Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-05-30
ELoPING COP IS NABBED
HESS FOUND WITH
FoURTEEN-YEAR-oLD GIRL.
She Sobs in Mothers Arms - Hess
Locked Up on Two Grave
Charges.


year-old girl he had lured from home with
the promise Of q silk dress and an auto
mobile. ex-Policeman Theodore Hess was
brought back to New York last night from
his hiding place in Baltimore.
Neither the automobile nor the silk dress
had been bought to repay the little child
for her lifelong and unknowing sacrifice.
"Oh. do not love him." she sobbed. "Give
me back to my mamma"
And Hess, dragged to judgment by the
letter he had written from hiding to his
deserted wife, slouched past the outgoing
platoon of his former fellow officers" who
sneered and would not look him in the face,
and was placed in a cell In the West 145th
street station. charged with abduction.
An hour later. in the Office of the Gerry
Society. where Elizabeth Grady was taken.
her father. maddened with anger at the
crime against his daughter and flung into
piteous tears at the sight of the different
girl who chung, begging for forgiveness.
ABOUT his neck. heard the story of the out
rage from her own lips.
He said mother didn't want me at home
any longer. sobbed the girl land he told
me he would buy me fine dresses and a
pony and automobile and, papa, that's how
he made me go away with him" She wept
throughout her tale.
The girl was dressed Detectives Becker
and Meckert had found her in the poor,
Il
day in a brown plated skirt that hung to
her heels, badly worn and crumpled
shirt waist. little cross-tie that her
mother had given her on her fourteenth
birthday, and plain black shoes. The hair
that Mrs. Grady used to tie in little pig
tails" was done in a high, old looking knot
at the top of her head; all the lissomeness
OF her young girlhood was gone from her
face. She would have been taken for TWEEN
ty instead of fourteen; no one would know
her from the pictures which had been taken
only few months before Hess stole her
from her home.
Il am so glad to be back with you she
said II will never run away again. II
you'll take me home, papa. That man
could make me go with him whether
wanted to or not He used to come to the
house to see you. and l used to meet him
when he sat on his big horse in the street
in front of the house.
"One day he met me with another girl
and he sent her away so he could talk
to me. He said he loved me. He said
mamma was tired Of me at home and
would be cruel to me. when l grew a little
older. He said he had lots of money and
could buy me all the things 1 wanted in
the world.
THAT day he bought me a box of candy
and told me that must go away with him
then. 1 knew he had a wife and some
babies, and 1 told him / couldn't CO. But
he said that didn't make any difference
and that you would whip me If 1 didn't
obey the policeman.
Mamma had sent me out to confession,
and was on my way. but instead 1 went
with him"
Hess is a mere wreck of the dapper
mounted policeman who carried off Lizzie
Grady six weeks ago. AS he shambled
into his old police station manacled to
Lieut.. Becker. he looked twenty years
older and very forlorn. A sandy mus
tache. hardly more than a line Of red, was
his only attempt at disguise.
Il wouldn't have been caught only I
wrote my wife a fool letter from Balti-
more. 1 suppose she was mad and told
about it to the police" he said.
Capt. Kruescher. before whom he was
arraigned. nodded. The letter, given over
to the police by the angry woman's friends.
it is said, was the clue which led to his
detection.
well, It's all up. anyway" the prisoner
added. Il don't know why I ran away
with Lizzie, except that I'd been dream
ing about her for months every night, and
I thought couldn't live without her 1 got
loving her more than loved my wife, and
it shows I loved her when I gave up my
family and home and position and went to
working for her in Baltimore livery
stable, doesn't it"