The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1907-09-13
Fred Mcclure Had Opportuni-
ty to Get Possession of His
Little Son and Made a Mad
Race for Freedom.
WIND GAVE OUT AND
HE GAVE UP THE RACE.
Mcclure and His Wife Do Not
Live Together But the Court
Has Not Given Her the Gus
tody of the Child.

About o'clock Thursday afternoon,
the widest confusion reigned in the
northeastern part of the city, owing to
the bold attempt of Fred Mcguire, for
merly of this city, and now a resident
of Eaton, to kidnap his year-old child
from the mother, who lives on North
+ street. AS Mcclure ran south on
North Thirteenth street and then east
on North e street, holding the baby in
his arms and pursued at close range by
the frantic mother, women ran out of
houses, while factory men abandoned
their work and poured out of the shops
to witness the exciting chase No one
however, offered to stop the fleeing
man. and but one person who witnessed
the kidnapping retained enough pres
ence of mind to telephone to police
headquarters.
McManus to the Rescue.
Sergeant McManus abandoned his
desk mounted his bicycle and was soon
in hot chase of the fugitive father
with the Kidnapped child. Pushing his
way through hundreds of factory men
and women. who pointed out to him the
direction Mcguire had taken and who
urged him to make the pursuit hot
one. McManus finally cleared himself
and bicycle of the excited throng. At
the corner of Fourteenth and streets,
McManus caught sight of the kidnap-
per and Kidnapped. Mcclure saw the |
officer at the same time. and realizing
ha 1ac-cy <xf f,,x tiki
ped at the corner of Sixteenth and E /
streets and awaited the arrival of Mrs. |
Mcclure, to whom he handed the as
tonished and cooling cause of all the ex-
citement, and Sergeant McManus.
Was Allowed to Leave.
Enroute to police headquarters Nc
Guire stated with laugh that if he
had not lost his wind he would have
caught Dayton & Western car and es-
capped over the Ohio line "She would
never have got the baby if had man
aged to get over in Ohio" MCGUIRE
stated. There is no law which pre-
vents father kidnapping his child un-
less some court has given the mother
the legal custody of the child, which
has not been done in the Mcguire case,
SO after husband and wife had talked
over their domestic troubles at police
headquarters. Mcclure was allowed to
leave the city. Mrs. Mcclure. at head
quarters, informed her husband that if
he would live with her in a home of
their own she and the baby, whom the
fond mother still retains would return
TO him, but that she would never live ,
with him so long as they lived with !.
other relatives.
Locked up Their Home. I
About two weeks ago Mcclure and !,
his wife had some trouble and as a +
result he locked up the house on +
North street, where they had been
living with little harmony and Nc I
Guire went to Eaton to live with his c
Mrs. Mcclure reopen i
ed the house and continued to live a
there with the baby. Thursday after
noon Mcguire, who had been ordered
by the police to stay away from the
house. reappeared. While he was !
talking with his wife at the front
door the little baby. whom both par
ents are passionately fond, came out
Of the house and began playing about n
lnC uopl Stcp. MCtTulTe A.
reached down, picked up the bewild- II
cred child and fled out of the gate a
and south on North Fourteenth street. v
As soon as Mrs. Mcclure could recov- a
sr from her astonishment she gave q
,hase. screaming at ever step for her
to give the baby back to her
The woman's screams aroused the en-
ire neighborhood and soon all the
people in the section os the city were r
'warming into the streets to see what
he excitement was.
Appealed to the Police.
Mcguire and his wife have been w
having trouble for some time. Sew Fl
raj months ago Mcclure tried to S,
rave the local authorities force Mrs. Iii
Mcclure to give up the custody of the
'aby. Prosecutor Jessup refused TO
lave anything to do with the case. |
fred MCGUIRE is a son of Jesse Nc
suire. who recently met a tragic N
eath by falling through an elevator
haft in the Kelly block on South
Eighth street, o