Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-06-11
Trying to Carry Off His Two Children.

wife was there and one morning, be-
fore daylight, an automobile drew up
in front of the hotel and & man
alighted. He gave a whistle, and 1t
was heard by one of the nurses en-
ployed by Mrs. Phipps, who must have
been in league with the father. The
nurse awakened the boys, told them
they were to go away, and carefully
took them downstairs without arousing
the sleeping mother, who was in an
adjoining room. The boys were put
into the automobile and whisked
away. Mrs. Phipps awoke soon after
ward to find them gone, and, dfvining
what had happened, rushed to the tel
ephone and informed her lawyers of
their disappearance. Joining them,
She hurried to Jersey City and there
encountered her husband with the lit
tie boys, on a train for Pittsburg but
though she called on the police to re-
turn the children to her, it was Mr.
Phipps' game at that point, and he
went away with his sons in his pos
session
Sensation in City Streets.
Another father who stole his own
children was Frank E. Albinger. who
furnished a great chase up Seventh
his wife were separated, and, one
afternoon, meeting his oldest son out
walking with the two smaller children.
the father took them. He was soon
followed, and the public had the spec
tacle of mounted police, bicycle po-
lice, policemen on foot and the frantic
mother and her friends pursuing the
father and the three children.
Agnes Doherty, the dancer wife of
Billy Inman, an actor, figured in a
hot pursuit of her husband down
Broadway, New York, to the entrance
of the Brooklyn bridge one afternoon.
Mr.. Inman had tried to kidnap their
small son and nearly succeeded.
Then there was Mrs. William Nc
Greevy, who also had separated from
her husband. Mr.. McGreevy kidnapped
their small boy, and took him from
New York to Stamford, Conn. Nothing
daunted, Mrs. McGreevy went to
Stamford and stole the boy back
Again the father got the lad, and once
more the mother regained possession
of him. 1t was finally settled by the
court dividing the custody of the boy
between his parents
Other Famous Cases.
The children of John E Madden. the
famous horseman, were the objects of
parental kidnapping on more than one
occasion before the courts finally
stepped in and made a decision that
arranged definitely for their custody
James Cook was kidnapped by his
mother at Jamaica, L. l., and the po-
lice hunted her down. Mrs. Ida May
Wood was arrested after sensational
abduction of her own daughter in
Brooklyn; Mrs Ethel Terrell of Chi
cago kidnapped her two little girls from
the hiding place their father had Sc
lected for them in Kenosha, Wis;
Mrs. Charles Roster of New Bruins
wick, N. J., stole her three-year-old
son from his fathers house; E. G..
Holden of Hackensack figured in the
papers when he took his daughter
-from her mother-the list is almost
endless
1t all goes to show that there is a
love which rises superior to law and
the DEGREES of courts A woman may,
without a pang. leave the man she has
sworn to honor through life. A man
may see her whom he promised to
cherish go from his side, and never
shed a tear. But when there are chill
dren concerned it is different Nothing
can ever replace them Nothing can
for the little ones So, while there
are children. and while men and
women break their marital ties, we
cases as these, where the only crime
is in stealing what belongs to you,
anyway,