The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-31

GAYS HER INFANT DIED
minneapolis Police However, Doubt
She Has Been a Mother
Deserted by Her
Spouse.

Spouse.
Minneapolis, May 3o.-Stealing the
aays-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. En-
win Giauaue from the arms of tn
mother
Fleeing Undecided with the child il
her arms and using three street ca;
lines in the twin cities
Risking capture by stopping in {
bakery for food and by sitting fol
hours in the ST. Paul union station
Riding to Superior in a day coach
Placing the babe in a %children's home
and fleeing to the house of a friend
Traced, arrested, brought back to
Minneapolis with the stolen babe
All this Anna Ostroski did that she
might foist the baby as her own upon
her friends and husband, and thereby
put an end to the blighting stories of
her acquaintance and possibly ERECT a
reconciliation with her usband
Deserted in Pregnancy.
Deserted by her husband when about
20 become d ulOlllSI, III SooJSSlSo = "
the taunts of her friends because OF
her separation, Anna Ostroski sought
for some means of placing herself in
the right light. She hit pom the kid
mapping as the surest and quickest
method Of attaining this end. She
thought it all over; in her minds eye
she saw the desired results obtained,
and her faith in her sensational act
made her fearless.
As the facts are gradually untangled
by the police. and as new facts are
fitted into the story of the kidnaper,
support of this motive Becomes
stronger. Anna Ostroski told the police
that she had no motive for stealing the
child and that she herself had three
months ago given birth to a baby girl
in Little Falls. But her story is doubt
ed. Her own sister, Polly Ostroski. of
Little Falls, contradicts the story posi-
lively, and narrows the motive to the
one idea, that of r%egaining the love of
her husband which she was told was
being assailed.
No Baby Born.
Anna Ostroski left Superior six week
ago and went to Little Falls, where
She stayed for three days, not for three
weeks as h told the police. No baby
was born to her in the family home,
1t Is asserted that she went back to
Superior, where she remained for some
time before coming to Minneapolis.
Though this fact raises q new mvs-
terry, it almost dispels the one yelling
the motive. and to the authorities it
means a rapid solution OF the prob
lem.
But where is Gertie, the baby girl,
Of whom Anna Ostroslli told Stella
Wright? Was Gertie a myth. the crea-
ture Of the kidnaper's amazingly u n
ming brain? This question cannot be
dropped by the police, neither has it
been solved. Though the Giauque baby
has been returned to it's mothers arms
and the abductor caught and placed In
2 cell, the facts are still u~nrevealed.
Only a suggestion now and Tier is
cleaned from letters to the girl tina
bring the %uncovering OF the motive a
little nearer
The cloud that ceGceais them is the
apparently dull but sor all tina a Won
derful brain of 4 young and troubled
Polish girl. Will she ever tell?
Why Not kidnap?
The police do not believe that Anna
Ostroski grieved deeply over the death
OF her own child, which, according to
her w story. was born after her hus-
band left her. Stanislaus Jaromzek.
Anna's husband, never knew of the
birth of the child, she said. From this
h police deduce that she had planned
reconciliation with her husband and
Wanleu eRe use OF a baby to attain this
end. .nts
Her baby was dead and he didn't
know it. :
why MOI steal a baby. take it to him
and appeal to him to support it? MANY
q reconciliation has beer thus brought
about and it seems in this case thar
planned to proceed along this line.
Wnen me prisoner was being taken
to jail. following her examination bv
the officers, to be locked up for the
night, she took two letters out of her
handbag and tried to tear them into
bits. Her desperation was shown also
IN her attempt to swallow a picture of
herself which she had crumpled in her
hand.
Her Story.
i came to Minneapolis the Friday
before I met Mrs. Giauque at her house
and agreed to work for her." she said
Il had never seen her before and had
simply gone to church with nv friend
Mrs. hnopik, and stopped there to get
q drink Of water. I knew NOTHING. of
the expected arrival of the babe until
aIter ! mad promised to take the place,
and never thought of taking the babe
away until an hour before I started"
Continuing, she said she went to work
early the next day, Which was Monday
ana for a time was well pleased with
n place. although she !onged to 90
pack 10 superior to her friends. After
n a been there a few days Stella
Wright called on her. The two talked
over old times n she told of her
baby, how she had named it and how.
after her husband had left her. She
had left the child with friends in order
that she could come to Minneapolis to
IND work. She admitted that She had
not told the truth about the baby to
Stella.
Nothing eventful happened after
Stella visited her, she said. until the
day When she ran away with the baby.
Decided to Take Infant.
About an hour before she left she
said h decided to run away ana take