Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1902-05-19
rAYLoRs PROMINENT IN OHIO.
Governor Kept Grandmother and
Dauuhter from Penitentiary.

is more Iudu usually AACSI SollAS Oh az
count of the prominence of the Tay-
Tor family in Ohio, which has been
excited over the case almost from one
end of the state to the other.
1t seems that the trouble really be-
gan over the marriage Of Albert Y.
Taylor, of Cincinnati, to young girl
only 16 years old, who was reared in
the Xenia soldiers and sailors
orphan home. His family bitterly OPP
posed the marriage, which occurred in
1894, and the relations between the
young wife and her husbands people
were so strained that Mr.. and Mrs.
Taylor moved from Fernbank, the
Cincinnati suburb in which they were
living, across the river to Bellevue,
KY. While Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor were
living in Fernbank little Margaret
went to visit her grandmother. At
the end of the day her mother sent for
her, but her grandmother and aunts
would not let her go until the village
marshal compelled them to give up
the child.
On July 13, 1898, Margaret again
visited her grandmother. Her aunts
and grandmother say that they at that
time took her to doctor, and that
after an examination the doctor said
she had been injured
Soon after this time the grand
mother wrote to her son and asked
him to allow little Margaret to visit
her again: So the father brought
the child over to Cincinnati with him
on August 8, 1898, and the grand
mother called for Margaret at Mr..
Taylor's office, in Central avenue.
That day was the last time either Mr..
or Mrs. A. V. Taylor has seen their
child.
She was to have been returned to
them the next day by her aunt, Miss
Frances l.. Taylor. The father
complained on the evening Of August
of the aunt's neglect in failing to
bring her to town. He was put off
from day to day, until August %,
when he went to his mothers home.
in Fernbank, and found that his sis
ter Clara had taken his daughter
away
In September the father brought
habeas corpus proceedings for the re
covery of the child, but his action was
dismissed because the child could not
be found within the county. In the
spring of 1900 the case was brought to
the notice of the grand jury, and on
April IA Mrs. Frances l.. Taylor, the
child's grandmother, and Miss
Frances L. Taylor, Margaret's aunt,
were indicted on two separate charges
one of kidnapping and the other Of
child stealing They were not brought
to trial until this spring.
Their trial lasted five days before
Judge John P. Murphy. The jury
found them guilty of child stealing,
crime which by statute in Ohio is
punis liable by imprisonment for from
one TO 90 years. Judge Murphy SEN
fenced them each to one year in
prison. On April II they were taken
to Columbus and registered in the
penitentiary. On the same day Gov
ernor Nash granted them reprieves for
so days.
nent in Ohio and for a quarter of a
century the closest political relations
have existed between Col. Henry Tay
lor and Governor Nash. Colonel
Taylor presented Governors Nash's
name to the republican state conven-
ton both times that he was nomi
mated, and Colonel TayIor's brother
EnunrrnY
Nash's campaign when he ran for pro
scouting attorney of Franklin county.
Colonel Taylor is now judge-advOcat
on the governors personal staff.
Margaret Taylor and another aunt, )
Miss Clara Taylor, have at last been
located in an Italian town. When
Miss Frances Langworthy Taylor was
informed of the finding in Italy of her
sister Clara and her little niece she
was greatly affected and impulsiveIy
told the story of the causes which
led up to the abduction. Between
sobs she said that there was no plan
to abduct the little one, but that her
taking away was the result of the
mother having taught little Margaret
improper practices.
The two sisters, with their mother,
had taken the child out for an airing,
and while in Burnet Woods, Cincin-
natl Miss Clara had proposed to take
the little girl to Peoria, H., to get
her away from the mothers influence
until some legal action could be had
looking to that end. The start was
made without a thought of a pro-
Ionged absence and without the
on the part of the other
two Taylor women that the child was
to be taken out of the country.
Miss Frances Taylor said she had
not known where the child was I'M
til now. They had received two let
-ers from New York, but nothing
more. She said she could not bring
herself to tell the story when she was
being tried on account of it's I'M
natural features. Miss Taylor insists,
however, that the story she tells is