The sun., 1910-06-28
BOY WHIZZBD AWAY IN auto
vOTHER tND DIVORCED RIFE
POSED 70 HAVE COT MIN.
Tns Met auEhllns' Csntaation over Elghl-
,rur-aId son LIkely 60 Bs DrOaWht
to q Ilssd Qulck kldRAPplAg WOrS
from Fa.ers summer HSme Lawn.

TrOm Fat'ers summer Hosne lawn.
AlvASr June u The eiGht-ysAr-oli
'son ut Mchsel ?. Mclaughlin was
nNohed IA the lawn of his fathers
summer homo on The brow Of KsnwOOd
H,II o, erlOokinP the Hpdson River early
today and is being hustled over the
automobile soute from Albany 10 New
York tonight In q big red car. Young
Michael is olaspei In his mothers arms.
AID = everything gOes we'll they will
be down around Manhattan AZ the dawn
Of to-morrow morning triumphant over
the fA,ber The latter has probably
hesri hy thb time that his fair haired
bov hA' been the victim of the most suO-
oessfIl kidnapping that Albany has
Known since littls Johnnie Conway was
lurei away for ransom.
Little Michael MCIAughlin's = unexpected
auto ride was the result. IL is said. Of his
mothers well laid plans 10 get her SOn
away from the boys father. A year ago
Mclaughlin located in KeuwOod. the
pretty hamlet in the southern section Of
Albany which has been made widely
known because IL includes tho convent
Of the Sacred Heart, a ieW new summer
homes and some farmers who mind their
own business.
Il vas reported uPon MciAughlin's
coming INTO the quiei of Ksnwood that he
vas divorced from his frst wife and had
married leonora Jackson. They Occu-
pied The old Prsntios mansion ard had
half a dozen servants tWs Understood
that Mclaughlin married hiS 6rst wife,
Cela jackson. in Brooklyn. ten years ago
and there vas a divorce
One ~ the servants in the Mclaughlin
house saw = man unknown TO her called
a. the Mclaughlin place last night and
asked for a b~Usrst of hoWerS. The
servant recalled to-day that the stranger
Actsd m a peculiar manner She thinks
noW he was looking for little MiohAel
McLs Ighlin. The caller left without
Retunl. iis bouquet
ES-ly to-day the Mclaughlin lad was
romp,ng about on the lawn. A big red
touring car whizsed along the Kenwood
roa-i tJrnad up the hill to the McIiaugh-
fn hoiEe And topped A woman and
two men were n the automobile and the
men g.Abbet the lad and hustled him
INTO the CHI p The auto backed onto
a
bany shortly afterward the MoI.augh.
lin servants missed the boy and an alarm
Waa raised thar he had been kidnapped.
The police we're telephoned TO aud half
a dOzen men scurried Ia the south end
of the town TO hunt ~ the red touring
car and the missing lad. One Of the
servants pointed out a man who gave
HE name ~ J. r. Hatherly and said he
worked in the STATE Department oi AEri.
culture e. a member of the kidnapping
party Hatherly was gst,ing on a car
when a policeman invited him 10 head.
quarters.
There Hatherly disclaimed any knoWl.
edge Of kidnapping. He said he knew the
McIAughlins and that the mother had the
boy and that everything was all right
The polics lst Hathsrly %. Later tho
STATE Department. in which hs said hs
vas employed. insisted that Il had no such
employee The servants In the hcus-
say that Mr. Mclaughlin feared his son
would he kidnapped by the lads mother
and A. recently as last night warned the
servants % be careful of the boy.
= WAS Watching him all right, said
May Dowd, a servant. who was weep
ng about the kidnapping. but he Eot
out ~ nv sight sornehoW Before knew
II that big auto dashed 10 and before
realized Il the men and tins woman had
'hs hoy IN t. Michael was crying and
acsing. but the mother held him tight
and sid something about having her
darling hoy at last. Then tho auto tore
aUay
Mrs Dowd described the woman In the
auto az wearing a gray linen suit and
black hat covered with two wells. Other
servants we're inclined to believe that an
attempt had been made 10 set fire 90 the
Mclaughlin house last night. but the police
say The servants we're excited and
imagined this part Of the story.
Mclaughlin AID his wife vent 10 New
iors on the boat last night and the ser
wants aid they didnS know whether they
could l1oate the father in Brooklyn or
not They were going 20 try TO do 70.
Soaking Yesterday Of the Kidnapping. |
NJ Mclaughlin intimAted that former
wife now Mrs. Henry p Holt Of ?i2S
Church avenue. Brooklyn. hal taken the
child He said that his mOvomeots must
have reen watched. as he and his present
wife we're with the kidnapped boy until
Sunday the kidnappers evidsntly waiting
lr'I they were gone befOrs pulling oH
the 'rica
Mclaughlin said that the boys mother.
Mrs Holt. had been anxious % get him
for son.s tine and vas probably re-
-ponsibls tor the kidnAppihG. She was
Mss Cecilia Benjamin Of Brooklyn and
secured diSoFUe from Mclaughlin In
isI7. uamlng . woman known a. Lou.
sopn afterwaFu Mclaughlin married his
present. wife I,sonora Jackson. the vio-
lHisr
There seems to be some doubt a. TO
VIZ IS entitled 10 the custody 0f the
aalaFpei boy. although the father
claim, that he is Mclaughlin says
'Ha' the mother was 10 have her son
InrI she remarked and that she for
ie'"i 'n.s privilege when she became
Nn H5t
DO granting the wife a divorce in the