The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-05-31
Mrs. Anna Ferry Finds Little
Daughter in Topeka.
Had Been Abandoned by the Di-
vOrced Husband.
Will TAKE HER HOME.
Must First Get Release From
AtchisOn District Court.
Meanwhile Child Is in Custody
of Juvenile Court.

After days and nights of tireless
searching Mrs. Anna Ferry today sue
ceeding in finding Hazel Jones, her s.
year-old daughter, whom the woman
had not seen for more than two years.
For five days and nights Mrs. Ferry
has walked the hard paved streets peer
ing anxiously into the face of every
child she met. Now that she has found
her daughter, the woman will take her
TO the little Ferry farm near Bean
Lake. Mo.
1t was more than five years ago when
Mrs. Ferry-then Mrs. Anna Jones
could no longer stand the alleged
abuses of her husband and sought a
divorce in the Atchison county court.
But the court gave the child to the GUS
6ody of the father.
At that time Jones owned a large
hotel in Atchison. He also held a
municipal job that payed s120 month.
He was well able to care for little 3
year-old Hazel and to give her the
comforts of life. In his decree the
Atchison county judge provided that
the child should be kept in the juris-
k1iction of the court. The mother should
also be allowed to visit her baby once
each week. This arrangement contin-
Oed nearly three years.
One day Mrs. Jones went to Atchi-
son to see the child. She was gone.
inquiry showed that Jones has dispos-
ed of his interests in Atchison and
brought tINe little girl to Topeka. But
when she visited Topeka she failed to
md the child. Heartbroken the moth
er returned to her home near Bean
Lake. Anxiously has she written let
4ers to Topeka, but the child was not
found.
Abandoned the Child.
1t is reported that after coming to
vTopeka Jones Squandered his small for
tune and for more than year has
been employed as a day laborer. The
civ MI ond needs not
always supplied. She was denied as
sociates and the privileges of school
education which other little girls en-
joyed. Often in little room in lone
" boarding house Hazel was compel-
ed to spend long weary days Gradu-
ally she was taught to forget the
mamma of her baby days
Then Jones was seemingly driven to
a last resort. Without money II 10
stated that Jones sought to escape the
expense and care of the little girl One
day almost six weeks ago. he sent little
Hazel to live at a new home. NO one
seems to know to whom the child was
sent but for more than four weeks
Hazel was cared for at this home. Then
a strange thing happened. One night
two weeks ago two men and a woman
went to the home Of Chas- }. Hops;
1135 Brooks avenue. Here they asKeC'
the Hobs family to care for the chllo.
Thev stated that Jones had failed to
nay for it's care, that the woman at the
home was sick and it was necessary to
find a new home for the girl. At the
Hobs home it was learned that the
child's mother was living near Bean
Lake.
THE next day a letter went to the
mother-who since her former divorce
has married A. w. Ferry, a well to DO
farmer On the next train Mrs. Ferry
started to Topeka. At the home on
Brooks avenue was her first disap-
MONUMENT. No one there knew where
the child was being kept. Mrs. Ferry
feared to make public her search lest
the father hide the child from her.
At the police station last week she
told her story to Chief Morris Jenkins.
Every member of the Topeka force was
furnished with a description of Frank
Jones, the father, but he was not found.
The mother could not give very clear
description of her child, but she felt
she would know the girl if she met her.
Child Found This Morning.
For five days she walked the streets
until late in the nights, looking for her
child. At the police station the grief
stricken mother wrung her hands and
urged the officers to make renewed eff
forts. But each night the result was
the same. Hope in the mothers breast
WAS at low ebb when she left the sta
tion this morning in company of an Of
Ulcer. But the search had continued
less than an hour when Hazel was
found-in the very shadow of the sta
tion-and in a district that had been
canvassed a dozen times before.
Playing in yard at Third and Jack
son treets were three little girls Sud
denly the woman stopped. She grasped
the officers and almost reeled as she
cried:
There she is, there she is. Don't you
zee her?''