The Jersey City news., 1902-08-04
PENALTY
OF Her SIN
Mother Separated From Her
Children at Police Head
quarters.
SCENE OF FRANTIC GRIEF
Divorce Suit Pending in
Brooklyn-Woman and Co.
Respondent Caught
in Bayonne.
SCENE OF FRANTIC GRIEF

A pathetic scene which touched the
hearts of Chief Murphy, Inspector
Archibold and Captain Mckaig was WIZ
messed in the Chiefs office at Ponce
Headquarters late Saturday night, when
a mother who had been arrested tor KID
mapping her children, a boy and girl,
was compelled to surrender her offspring
to their father, into whose custody they
had been given by Judge Gaynor OF
Brooklyn.
The woman was Mrs. Anita Fraser,
81 years old, wife of Allan Fraser, -
years old, of No. 33 Crooke street,
Brooklyn. Her children were Aline,
years old, and John, 4 years Old
Earlier in the day Fraser, who is suing
his wife for divorce, called upon Chief
Murphy and told him that he had reason
to believe that his wife, who kidnapped
the children on July Z, although Judge
Gaynor had peremptorily ordered them
to be kept in his custody pending the
trial of the suit, was living on Lexington
avenue, this city, with William Cozlne,
q Bath Beach fireman.
WARRANT SECURED.
Fraser swore out warrant before
Justice of the Peace John p. Mccormick
charging his wife with being fugitive
from Justice. and the case was placed IN
the hands of Detectives James Larklns
and Gus Hottie They located the wo-
man in Bayonne by means of her photo
graph. which was identified by Detective
Griffin, of that city. as the picture OF
woman whom he had seen on the streets
several times. They ran across her by
chance as she was coming out OF Mrs.
Martins boarding house at Avenue II
and Forty-second street, in company
with Cozine. Mrs. Fraser denied her
identity, and insisted that she was Mrs.
Cozine. Cozine claimed that his name
was Weaver. The woman broke away
from the detectives and ran into the
house of the Rev. Mr.. Mcguire, an Epis-
copal clergyman. She was found partly
dressed in a bedroom on the second floor,
and begged frantically to be allowed to
keep her children She was placed un-
der arrest and was arraigned before Re
Police Headquarters in this city.
Cosine was not arrested, no complaint
having been lodged against him.
A SAD SCENE.
Mrs. Fraser did not get much SYM
pathy from her husband while she was
in the Chiefs office. She clung to her
little girl, who cried bitterly and begged
her mother not to let her father take
her away. The child wildly protested
that 'she loved mamma best'' and could
not live away from her. The little boy,
worn out by much weeping, fell asleep in
his mothers arms.
Fraser did not disguise the fact that
he was delighted over the idea of taking
his children away from their mother.
He said that she was not the proper
kind of woman to have charge OF them.
While Mrs. Fraser was crying over the
little ones and bemoaning her fate, a
coach was driven up to the door. Then
came heartrending scene as the mother
bade the children good by. The police
officials, accustomed as they are to dis
tressing sights, were obliged to turn their
backs and there was more than sus-
picion of tears in their eyes.
Little Aline twined her arms around
her mothers neck and sobbed as if her
heart would break.
sOr, mamma" she cried, "don't let
them take me away from you. l don't
want to go with papa. o, please, Mr.. Po-
iceman, let me stay with my mamma" !"
THE PARTING.
Mrs. Fraser nearly went into Mysteries
She begged and pleaded for permission
to keep her children little longer, but
her husband, who had been wronged SO
terribly, was inexorable Finally a
woman who had accompanied Mrs. Fra
scr to Police Headquarters, took the girl
by the hand and led her downstairs to
the cab, followed by Fraser, who carried
the sleeping boy in his arms.
The father placed the children in the
cab, jumped in after them and the cab
man whipped up the horses. The cab
crossed the ferry and was driven over the
bridge to Brooklyn.
About FIVE minutes after it left Mrs.
Fraser was paroled. She left headquar-
ters with the woman.
1t is understood that Fraser did not
care to prosecute his wife for kidnapping
after recovering possession of his chill
dren.