The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-12-30
TWICE STOLEN BOY SOON FOUND
WEIRD STORIES GROW UP ABOUT
DARCY VAN ALSTYNE.
Mamma, Robbed OF Boy in the Gilsey.
where She Doesn't Live. Receivers Him
at Hairdrcsser's where Correspondent
N Alleged 20 Have Boarded Him Out

Where h Doesn't Live. Receivers Him
at Hairdresser's where Correspondent
n Alleged 20 Have Boarded Him Out.
Almost as weird as the story OF the kid
mapping OF Darcy, the twice stolen four
year-old son OF Guy c. Van Alstyne. the
broker, from his mothers room in the Gilsey
House at 4 o'clock on Friday morning, is
the story Of his recovery last night by his
mother and her lawyer, Maurice Meyer,
in a hairdressing parlor on Sixth avenue,
after Justice Davis had issued a writ OF
habeas corpus yesterday ordering the boys
father to produce him in court tomorrow
morning.
Mr.. Meyers thrilling story OF D'Arcy's
recovery begins at 40 o'clock yesterday
afternoon, when. he says, a woman friend Of
his wife called up his house; at 70 West
Eighty-sixth street. and told her that a child
answering the description of the Van Alstyns
boy might be found at Kupatt's hair
dressing parlor; on the second floor of Dos
Sixth avenue.
MRS. Van Alstyne and | went over to the
Sixth avenue place in a cab Said Meyer.
Il stayed downstairs and sent Mrs. Van
Alstyne into the hairdressing place with
my clerk.
They found no one in the place but n
fifteen-year-old girl and a smaller girl.
Mrs. Van Alstyne said that she wanted TO
get her hair dressed. The older girl re-
piled that Mr.. Kupatt was out and that
she couldn't have anything done. Then
Mrs. Van Alstyne saw a Christmas tree
standing in the room anu, speaking 10 the
younger child, said.
what a pretty tree that il. Was il oil
for you? Isn't there any other child in
your family The child replied:
"'The Christmas tree was mine, but a little
boy came here yesterday TO board and I'm
going TO share it with him"
The lawyer said that by this time Mrs.
Van Alstyne's voice, which is quite piercing,
had penetrated one of the inner rooms, and
a child's voice was heard saying;
is that you, mamma? Oh, mamma, I'm
50 happy that you've come after me. |
want you TO take me right home
Before Mrs. Van Alstyne could find out
where the voice came from" said the law
yer, "D'Arcy toddled into the room, wear
ing only an undershirt. Mrs. Van Alstyne
grabbed him into her arms, kissed him
Historically and began to cry. The girl
in the place seemed relieved when the boy
came out and said:
I'm glad you're going to take him
home. Maybe he'll be satisfied now
Mrs. Van Alstyne wrapped her son
warmly in her fur cloak. and without wait
ing TO get any more of his clothing we all
went back TO Rector's. After she had
satisfied herself that Darcy was safe and
sound Mrs. Van Alstyne called a carriage
and took him home 10 her apartments in
the Radcliffe, at 4 West Ninety-second
street.
when we asked the boy about his ex-
periences, " Meyer went on, "he said that
he was taken TO the home Of Mrs. Catherine
Newman, the correspondent in the divorce
case, at 1912 Ditmas street, ~Flatbush, by his
father after he had been kidnapped Friday
morning. / also learned that the boy was
put in the hairdressing parlor to board by
Mrs. Newman and Mrs. Trinky Avant, one
Of the witnesses at the divorce trial.
Frederick Kupatt, the hairdresser, said
last night that he had known Guy Van
Alstyne two years. Van Alstyne went there
Friday afternoon with the boy and was
crying, Kupatt said. He asked Kupatt
to board the boy for a week until he could
make other arrangements Kupatt con-
sented, after con sulting his wife.
Van Alstyne kidnapped his boy first in
New Jersey last summer. As to the Gilsey
House kidnapping Mrs. Van Alstyne's story
points to a rather elaborate plot. She says
that she became acquainted with a Mrs.
Awaken, who roomed at the Gilsey House,
and accepted an invitation to dine with
her on Christmas afternoon. The boy
went, too, and they stayed at the hotel
that night, occupying a room next 70 Mrs.
Walker.
The visit was prolonged until Thursday.
and Mrs. Van Alstyne and her new ac-
quaintance sat up late Thursday night in
the ~latter's room. It was after midnight
when Mrs. Van Alstyne went to her own
room, where Darcy was already asleep.
Meanwhile the room adjoining Mrs. Van
Alstyne's had been taken for the night
only by two men who signed as A. Samp-
son" and co. r. Hill"
About 4 in the morning Mrs Van
Alstyne heard a knock at her door. Be
lieving it might be Mrs. Walker, she opened
the door INC was confronted by two men,
one of whom she says was her husband
and the other a lawyer who had been active
in his legal affairs. Her husband, she
says, dashed past her into the room. Then
she noticed that at least two other men
we're behind Van Alstyne and the lawyer.
There may AVE been five altogether, she
thinks.
IL took but a moment, according 70 her
! story, for Van Alstyne to seize the sleeping
boy, wrap him in a blanket and dash out
OF the room. She screamed and tried to
stop him, but one OF the other men, she says
put his hand over her mouth, pushed her
roughly back into the room, almost knock
ing her down, and slammed the door.
Streaming and calling on her husband
to stop, Mrs. Van Alstyne got into the cor
ridor, to bs met by her friend, Mrs. Walker
who asked what the trouble was. The fran
tic mother tried to explain, but the moments
| so lost we're enough TO enable the kidnap-
pers to disappear. The hotel people knew
nothing more. when questioned, save that
two men, known 10 the clerk and porter as
guests Of the house, went out quietly,
though hurriedly, one carrying a bundle,
apparently a child. An automobile was
waiting and they got in and started of.