The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25
LITTLE GIRL TALE
kIDNAPPED BY AN OLD MAN AND
 RETURNS HOME.
Whole Country Around Nottingham, England Is Talking of Strange Adventure of Seven Years
 old Chld.

London. Oct 24-(SpecfaI )-The whole country around Nottingham is talking of the strange homecoming of little Frances Sieger, the seven-year- old girl who disappeared on June Is last and was not heard of again until few evenings ago when she return ed mysterfously and apparently none the worse for her adventure.
 It was 8; o'clock in the evening wh en there came a knock at the back door of the Sieger's home in walfordroad, Nettinghafn and noise as of some- one trying the handle. Mrs. Siegle went to open the door. and in rushed her long-iost little daughter crying "Mamnaa!. I'm here. let me come in.'' The mother screamed. and then she, the father and Frances's six brothers and sisters rushed with one accord to embrace the little wanderer.
 Quickly the news spread, and the crowd of neighbors who had eagerly explored and watch ed and waited and hoped with tue anxious parents began to gather. Before long Sergeant Row. land, who had had charge of the mys-' tery from the Beginning, was Aon the scene. taking note of the child,s ac- count Of her adventure. He and the rest of the local detectives are now hot on the trail of the kidnapper. .
 The police have two clues, in addt-
 
 complete details given by the child. The first is a penciled scrawl written by the strange man and given by him 10 the little girl to deliver to her pa- rents when he brought her near her home and left her.
 The second is little frock and hat which the kidnapper bought for the child. and which, she wore when she came home. Tho dress Is a tiny blue sedge frock. with frIli and feath- er-stitching round the bottom. The hat Is Of white straw trimmed with cream. satin ribbon and white daisies. There is no makers name in the hat, and 1t Is thought the kidnapper remov- cd 1t before he parted with the girl The police, however. hope to be able to find the shop at which they were bought.
 Frances Sleger is a pretty little girl with ffaxen fhair and blue eyes. A blue ribbon crossed her curls, and she wore a white pinafore and new dress In place of the blue serge frock she came home in, when reporter found her. A
 'The man who took me away had white hair and a long white beard" she said, but he was not so old. He was slim and. active He can run fast. I saw him after he left me last night near home."
 T don't think could take you to the, place where the man took me" she continued. .''You see he took mo on a long ride In the tram. where I had never been. and then alonk walk, I should know the house, and the yard with the little tap in 1t if T saw il. again. and should know the man. II saw carts in the yard--a butchers and a coal cart and others.
 The man. lived all alone in the i house. and when he went out after breakfast he would lock me in. If was a dirty house, and the windows were dirty, and sometimes the man would rub the windows. He, called me 'Duekie,' but he never called me Frances or Fanny as mother does. I did not call him by any name. and wanted to get home.
 The man used to come to dinner. and in the evenings when he put me to bed he would comb my hair, parting it in the middle, and he used to kiss me. There was no one else living in the house. only the man and me, and 1t was, sometimes very IonIy, and cried to go home.
 "ae brought rie dteysot6 play with. and sweets som etiTn es,5 aGnd q I used to play by myself aon the noef. The man did all the h ousework. is p5s1a
 For breakfast r had breatl-and- but ter and tea. and for dinner I had bread-and-butter and egg. and did not have any jam. He did not buy any.
 q was so glad to be home with mama. I was frightened of the man. but he was never unkind tuame He never hit me or beat me. When he brought me home he locked the door of the house in the yard,a and we walked a long way. Thendwe got on