New-York tribune., 1910-06-29
BOY STILL OUT OF SIGHT
But Mclaughlin Thinks He Is
Safe with His Mothers Sister.
WILL TRY TO GET HIM BACK
Husband of Real Estate Man S
First Wife Says They Will
Keep Child from Father.

Michael L. Mclaughlin, the Brooklyn real
estate man, whose eight-year-old son was
kidnapped on Monday as he was playing
on the lawn of his fathers new home near
Albany returned to the Cosmopolitan
Hotel, at West Broadway and Chambers
street. last night. and said he had not
found out yet where his boy was
Mr. Mclaughlin said. however, that he
had not been conducting serious hunt for
his son yesterday, as he was convinced that
the. mother of the boy, who got a divorce
from him IN February, 1906 was responsible
for the Kidnapping, and that the boy was
probably In the hands of his former Wife
relatives at Edmiston, y. Y. He felt sure.
he said that the boy was safe and well
cared for at least. ~"
II don't intend to do anything in the
matter just at present. Mr.. Mclaughlin
said last night, ''for | am willing that the
boy should make a visit TO his aunt, Mrs.
Blanche Payne in the country at Edmiston,
and 1 feel sure that is where his mother
has taken him. But of course | am not
willing that he should stay permanently or
for any length of time with his mother,
and l shall bring the proper proceedings, II
he is kept there, TO enforce my rights to
him.
Mr.. Mclaughlin said that the aunt, Mrs.
Payne, was the only one of his former
w-ife's family who had been fair and i'm
partial to both sides all through the diff
cuties of the last three years and he had
willingly designated her at the time of the
divorce to be the temporary custodian of
his son. He said ne expected TO get in
communication with the boys mother soon,
and it probably would be arranged to send
the boy away TO school
The first Mrs. Mclaughlin is now the
wife of DR.. Henry P Holt. of No 2423
Church avenue. Flatbush who said last
night that his wife was not at home. He
intimated that she and the kidnapped boy
were with Mrs. Holts sister at Edmiston.
The doctor believed that Mrs Holt would
send her son to school at Pennington.
n. J.. if she thought that the McLaugh-
Inns could not reach him there. He said
his wife might bring the boy to their Flat
bush home in which case, he said, he
would take every precaution to keep the
McLaughlins from taking him away.
DR.. Holt said he had heard that Mr.. Nc
Laughlin had kept the boy prisoner at
his summer home, near Albany, and that
that was the reason Mrs. Holt had kept a
watch on the movements of the McLaugh-
him while they were away. Her chance.
the doctor said, came on Monday, and Mrs
Holt was quick to take advantage of it,
The McLaughlins had come to New York.
partly on business and also to visit Mrs
McLaughlin's mother and her brother, In
Brooklyn.
Mrs Mclaughlin before she came to
Manhattan to see her husband said that
her husband would at once take legal
steps TO regain the custody of his son.
She said that Justice Jaycox when he
| awarded decree of divorce to the first
Mrs Mclaughlin, had given her the legal
custody of the child, but that Mr. Nc
Laughlin would base his action on the
ground Of improper guardianship
Mr. Mclaughlin was a boyhood sweet
heart of Mrs. Holt, who was then CeceIia
Benjamin. He went to BROOKLYN from
Cleveland in 1900 on the advice of Sena-
tor Hanna 10 deal in real estate and for
some years was very successful A wear
after making his home in Brooklyn he
made Miss Benjamin his wife BEFORE her
marriage she was a stanch adherent of
Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy