Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-08
WINSOME TOT
KIDNAPPED FROM
MOTHERS HOME
LITTLE "PINKY" CALLANDER,
PET OF ALL, ABDUCTED
BEAUTIFUL 5-YEAR-oLD CHILD is
ENTICED AWAY
FIaxen=Haired E1sbe, Favorite with
All Who Frequent Court House,
Disappears in Mysterious
Manner


Little "Pinkv" Callahder, pet of the
court house neighborhood and known
because of his flaxed-haired charm to
most of the habitues of the county
building, has vanished simultaneously
with strange man who, children say,
led the lad away ostensibly to a candy
store.
Police, private detectives and many
volunteers passed all yesterday after
""an and night trying to find the miss
Ing boy, whose name is Forest Callan-
der. He is idolized in the district
arount Temple and Broadway, where
he lives, and the loss is felt as a per-
sonal one.
Pinky disappeard at midday yester
day from the neighborhood of his
grandmother, Mrs. Dowdells, rooming
house, 326h Temple street, and his
heart-broken mother fels his absence
doubly because the child is afflicted
with whooping cough. He needs special
dieting and care.
Father Absent in North
The lads mother, Mrs. Lillian Cal
lander, is well known as an artist and
decorator. The father, Charles Callan-
der, for the last year has been in the
Modesto-Turlock district in Stanislaus
county, where his relatives are ranch
owners.
officers are working on the abduc-
tion theory.
Acting ON the information given by
two children, Ruth and Mildred, who
live opposite the court house on Broad
way, they are looking for a youthful
man, wearing a straw hat, well dressed
in gray clothes, who the children say
told Pinky to come with him to get
some candy. The youth went along
with childlil5e faith.
The two children admit they followed
the pair, because Pinky was a gener-
ous-hearted little fellow, always ''di-
vided," and they wanted some of the
goodies in prospect.
With Strange Man
The last they saw of the mysterious
man and the lad was at Broadway and
First street, walking hand in hand.
They did not enter any candy store,
the girls say, either on Temple street
or Broadway, though they passed sew
eral stores en- route.
1t was about noon that the man
passed the Dowdell home, where the
Callanders live, and shortly afterward,
when the anxious mother looked for
the boy 10 1eeQ nlIIl' SIIe III lSdl iiSu
of the candy incident from the chill
dren.
She at once jumped to the abduction
theory, notified the police and detect
ives, and as best she could organized
an immediate hunt for the little fel-
low.
Her description is such that If he is
in or near Los Angeles he should easily
be recognized.
Flaxen-Haired and Popular
Pinky is about years old and gets |
his title from his pink cheeks and flax
en- hair 1t is cut college style ana is
silky in appearance.
He is large for his age, as he wears |
age No. Z clothes; has strong voice, |
and is greatly attached to his mother,
for whom he probably is crying con-
tinually.
crepe de chine necktie and blue percale
pants.
His stockings are black and he has
elkskin shoes, a combination of white
and black which doubtless will make
the boy conspicuous to observers
Pinky usually played in his grand
mas back yard, but was in the habit
of parading with neighborhood chill
dren as far as. the county Jail and
court house. This fact led to his be-
coming generally known in the neigh
DOrnOOQ Wn6T6 his llldIheQ yOullllul
beauty caused him to be petted freely.
Neighhors Aroused
Mrs. Callander says people have
often told her they would like to steal
the boy because of his winsomeness,
but until yesterday the import of those
words never weighed on her for
moment.
Her grief and anger are shared by
"If 1 only knew where the boy was
I could stand it a WHILE" said Mrs
Callander last night. She had returned
from long search with police officials
and was getting ready to make the
tour of the depots to watch the out
going trains.
"I can't imagine why any one should
take him as 1 have no known enemies
and no one could be heartless enough
surely to take him on a trip without
letting us know, especially as he is a
sick child.
Child Has Whooping Cough
"Why we are feeding him on cruel
and the daintiest things as he cannot ]
retain any food because of his weak
ened condition due to whooping cough :
MY widowed mother and I are pre- [
pared to spend every dollar of the little s
we have to find the child, and Z
the police are doing all they can,
know" ,
Attorney Grant Bennett counsel for
the family, also took hold of the case
late yesterday should legal action be
to recover the little one.
The childs mother married at 16, and
both she and the father come of well !
Known families. The nuptials at the /
Episcopal pro-cathedral in 1902 are re- @
,alled by many Angelenos, Miss Dow Il
lell being known at that time for her S
lbility as a singer AS an artist she
las large clientele, though for two o
years she was absent in San Francisco v
md In the Modesto country. b
She is the niece of Edward Dowdel
Il New York, widely known as a deco b
ator Of costly pianos. a