The Detroit times., 1911-12-09


Tramping the streets all night long,
in the rain and mud. in search of their
hve-year-old daughter, Ida, Mr.. and
Mrs. Isadore Schwartz. OF No. 407 ST.
Aptoine-st.. are ls~tracted. as
soth OF them fear that the child has
.ssen picked up by some degenerate
| and foully dealt with.
Ida Schwartz. pretty as a little pic
tdre, bright, and OF a trusting nature
that made every passerby her friend
and confidant, left the Day Nursery
o. the Florence Crittenten mission,
Elizabeth and st. Antoine-sts.. at IL
o'clock Friday morning, and has not
yet returned home.
The fact that she is able to tell any
one her address leads her parents to
uelieve that she is not held as lost
child, in some friendly shelter, as she
could make her identity known with
cut trouble
The whole neighborhood is greatly
excited over the case, the warm-
hearted, child-loving Jewish people
taking almost as feverish an interest
IAN every rumor and every angle OF the
i
were one OF their own family.
Nathan Chatlin, No. 392 ST. Antoine
ST, whose children were playmates OF
the little girl. AMI "Al'' Waldron. No.
233 Alfred-st.. were out all night, IN
the driving rain. with Detectives Dow
Iney and Fox. returning to their homes
at o'clock Saturday morning,
crenched and disneartened. but ready
| s.Ir. r@H he fIor ~.
| light, as soon as they snatched few
winks of sleep.
| The only traces of the child report
ed after she left the Day Nursery
with the other IA children, are fur
nished by a 15-year-old Negress, an
inmate OF the Florence Crittenton mis-
sion and by Chester Raymond Harris,
five-year-old son OF Harry Harris. a
grocer at ST. Antoine and Montcalm-
SITS. who attended the kindergarten
with little Ida. Their stories are
slightly conflicting.
The little Harris boy insists that as
they left the school tall white wo-
man accosted Ida, and promising 10
buy her some candy. led her north on
ST Antoine-st toward a bank at Gra-
tiot-ave. and st. Antoine. And he
sticks TO that story in a logged, child
ish way that cannot be shaken.
The little colored girl says that she
was returning to the mission from the
Russell school, a Russell and Eliot
sts.. shortly before o'clock, and met
ida, whom she knows we'll, walking
north OH Hastings-st.. near DIVISION
St. alone. She insists that she said
Hello" to Ida. and that the little girl
smiled and replied in kind, and then
trudged along.
schwartz the father. is nearly
crazed with grief, and while he
;ramps doggedly about in search OF
clues. his pale. frantic wife, with eyes
wild with suffering, follows=him like
q shadow. extending both arms to
everyone questioned, with the pitiful
appeal, spoken in German:
'My baby My beautiful baby. You
must give her back TO me.
Ida is their only child They are
each 80 years old. end have been mar
ried IL years They came to Detroit
from New York. only a year ago and
Baby Ida at once became the little
queen OF the neichborhood-
Miss s. W. Childs teacher in charge
of the Kindergarten which little Ida
attended called on the little girls
mother. Saturday morning, and there
VAS very touching scene as she told
what she knew OF the disappearance.
Miss Childs has gone with the officers
20 see every child in the kindergarten
10 ascertain II any OF them can give
any clue of the whereabouts OF the
missing girl.
Miss Lois McA,pine the assistant
rs the kiudergarteR, tela-the police
that she had pu' on lda's coat and
hat for her al 1880 Friday morning.
and that Ida had raced out with
Chester Raymond Harris, the little
boy who said that a woman promised
Ida some canry il she would come
with her. This corroborates the story
told by the lad Netue Fardman; ldas
chum. with whom she usually came
home from school was absent Frlu1y.
i The whole detective bureau. as well
as the police. are looking for the little
girl