New-York tribune., 1902-07-02
MAD RACE WITH CHILD.
EXCITING EPISODE IN THE
JENNLSON CASE.
PROCESS SERVER IN AUTOMOBILE. HAS
A LONG CHASE AFTER WIFE AND
DAUGHTER IN A COACH


carriage and stepped in herself. She was fol-
lowed by the tall man. The door of the car
riage had hardly closed when two young men
dashed across the street and attempted to open
the door.
Drive on there as fast as you can came the
mans voice from within the carriage, and, the
driver, whipping up his horses the vehicle
dashed down Broadway. The young men stood
still moment, bewiIdered. and then ran back
across the street TO where an electric cab was
standing
Say there, cabby!" shouted one follow
that rig as fast you can, and don't lose sight
OF it,"
The speaker jumped into the vehicle. followed
by his companion. Putting much power
as he could and still control the machine,
the driver sped down Broadway after the coach,
The street is badly torn up account of the
tunnel excavation, and the two vehicles flying
over the ground, had many narrow escapes.
But the horses were fresh and dashed along at
breakneck speed. Once in a while head would
show out of the coach window and a woman
would cry out:
Drive on faster faster. Don't let them catch
us"
AS the coach approached the Circle, at Fifty
ninth-st. woman put her head out of the
window and called out:
"Oh, where are the police: where the po-
1ice2 They must save the child"
There was not a policeman in sight, and the
coach turned into Eighth-ave.
Drive to a police station, quick!" called out
the mans voice.
When the coach reached Forty-seventh-st. -st
three hundred people were following II, and the
automobile was in its wake. A moment later
the exhausted horses were drawn up in front
of the West Forty-seventh-st. station, and the
party alighted. The young woman picked up
the child, and ran through the doorway and
through the gate TO the sergeants room. There
she sank into chair. and. clasping the child
tighter in her arms. called out:
"OH, SAVE HER. SAVE HER"
"oh. save her! Please save her! They are
trying to kdnap my darling!"
AS she was speaking the two young men
tered the station. One of them. running over
10 the rail. tried to get inside. He had some
papers in his hand, and called out:
Il am a process server, and want to serve
this woman with these papers,"
Sergeant Farrell, who was at the desk, had
sprung from his seat when the woman ran be-
hind the rail, and as the young m5sl attempted
10 push his way in the sergeant held him by
the arm
Putting the girl the chair the woman
walked forward.
Don't let him kidnap my little erl?' she
pleaded. He has been following me for many |
ing that she would be taken"
BE calm a moment, madam" said Farrell |
politely, mo harm will to your little girl |
while you are in this house. We are here to
protect people. Now, why does this man want
your chld?"
Before she could answer the young man spoke
mp:
This woman has separated from her hus-
band and refuses TO let him see the child. I
compelling her to produce the child in court
and all 1 want to do is TO serve the papers"
Are you willing to let him serve the papers,
rnadam?" asked Farrell.
NO." she said he only wants my little
girl"
Then the tall man stepped up TO the rail and
began to talk with the woman. An argument
ensued in which the sergeant the process
server. the tall and the woman engaged,
and it was finally agreed that the woman should
accept service of papers condition that the
process server did not take the child.
The woman told Sergeant Farrell that she
Mrs. Elizabeth D. Jennison and that she lived
at the Hotel Bingham. The child with her was
her daughter Alice five years old The tall man
said he was George II. Massey, of No. 121l
Broadway, Brooklyn, and represented the law
firm Of Blandy. Foody q Shipman NO Wall
St. attorneys for Mrs. Jennison.
Tke two young men said they were Louis D.
Hart a clerk in the Office of CORDOBA & Nathan.
v,
nison. broker. who lives at the University
club, ana Richard d. Dunn, Of No. 345 West
Forty-seventh-st., process server
STATEMENT OF THE PROCESS SERVER.
Mrs Jennison and her party returned TO their
carriage and drove away, Mrs. Jennison hug
.ing the little girl tightly to her breast. Dunn
in speaking of the case said:
Some time ago Mrs. Jennison and her husband
separated. ne retaining possession OF the child. l
them. About two weeks ago Mrs Jennison kid
napPed the cRa ag9 rous S his Bng
got a writ OF habeas corpus from the Supreme
Court Court o6 ne we were apsid that she Would ID
try to take the child out Of town and out of the
ana nysef have been watching her hotel for sew
eral days. Once or twice had almost placed the
papers in her hands when she euded me- She is
Tonight I watching the hotel when saw
her come out with MI Massey the child and the
nurse and get into the coach I was afraid that
she would get to The station and board train be
the auto Il was the en- most sn, exciting chase have
trying 10 serve papers
Frank E. Jennison is member Of the firm of
Dunscomb & Jennison. brokers, at No. 2 Wall
ST His wife is suing for a separation. She
obtained order Of court for $50 a week ali
mony. The father was allowed to see the child
q short time each week. Jennison got possess
sion of the child and left the city about June 10
On June 20 Mrs. Jennison retook the child from
her husband at Indian Harbor, near Greenwich,
Conn
The policeman who last night escorted Mrs
Jennison and her party to the carriage at the
station, said after they had driven away that
the driver had orders TO go 10 the Grand Central
Station.
A clerk OF the Hotel Bingham last night de-
clared that Mrs. Jennison had not lived there
for three weeks, although she had been in the
hotel and in the neighborhood frequently. She
formerly lived at the Alclyde apartment house
Ntnety-fourth-st and Central Park West hut
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