Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-05-21
,urid Story Of kidnapping Printed
This Morning is Of Usual
Peevish Order.
pR F. HADLEYS STATEMENT.
roor children With Consent OF the
Father from Pitiable Surround
lngs In San Francisco.

49,. tribune stirred up another
as nest this morning under the
.a,ines or Boys Are kidnapped
uorr,on Relative" As usual the
..ory Is distorted and does not hold
s,sr The facts could have been
,sred had the organ of the crooks
st.t"n the pains TO interview Mr..
vrsnk Hadley. SO Marion avenue,
this city. -
~ well known in this city. SO is
i n,a" mother of the boys involved. who
i ~ nIctured by the Tribune as frantic-
~, calling upon the Society for Pre-
alton of Cruelty to Children in
90 francisco to recover her boys,
-, arc now in Salt Lake. whom.
W. saws. to quote the morning pre-
s..jcator have been kidnapped by
we Mormon brother OF her Mormon
.nsband and taken to Salt Lake City,
nhere they have been placed in some
Mormon institution"
Nr Hadley's statement to the
4vews" this morning is set forth with
o,t comment and the public is at lib
erty TO draw It's own conclusions.
MIR. HADLEY'S STORY.
"You might perhaps call me Nor
mon" said MIR. Hadley, but | be-
iieye that 1 am hardly a Latter-day
saint l was born in the Church, so
as far as that goes, the Tribune is
correct: the rest OF the stuff printed
Is ALI rot. Mr.. Christensen, the father
of the boys, Is not my brother. His
wife is a sister of my wife. When
,he family lived in Salt Lake, they
resided on First South between Ninth
and Tenth West until three years ago,
when they went to the coast. ] went
IN a trip to San Francisco and Los
Angeles couple OF weeks ago on the
excursion. OF course, l looked them
ND in san Francisco and found n bad
state Of affairs there.
ENTERTAINING AN AFFINITY.
ITO cut a long story short. the
neighbors of Mrs. Christensen told
me that she was entertaining
an affinity during the absence of her
husband from the rooming house on
Valencia and Twenty-second street.
San Francisco. l found the husband
out of work and the children in awful
condition. They were dirty, unkempt
and covered with vermin. | told the
husband that | would take the boys
home with me If he so desired, as my
heart went out to the poor little tads.
We bathed the boys and bought them
two complete QUITS of clothing, and
Mr.. Christensen came with me to the
depot and put them on the train. 1
paid for their transportation to Los
Angeles and brought them home.
STAYING WITH AUNTS.
We had no room at home for them
ana tho boys are staying with their
aunts.o one at As and the other at 37Narion
avenue. BOT back last Thursday and
learned that IL was three days before
the mother discovered that her children
had gone, all of which demonstrates
that they needed someone to take care
OF them.
Since then have received a wire
from the father to hold the children by
all means.
Before Christensen got out of work
he was earning So a day and his two
)lder boys $3.50 each. He told me that
regularly every week they turned over
50 to the woman and yet after he had
ven out Of work a month they did not
ave a cent in the house.
Mrs Christensen always had good
'lothes for herself and paid visits to
'eauty doctor but her family was neg
ected horribly. What [ did ! do not
egret. | did 1t simply out of pity for
he children and with the consent OF
he father
AS to bringing the children here to
'ace them in Latter-day Saint in
is another Tribune fab
icatlon out of whole cloth.
"One more word about the mother:
he was "A member of the Church when
ere, but since leaving Salt Lake she
oined two other denominations and
1st what church she belongs to since
he met her affinity l cannot tell"