The evening world., 1905-11-13
WHY WEE KITTY
KIDNAPPED BABY.
Six-year-old Catharine Dolan
Tells How She Came
to Steal Child.
FOUND 1T AT A STORE.
China Marie Was in Hospital and
Here Was a Real Live
Dollie.
FOUND IT AT A STORE.
By NixoIa Greeley Smith.

Catharine Dolan, Of No. 4S6 Graham
avenue, Brooklyn, is six years old,
blond blue.eyed ana wistful Her
doll, Marie, Is a third as old, but she
has seen rouole, Which, after all,
should surprise no one For the lives
OF dolles, In a family Oo,stIng OF three
little boys, as the DolAns DO is brief
and full Of vicissitudes.
Last year MarIe's long golden curls
came of as the result OF rather rough
handling by Buster" Dolan, but Cath
arlne, her mamma, learned how TO keep
the curls On with cap strings tied un-
der her porcelain ca!n. And every
thing weat well til last Friday, whom
Maries great blue eyes closed forever,
a, the result Of a broken spring IN the
back Of her ucad,
Then there was des1latlon IN the house
Of Dolan. Catharlno wept for her sight
less offspring, and at Il iteryals he? wall
ing was reinforced by Grace Dolan fvei
James Doan. four; John Dolan, three,
ami Buster Dolan, two. The wailirg did
not cease TIL Catharines papa an
nounced that he would take Marie TO
the hospital and bring her back as good
as new
Found a Real Live Doll.
This made everything all right for the
younger Dolans. Marie would be gone
a few days and would return cured
But the mother heart OF Kitty Dolan
was at one with Rachel wailIng for her
lost children, and woui not be com
forted--nJt even when her own mother
gave her ten csnts to buy candy.
True, Catharine took the money,
ana wandered weeping along Graham
avenue into briggs, and thence to the
corner Of Manhattan and Meserole
avenues, where there was a DEPART
ment store with a candy counter that
Cathar1ns thought gave the largest
half pound anywhere. Her soul was
dark with mourning for the lost
Marie.
Then. right in the vestioule OF the
store, calmly sleeping In beautiful
carriage under tilted white parasol,
she saw It the most beautiful doll In
the worhl
Ip eyes were shut There was the
daaGest little brown furze on It's head
1t had the most natural rosy cheeks
you ever saw. II had regular little
fat oreaSes around Its wrist like
real baby, and little red mouth that
was open and stirred family now and
then.
Catharine Dolan. silent, enraptured
gaSed, and the lost Marie was for
gotten. She reached little finger
out and touched It's cheek, and It's
eyes, big and brown and not a BIT
scared, opened.
II was not a doll at ell, but a real
1.-Two baby, Tar and away ahead OF even
the great big dollIss Catharine had
seen and sighed for in the Fulton
street windows last Christmas time
Where had II come from7 Whose
was it2
There wss nobody looking Some
people said babies were brought by
angels; others that a great big bird
left them And Catharines mamma,
when she had asked her about It, sad
they were found In ash barrels,
II In ash barrels, why not In the
vestbule OF a department store? And
she had found II and II was obviously
hers. The logic was hawless, fatal,
Wheeled "DolIle" Homo.
The next moment Catharlne Dolan.
months-old baby OF Mrs. Frank Col
Inns, Of No, ll2 Vernon avenue, Long
Island City, who had Just stepped in
the store down the street
The blotter OF the Sixty-third Pre-
cinot Police Station, OF Manhattan and
Greenpoint avenues, takes the story up
t 5At G'4P 9 ?. NJ. Mrs. Frank Collins re-
penamby ator containing the Ave
months'-old baby" The descriptlon
followed This was responsible for turn-
ing the attention OF forty policemen on
post and twenty-fouT, reserves to Cath
entry;
"Baby returned by catharine Dol,n,
aged six, Of No, 4S6 Graham avenue"
Yesterday Catharlne, demure little
maid with blond hair carefully done
up in KIDS. surrounded by the other
little Dolans, awestruck and silsnt,
after much persuasion and n present
OF chewing gum, told me all about IL,
solemnly, In monosyllables, her fore
finger In her mouth.
kItty's Confession.
'T missed my doll. Her name Is
Marie, She's In the hospital, And I
saw the baby IN the store IT. was
asleep, but I knew Il could opeh and
shut its eyes, and Marie can't and II
was nice and warm, always take
Marie Into bed with me, but she's
china, and she never seems 10 get
warm bit. I thought the baby would
be lots nicer. So I took H."
And then catharine lapsed into silence
from which she could not DO reused
''She won't tell any Of us any more"
said Catharines mother. 'vThe frst
thing knew about Il one Of the neigh.
bors came up last evening and said
Kitty was sitting down on the ntoop