The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-05-30
KIDNAPPED HIS SON
is THE CHARGE AGAINST ENGI-
NEER EDWIN MUIR.
HEARING SET FOR TO-DAY.
MRS. MUIR FOLLOWED HIM TO
NEW YORK WITHOUT SUCCESS.

Sequel to the Story Told Here a Lit
tie over "A Week Ago on the Ocean
Steamship Wharves Contention
Over Possession OF Little Edwin
Muir Assistant Engineer Muir
Came Back Yesterday on City of
Memphis and Was Met on Wharf
by Omcer-LittIe Boys Location
Not known.
A little more than week ago there
was a scene on the wharves of the
Ocean Steamship Company just pre-
vious to the sailing of the steamship
City of Memphis for New York. Mrs.
Edwin Muir, very much distressed, ap-
peared on the dock and insisted that
her son, a boy 8 years of age, had
been taken from his school and fore
IDLY carried on board the boat by his
father. She was not allowed on the
boat, but was told to get a warrant, if
possible, and return. With the proper
papers she would be allowed to search
the vessel.
Mrs. Muir, after some trouble, Sc
cured a warrant and went back to the
wharves, only to find that the City of
Memphis had sailed.
The second chapter of the story was
enacted in New York. for Mrs. Muir
accompanied by her sister. hurried
there when finding herself fooled in
Savannah. She arrived in advance of
the City of Memphis and consulted
with the New York police. She was
recommended to an attorney and when
legal advice was secured it was to
the effect that scene on the wharf
would only add to her troubles, instead
of relieving them. The law was ex-
planned to her and she left within a
day or two for Baltimore, where she
had reason to think the boy might be
sent. There also she met legal OBJ
stacles and the advice given was that
she return to Savannah and take out
a warrant for her husband.
The City of Memphis arrived in Sa-
vannah yesterday at about 8 o'clock,
and on the wharf was waiting a con-
stable with a warrant, authorizing the
arrest of Assistant Engineer Muir,
charging him with kidnapping. The
papers were issued from the office of
Justice Charles V. Hohenstein, and
when Muir appeared he was placed I'M
der bond of $500 to appear for pre-
liminary examination at IL o'clock to-
daV.
Mrs. Muir was not present at the
time her husband appeared, but will be
on hand to-day, and no doubt the in
vestigation will be interesting. She
has secured counsel and said that there
was every reason to believe that she
would get her boy back again.
The couple had been married about
ten years, but separated some months
ago. Mrs. Muir took the boy and he
20 he was taken from st. Patrick s
School by his father, and hurried on
board the City of Memphis. Mrs. Muir
now thinks that the child IS in Balti-
more with a relative of Mr. Muir
She seems to have no desire to annoy
the father, but believes that she has
a right to the child and says she will
do anything in her power to get him
back.
Muir had nothing to say in the mat
ter and gave the required bond to ap-
pear in the Justices court this morn
ing. The general impression seems to
be that the mother should have the
child, as he is yet of tender age. The
matter of guardian papers, it now ap-
pears, was in reference to the invest
ment of some small legacy left to the
boy, the conditions naming Mr.. Muir
as executor. Mrs. Muir says that she
was appointed guardian to her boy
four years or more ago, for the purpose
of making a bank account for him, and
that she now has money deposited in
one of the city banks that stands to
his credit through her