The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-09-12
MOTHER TELLS HOW SHE TOOK
 HER DAUGHTER
Electa Warner Left Boardman's Unwillingly, But is Glad to
 be With Parent
Never Wants to See Again Peo- pie Who Cared For Her Since
 She Was Thirteen Years Old

T am perfectly happy here. I don't care to see MT. and Mrs. Board
 man ever again. said pretty E1ecta Warner. IS years old organist of the cromwell, Conn.,. Baptist church talk ing with a Farmer, reporter at the home Of Edward Booth, of stratford, today
 Here, I can rest with my mother and get strong, and well and then I can take. up my music again. I am ambitious for musical career. With my mother to help me I know I can
 The Warner girl for five years the ward of A. Howard Boardman, a coal merchant and former deputy sheriff of Cromwell, Conn, vanished mysteriously from Cromwell, a week ago last Saturday night. While she was conducting a choir rehearsal, "a. strangez man called her from the or gan. The singers heard her scream as soon as she had walked out and rushing out they saw two men carry ing her bodily to automobile in which another figure could be discern ed in the, darkness. The machine shot away in the night
 Miss Warner today disclosed the mystery of her disappearance. ..I had been at the Boardman home since I was IS years o1d,'' she said. ttFor the last year I was not happy. I want ed to devote myself to my music. J household duties devolved upon me- did my best. but Mrs. Boardman was very nervous. I too am nervous and we could not get along very we'll together.
 Mother visited me afN Cromwell sew eral times. Her last visit was enough to convince her that I was unhappy. But didn't dare ask her to take me home or suggest to the Boardmans that should go. The first ifltina- tion had of any plan to take me Tlro 1,ofT the Cromwell church that night. When I saw my brother. I screamed. It flashed through my mind that this was a plan to take me away, and feared I was not doing right in go- Ing without a word to the lBoardman family. Ifcried out and struggled un- back to Hartford in the machine. M
 'tIn the car were my mother, my brother John, who works for the Au- tomatic Machine Co., in Bridgeport, cured the car in Hartford. When we got to Hartford we took a late train for Bridgeport, reaching the station after midnight. We went to the home of MT. James Keppy in Atlantic street where my aunt lives, and spent the remainder of the night there. Then we came to nay mothers nephew, MT. Booth We are going to stay here, for the present.
 At 6 o'clock Sunday morning the in MT. Keppy's home rang,
 
 my mother visited at MT. Keppy's My mother told her just where was and in whose care ! was
 sHThe only reason objected to 1eav- ing the Roardmans was because I feared was not doing right. But I am now convinced that mothers plan was very wise.
 4On thursday MT. Boardman came here to Stratford. finding out through MT. Keppy where mother and I were staying He used very violent lam guageE to mother, and then he turned on me. Now I feel that he has no
 'tI~worked very hard at the Board man home. and they provided me with an education and home and clothed me. My clothes are in. Crom- well. and so is my music. I spoke to MT Boardnan about them and he said I if wanted them I would have to come after. them I know if went there he would try to keep me, so : Mrs. warner, the mother of E1ecta, is a domestic nurse She says she felt it was her duty as mother to see that her child was not unhappy, and, knowing she was able to provide her with a comfortable home, and make her life pleasant she decided upon her daring plan to rescue her.
 T disliked to act in that manner. said she, 4'but I knew Mrs. Board man, and was sure that if tried her consent there would be trouble So I arranged the automobile trip from Hartford to Cromwell. am glad it's all over. I have seen my he tells me I have the right to de- l nand E1ecta's clothes if I wish, but l | am not going to make any more | trouble am satisfied now that I have Electa with me and she is happy