago on the night boat. The following
| morning, while walking down the street
in the vicinity of the station and while
passing a tumbled-down building, two
boys suddenly jumped out and ran toward
her. They were her sons. She grabbed
th0v
running, bidding the other child to- follow
her. She had not gone over q few yards
when negro started in pursuit raising a.
hue and cry as he ran. A mob of over
hundred soon formed and followed in
the chase. Exhausted, the elder son gave
out and was captured by the mob The
crazed mother caught a car The mob
was repulsed, but they shouted to the pas
sengers on the car that the woman was
kidnapper. Several passengers jumped
forward and laid their hands on her. They
would have surrendered her to the mob
ii some of the passengers had not inter-
coded in her behalf 81
Passengers Saved Her.
The mother and child reached the
steamer in safety and boarded it for St.
Joseph. Half an hour later, just as the
boat was leaving the dock, Mr. Country
man jumped on the steamer and made
wiz ooA LUZ lie DOy, Sitting on the deck
with his mother. The woman ran scream
ing into state room and locked herself
in with the child until the boat arrived
in this city. Hundreds of passengers
sympathized with Ter and stood guard at
her door and threatened the man with
violence If he attempted to reach his wife.
After the arrival of the steamer here
Countryman disappeared in the crowd and
evidently returned to Chicago on the next
train. This was the last time Country
man was seen in this city, and it is a.
mystery as to who is responsible for the
disappearance Of the child last night.