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WIDOWS SON
Nurse Was Suspicious and
Saved Lad.
CULPRITS IN AUTOMOBILE
Mrs. Charles L. spier, the chfId's
Mother, Lives In Fear, as She Says
She Is the Victim Of Plot to Pre-
vent Murder Expose.

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Mother, Lives In Fear, as She Says
| She Is the Victim of a Plot to Pre-.
vent Murder Expose.
Asbury Park. N j., April 5-Two
men in an automobile made a bold at
tempt 10 kidnap Charles Louis Spier.
| the three-year-Old son of Mrs. Charles
L. Spier. whose husband, once conf
Dental secretary to Henry H. Rogers.
Of New York, was shot to death at
StapletOn, S. l., In 1906.
The would-be kidnapers drove their
automobile to the side of the board
walk and quickly alighing. accosted
the little boys nurse and endeavored
to wean the lad away from her. The
colored girl, suspecting that something
was wrong. and having been frequent
ly warned by her mistress to be care
hurried her charge away from the two
men, who. finding their plan suspect
ed and not wishing to attract the at
tention of strollers on the boardwalk.
jumped into their machine and were
soon lost to view.
Mother Lives In Fear.
Upon arriving at the Spier home. on
Eighth avenue. the girl told the story
to Mrs. Spier who said she had not
authorized any one to call for the lit.
tie boy on the boardwalk and take
him to ride in an automobile as the
two men pretended she-had
Mrs. Spier was much wrought up
over the occurrence and consulted Po-
lice Chief William H. Smith, who ad-
.vised her to keep quiet until some
clew could be obtained. Mrs Spier
decided to make the facts public. hop.
ing it might Illustrate any other de-
sign upon her boy.
Ever since the death of her husband
Mrs. Spier has been living in constant
fear. She moved from Stapleton tC
Asbury Park. and for the past three
summers has occupied a pretty little
bungalow at Como, where she felt un.
der less restrainst.
Receives Many Threats.
sic Bays, nave U6cu iudue
against her own life and that her chile
would be taken from her. These sbe
has received in different forms. from
time To- Tina and she@4hae hesn CON
-stantfy on her guard
The two men in the automobile wore
1cng automobile coats. One of them
was described as tall and slender and
of blind complexion. He wore" check.
cred cap and asked the colored girl
If she was Mrs. Spier's maid. The girl
said she was. whereupon the man said
Mrs. Spier was going auto riding with
them. and that she had sent for the
boy. The man reached for the lad. but
the nurse insisted that she would take
him home herself. The little fellow
clung to the maids skirts With an
unpleasant glare the two men. motto |
ing strullers in the n6ighborhood. ex-
claimed:
''Oh. Well. we will be at the house |
when yot get there" apd departed.
Work to Clear Husbands Name.
Mrs. Spier regards it as significant
that the attempt to kidnap her little |
son was made the first time he had
been out without her. which leads her
to believe that she is continually be |
ing watched. She believes. moreover |
that the attempted kidnapping and the
threats against her own life are part
of a plot instfgated after the death of
her husband and which are the result |
of her energy in securing evidence
to prove that her husband was the vic
tim of conspiracy and was not a |
suicide, as was said after the finding
of his body in their Stapleton home.
Mrs. Spier refuses to disclose the
nature of the plot or the names of
those whom she believes are concern.
ed in it. but she is firmly convinced
that in a short time she win be able
to clear her husbands name and es-
tablish the factzthat he was murdered
and did not take his own life.