Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1909-04-02

parties.
of the kidnapers arrested. One, A. 5.
Warner, was an Albany lawyer. Each
was sentenced to 10 years in the peniten-
tiary.
There is a CHASTITY touch in the abduc-
ton in 1925 of Gerald Lapimer, two
year-old New York baby, who was heir
to $4,000.
Baby Gerald simply disappeared. There
was no demand for ransom, no word from
the kidnapers. Police and detectives
were unable to gain any clew. 1t was
a ufne-days' sensation, this disappearance
of the baby heir.
II was several months before the mys-
terry was solved. md then. by chance.
Gerald was discovered living on farm
near gainesville. o., with an old couple
of imbeciles named John Collins and An
ma Ingerson. The baby was returned to
his relatives, the couple sent to an asy-
lurn.
they seemed to have no motive for
stealing the baby except that they want
ed it.
The kidnapping in 1901 OF Freddy Muth,
eight-year-old son of a Philadelphia jew
eler, furnished an example of swift Legal
vengeance almost without parallel.
Freddy was stolen on June u. 1901, by
John J. Kean, who started to run away
with him. then changed his mind and de-
cided to bury the boy alive. All evening
the two wandered about the city, going
to theatres. In the morning Kean made
the child dig it's own grave.
There's buried treasure in there" said
the man. dig fast and Deep"
While the boy was still toiling police
burst in and took Kean to Jail Arraign-
ed within a week II took the prosecution
only two hours to bring in all the testi-
mony and arguments they needed. Five
minutes later the jury had called him
guilty and judge had sentenced him to 20
years solitary confinement in the penl-
tertiary.
The nurse girl case" in New York IN
1899 was a tremendous sensation. A nurse
maid named Bella Anderson had taken
her charge. 1S-mOnths-old Marion Clarke,
out for a trip through Central park. They
did not come back.
Instead a note was found pinned on the
doorstep the next morning. IF you don't
leave the money here, or il you tell the
police" it read, well pin the baby's ears
here"
Despite the threat, the parents appealed
to the police, who found the baby alive
and Growing a few days later in Summit,
n. ]. They arrested the nurse, also Marx
Barrows and his wife. The nurse, VINO
was only an accomplice, got four years,
while Barrows drew IA and went insane.
His wife got u and is still in prison.
The most famous black hand case was
that of Tony Mannino, of Brooklyn. just
$4,000 was demanded for Tonys release.
The parents refused to appeal TO the
police, and would never tell whether any
of the money was paid over or not, but
the baby was restored.
The note demanding the money was
unusual. I'VE are not criminals" IL
read. I'VE are nice gentlemen, like you
Only we have not made money like we
expected, so we take this way of getting
money to get back to beautiful Italy"
To find little Erica Egbert, who was
snatched from her mothers arms on the
streets OF Chicago, a 3O000-mile trip was
made. The mother, who was editor of the
Bachelor Books. was shopping at the
time, when a man grabbed the baby and
disappeared in the crowd A hue and cry
was set up. but the baby could not be
found
Leaving her work Mrs. Egbert set out
in search OF her child, following mysteri-
Gus clews. until she finally recovered il
at Madras. India.
In addition to the successful abductiops,
many other efforts have been made at
different times. Many threats were made
I about Grover Cleveland's family, and the
Goulds have kept guards over their chill
dren for years.