Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1907-12-14

the three boys back in this country
now and she can take them where she
pleases, says a writer in the Sunday
World. Mother-love proved too much
for the courts and for Mr.. Hanna,
whom she had divorced and who has
married twice since
Both father-love and mother-love fig
ured in the disappearance of little
Freddie Krieger, of Chicago. He was
kidnapped twice, once by his father and
once by his mother, after two courts
had made formal orders in the case.
The boy was the son of Flora and
Bert Krieger. His father got the first
divorce, and though his mother was
supposed to see her son at stated in
Germany, where he placed the lad.
who was then IL, with friends in Ham
burg to be educated.
Mrs. Krieger married again and be-
came Mrs. Mcdonald. Then, with
plenty of money at her command, she
resolved to hunt for the boy to the end
of the earth, despite all the orders of
the American courts giving him into
her former husbands custody. The
trail led to Hanover, and there detec-
tives in her employ kidnapped the boy
| for second time.
Learned Lesson Well.
She hurried the lad to Hamburg,
| and there she disappeared-thoug
she was divorced, she had obtained
the custody of her son, no matter what
| the court ordered. She had learned
| her lesson in the divorce court, and
| she did business another way.
Theodore Wood, policeman, and his
wife long ago agreed to disagree. They
| lived at No. 1717 Gates avenue, Brook
| lyn, and their child, Florence, who
was not consulted in the matter at all,
stayed on there with her father.
One day when Policeman Wood was
on post Mrs. Wood stole into the
house and took little Florence away
| Fearful of being followed, she hurried
| the girl to Middletown, N. Y. Wood
heard where she had gone and had a
| warrant issued A detective arrested
Mrs. Wood there and brought her back
| to Brooklyn.
The case was taken to court. Mrs.
Wood was weeping, after sleepless
night in her cell. She couldn't see why
a mother should be locked up for TAX
| ing her own child.
she stole her!" declared the hus-
band.
But, as always happens, Mrs. Wood
| went free. There isn't law yet that
| will send a parent kidnaper to prison.
Madden Defied Court.
John E. Madden, the turfman, long
| separated from his wife, boldly kid
naped his two boys, ten and four years
| old, rather than let the mother take
them to Europe. They were at school
in Madison, N. ]. Madden learned
| that the mother intended taking the
| boys to Europe, and he made up his
mind that she shouldn't
| So he went out to Madison and Wis
| tied the boys. 1t was a snowy day and
| the ground was white.
Let us take a sleigh ride" he said
to the boys.
They were only too glad. A sleigh
was ordered, the boys climbed in and
| off they hurried into the snow. But
Madden drove direct to the railway
station, bought tickets for New
him. They left that night for
has a stock farm, and before Mrs.
Madden knew the truth the children
were out of the jurisdiction of the
courts of New York. But nobody ar
rested the boys father, even though
he did defy the court.
Mrs. Katherine Cadiex used an auto
mobile to kidnap her son. There had
| been the usual family jars and event
ually the nine-year-o1d boy, son of
| George Cadiex, was committed to the
| German Odd Fellows home in Union
port, the Bronx.
One fine afternoon an automobile
stopped outside the grounds of the in
stitution and from it stepped a tall,
handsomely dressed woman of 40 with