New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-11
THINK CHILD WAS STOLEN
Little Girl Tnuited aboard Railroad
Barge Missing.

In the disannearance of Katherine Bilquin,
seven years old. there are indications of a kid
mapping and this is the view that Victor Bill
quin, the chld's father, who is bartender en-
ployed at No. 32S Second-ave. and living at NO
go East sixteenth-st insists is the correct one.
With her sister, Annie. nine years old, and
another little GIRL Katherine Sunday afternoon
went TO the recreation pier at East Twenty
fourth-st After playing around there for some
time the three children went to q pier at East
Twenty-first-st., according to Annie Bilquin.
Tied I'D at the Twenty-f1rst-st pier sew
eral barges Annie Bilquin says that while they
we're playing around this pier man on barge
called them aboard. They went. and the man.
whom they took to be the captain Of the barge,
appeared to take great fancy to Katherine
He fondled her, sat her his knee and made
great fuss over the little girl.
The children amused themselves about the
barge for some time till the gave Annie
nickel and told her to go with the other child
to buy some candy. Annie obeyed, leaving lit
tie Katherine the barge. When, about
o'clock they returned and asked for Katherine,
the man told them she had gone home some
time before. On reaching her home Annie Bill
quin asked if Katherine had reached there before
her, Mrs Bilquin replied in the negative and
Annie told the story OF the man on the barge.
Mrs. Bilquin summoned her husband. and with
Annie the parents Of the children went TO the
pier at East Twenty first-st. The barge was
there, but no one was it. Then the Bilquins
went to the East Twenty-second-st. station.
The police there said the child had probably
fallen into the river. Accepting this as the
probable solution, the child's parents went
sorrowfully home.
Yesterday however, the parents returned TO
the river front and saw Francis Murphy, the
Waterman at the Twenty-first-st. pier. He told
them in his opinion it was impossible that the
child could have fallen overheard and been
drowned at 5 o'clock in the afternoon without
some one knowing something about it. The
Bilquns told him the story Annie Bilquin had
told about the the barge, and an ex-
ticular boat. 1t was missing. Murphy said
that the only craft not there, and which had
been there the previous day. was Barge No 81.
of the Delaware. Lackawanna and Western
Railroad Company. This vessel. he believed,
had gone to Hoboken.
Then the Bilquins went down to Police Head
quarters and caused general alarm to be sent
out for their missing child. She is described as
having brown eyes. red hair and d fair COM
plexion. When she disappeared she wore a
blue and white dress, black stockings and lace
shoes. Detectives of the East Twenty-second-
st. station have been placed on the case, and
are trying to find the barge which disappeared.
Detective McNulty, of the East Twenty-second-st.
station, made search of all the barges in the river
around Twenty-second-st., to If the little girl
mad slowed away, but he found trace of her. He
did not find out just where Barge No. 81 of the
LackaWanna road, had been taken.