Albuquerque daily citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1895-1903, 1902-07-17
BOY KIDNAPPED.
Sensation in Las Vegas-Train No,
In a Wreck.
ELECTRIC STREET CAR LINE.
Special Correspondence

was considerable music in the air over
on Jackson venue about s o'clock
last night. A boy had been kidnapped.
James Cropsey and wife, together with
their 3 year old son. have been dwell
ing in peace at R~omeroville. where
the husband has farming interests.
About two weeks ago, Mrs. Cropsey
took the o and came up to Las Vegas
for a visit, staying with Mrs. Booth
down on Railroad avenue. 1t seems
there has been some trouble between
the husband and wife and he claims
she took the child away from him and
would not even let him see the boy,
even keeping him locked up to keep
the father from getting possession of
the child. Yesterday evening about
1880 the father, who had come up from
Romeroville, secreted himself in the
Chinese laundry next to Mrs. Booths
and lay in wait for the boy to come
out. The boy came owe lear the out
side fence and the father vaulted the
fence, seized the child and made away
with him to his quarters on Jackson
avenue. The father in kidnapping the
child is said to have acted on legal ad-
vice. as possession counts for consid-
cradle. The mother saw the boy taken
and started to yell. Accompanied by
Mrs. Booth and a crowd that the rum
pus soo raised, she went over to the
house on Jackson avenue and tried to
get in, meanwhile having sent for all
the police in the ciCy and was looking
for a constable and Judge Wooster in
the bargain. She tried to batter in the
door, and in general raised old Ned.
Mr.. Cropsey stationed himself up
stairs with a six shooter and vowed
he would make a corpse of anyone
that entered. No one entered. After
seeing she could not get possession of
the child, she gave up the row and
swore out a warrant against her hus-
band on the charge of abandonment
and other things and the hearing was
set for 3 o'clock this afternoon. 1t is
hard to tell just who is in the right.
Some think the father is a more prop
er custodian for the boy; some think
otherwise. The boy seems to prefer
the father. Anyway, the neighborhood
had excitement while the fun lasted.
At the time for the appearance at
the court this afternoon. it had been
decided by the prosecution to post
pone the case un.-l next Wednesday
afternoon, and the chances are that
the case will not even come up again.
The reason is that the wife seems to
have done the abandoning instead of
the husband. whom she had arrested
on that complaint. The husband says
that she left him, and despite his en-
treaties and his sending a carriage af-
ter her to bring her home she would
noC come, and he cannot see how she
can accuse MIN of abandonment.
NJ. C,-NaA.. .,4z ar,ozt1I 1..4 .g-tN
at 1926 and is under $500 appearance
bonds. The husband las the child still
and intends to keep him, he says. The
couple seem to be separated for keeps.
and there is hardly a possibility of
their resuming a joint ownership of
the disputed lad, at least not anyways
soon. The wife and her sister, Mrs.
Boone. are very bitter against the
husband and there may be yet some
thing more to chronicle before the end
has come. 1t was a circus for the
neighbors.
Ex-Governor Prince was here yester-
day, returning in the evening to Santa
Fe. He came up to see Hon. Charles
A. Spiess on some legal matters.
Mrs. E. G. Austen is quite sick at
her home.
Hon. ]. S. Clark lei. yesterday even
ing for Albuquerque to see a few
friends and talk politics
Adjutant General Whiteman passed
through here 'en route to see his wife,
who is quite sick.
Mrs. Gene Moyes came in from Ri
bera yesterday with a sick child. She
is staying at her mothers, Mrs. Morri-
sons. The child grew worse after she
arrived here and the husband was tele-
graphed for.
Train No. 1 had a little mix up yes
terday soon after leaving here and
while running between here and Ojita
and Sulzbacher. The track was in bad
condition and out of line and the for
ward trucks of the engine jumped the
tracks and cut up about 600 ties, be-
sides delaying the train nearly two
hours. No particular damage was done
further than tearing up the ties.
A number of Spanish-American resi-
dents will have a social hop at Rosen-
thai hall tonight.
The oil well at Ration is now down
over 500 feet and going toward china
as fast as the power can carry the
drill. The company operating the well
think they have a sure thing in it, and
iiuiNoNiOio Itl luillg uO punt lIdI way
as rock is brought up that is strongly
impregnated with oil, in fact the oil
will ooze out of the rock in sufficient
quantities TO saturate paper so that ii
can be burned. Trinidad, Colo, also
has some fine prospects near their
city, and there bids fair TO be a regu-
lar oil boom throughout this part of
the country in the near future.
Some of our imaginative friends in
town say they saw Tracey, the outlaw.
meandering around here. They failed
TO explain how he could get down from
Washington TO this place in so short
a time. We will put this story in the
album with the sea serpent tales.
Hugh Wilson, of Clayton, evidently
Is a hard loser. He likes TO flirt with
the roulette wheel and indulge in the
seductive three card monte games, but
as he lost s1,450 in the latter game
while playing with John F. Wolford in
Clayton, he now calls on the law to
helm him raCovar that amount and hos