Omaha daily bee., 1907-01-06
LOSE The CHILD
Father and Tive Others Take Baby from
Mother, Who BecOvsrS 1t.
EXCITEMENT RtlsSs FOR A TIME
Attorney for woman who Attempts
90 Prevent KidnapinE IL
Cracked on the Mouth
in the shunie.

Three men kidnapped Bessie Harvey. q
2-year-old child, from the Creche at Nine
teenth and Harvey streets Saturday morn
ing about II o'clock by passing the child
out Of the window, and as result the little
girls mother Is on the verge Of nervous
prostration and F. B. Palmer, Mrs. Har-
vey's attorney who tried to interfere, Is
wearing q swollen lip, given him by one
OF the men. The Juvenile authorities
secured the city several hours for trace
OF the missing child. She was finally To-
Gated at the home OF Mrs. Harvey's uncle
on South Twenty-ninth street.
The three men who accomplished the feat
Of taking the child from the very sight
Of it's mother and her attorney are Taylor
Harvey Of Leavenvorth, its father: Robert
Davis. street car man. uncle Of Mrs.
Harvey, and Chester Hazen, Davis brother
in-law.
After the exciting incident Davis went to
the court house with Superintendent Ellison
Of the Humane society and made a very
| frank statement Of his part in It. He said
Harvey took train out Of the city i'm
niedlateiy with the. child and was on his
way back to his home in Leavenworth.
where he will place the child with his
mother and sister. This proved to be un-
true.
Trouble All Along the Line.
Harvey and his wife, Lulu B. Harvey,
did not get along together and decided to
separate Last September Mrs. Harvey
came to Omaha with the child and made
her home with her uncle, Robert Davis.
Lately her uncle has been upbraiding- her
because he said she had been running
around to Saturday night dances, and she
made counter accusations of misconduct
against him. She finally left his house
and took the child away, saying she was
going to place 1t with a friend. Davis got
busy Thursday and found the child had
| been placed in the Creche. He decided 1t
would be better off with Mr.. Harvey's peo-
pie and wired Mr.. Harvey to come and get
the little girl.
With HAGEN they went to the Creche
| Saturday morning and Harvey went inside
to talk with his wife. Davis says they
had decided to get the child by force. If
necessary, and as Mrs, Harvey would not
| give II up, Harvey grabbed IT and handed
| It out TO Davis through the window
Palmer tried to stop them. but one of the
men landed a heavy blow on his lip and
they ran for the Farnam car Palmer
! scurried to the court house and broke into
session of the juvenile court
/ ELLISON TO the 'FRONT.'.
| Superintendent Ellison Of the Humane
society was sent with him to investigate.
Mrs. Harvey was hystercal but she man
aged to tell them the men got on Farnam
car going west with the child. Mr.. Ellison
went to Davis home on South Twenty
ninth street. but did not find the little one.
| Davis was there, however, and he con-
scented to accompany Mr.. Ellison to the
court house. where ne told his story. He
maintained Harvey went at once to the
Burlington depot and took a train out OF
| town.
! Palmer said he would file a complaint
with the county authorities. charging Davis
with assault and some other things. Mrs.
| Harvey expects to file suit for divorce
| as soon as she has established residence
in Omaha. She charges her husband with
drunkenness. Harvey says he will start a
| suit for divorce as soon as he gets back
| TO Leavenworth.
Court Puts Child in OrphanaEe,
Judge Sutton listened to the story Of the
| KIDNAPPING and of the troubles of the par
ents Saturday afternoon and then com
mitted the child to St. James orphanage
until he can make further investigation
| into the records of the parents Mrs.
| Harvey admitted she struck her husband
| with needle during their last quarrel be-
| fore they parted, but she says he also
knocked her down. He admitted he came
home drunk one night and that this was
| the cause of the trouble.
1T is out OF the question" said Judge
| Sutton, ito give this child to a man who
comes home drunk and strikes his wife,
/ will have to take 1t away from both of
you for the present and decide what to do
later"
During the hearing the child ran from
her father to her mother and prattled away
unconscious of the turmoil she was caus-
ing Judge sutton said he would try TO
determine within the next few days
whether Harvey's mother is a proper per-
son to have the child or not. II he inds
she is he may allow her to have custody