The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-04-10
Held in Hackensack Charged
With kidnapping, Non-Sup-
port and Abandonment.
ARRESTED IN EDGEWATER
WITH HIS LITTLE SON
Their Little Daughter Previous.
ly Taken, but lie Denies
Having Abducted Her.
Especial to the Evening star.l

HACkENSACk, April 10.--CharEed
by his beautiful young wife with kid
mapping, non-support and abandon
ment, Edward c. Holden was locked up
in the Jail here today He is held for
trial without bail.
Holden was arrested last night at
Edgewater with Charles Grishaber, of
81 West 125th street. Manhattan He
had with him his 4-year- r-old son. Ed
ward Clayton Holden, whom he is
charged with kidnapping.
| In jail today Holden declared that his
wife recently had been taking auto
/ who boards, with her husband, at the
Holden home. Idle Hour, Mosmere, N, j.
/ TT was for that reason that | took
my children" declared Holden to re-
porter for the STAR. 81 did not think
! they had a good home, and ] was
anxious to look after them myself The
other child is my daughter May aged
3 years. | admit that | know where
she is, but I deny kidnapping her.
story of the Wife.
y,
who held court at midnight in Edge
water, Mrs. Holden told ag long story
of her troubles.
My marriage was mistake" she
began. Il was an orphan and was in
the Convent Villa Marie. in Montreal,
until / was 16 Then | came for a
visit to New York. I met Edward c.
Holden, fell in love with him and our
marriage followed. For time we lived
at Elizabethport, then we moved to
New York, and, later. when l got pos
session of my money. | bought Idle
Hour. My husband was then d sales
man for a cash register company.
Something came between us two
years ago, and on May 49, 1908, ne de-
serted me, taking with him our little
daughter May. I nearly went crazy,
and searched for my child for weeks.
One day 1 received word that May was
dying on North Brother Island from
! scarlet fever. There l found my child
and l took her home and nursed her
back to health.
| "A few months later May and ] were
in 125th street, when my husband again
i seized the child. She was taken to the
home of his parents, 201 East 11Sth
and there was a reconciliation.
Last Wednesday my husband again
deserted me and took with him our lit
tie daughter. have tried so hard to
| find her, but without avail At the
home of his parents / have been told
that she was not there. Then L lost
patience. 1 swore out the warrant
charging abandonment and non-sup-
port.
| Hid Child i'm Cellar.
II was at home with two servants
Estelie Gantz end Helen Porter yes
terday afternoon at o'clock when
there came rafting at the. front door
one OF the servants came to me and
| screamed ]. told her to take little Ed
| ward and hide him in the cellar She
did this going down the back stairway
| | ran to the front door as the door was
broken open, and in rushed my hus-
band and another man. Ny husband
/ asked where his SON was, End / tried
to persuade him that the child was not
at home
"The two searched every part of the
house and then went to the cellar
where they found little Edward My
(, husband grabbed UP the Child smoth-
cred him in his arms to keep him from
+ screaming, and ran to the yard.
II tried to follow, but was too weak
| from fright to go any distance. I saw
them catch q trolley car and start for
| Edgewater and telephoned to the DO
lice to catch them.''
Grishaber. who was with Holden, was
held in $500 bail for examination.