The Detroit times., 1911-12-11
TO PROSECUTE GIRL WHO
ABDUCTED IDA SCHWARTZ
Little Victims Father Will
Swear Out Warrant For
Myrtle Milan.

Isidore Schwartz, of No. 407 st. An
toine-st., whose five-year-old daughter
Ida, was kidnapped by Myrtle Milan,
OF Clare, INCH, who was living here
with her sweetheart, Joseph Black, or
Franklin, Mich, and gave her name as
RS Joseph Robinson when arrested,
following the return Of the child, will
swear out warrant against the young
woman, charging abduction.
The police are still holding Myrtle
and the man who posed as her hus-
band, but had decided TO release the
pair, as 1t was reported that Schwartz,
father OF the kidnapped child, would
not prosecute, but Schwartz declares
that he never made such a staten Mt,
and believes that the young woman
should be punished.
Myrtle, who 'fibbed" most duently
at the time of her arrest, turns oubvte
be young woman with very sordid
career, and her abduction of little Ida
Schwartz, is taken with grain OF
salt by the police, as well as by the
parents of the kidnapped child.
A man named Fay Yowry is now in
Jail in Pontiac, charged with stat
utory offense against the girl who is
only 10 years old. Myrtle looks to be
at least 25. She Is pretty, blonde,
with dark brown eyes.
Myrtle cries bitterly when she
thinks OF going to Panoitc as a wit
ness against Lowry. She says she
hates him, breads to face him, and
blames him for all of her trouble. The
police in Pontiac, however, have
searched for her In vain, until they
got trace of her through her arrest
here.
Myrtle's father says that someone
has been impersonating him In talk
ing with Schwartz He Is very peeved
about It, and declines to discuss his
daughters case in any way.
Myrtle herself, believing that she is
not TO be prosecuted for her escapade.
says that she is going TO marry Joe
Black, with whom she has lived for
four weeks on Meldrumave., whether
her father likes 1t or not.
Myrtle says that she was lonely,
which Is the reason she gives for
stealing the Schwartz child away from
the door of the Florence Crittenton
mission. At the same time, she says
she doesn't know whether she viii
adopt baby or not. If she marries
Black. and says that Black is not par
ticularly fond of babies
She says that she cried for two
weeks. and didn't sleep, because of
loneliness.
Myrtle created a scene in the de-
tective bureau, Monday morning.
when newspaper men tried to inter
view her.
You're all bunch OF young sports !;
that's what you are" she cried. "I've
got you all sized up. I@Euess\I can
size up a young fellow all right I've
had enough experience" ~
She screamed at her father TO keep
his mouth shout. and the father, Ja-
cob Milan. of Clare. Mich. promptly
obeyed, paying marked tribute TO the
parental control over his wayward
daughter.
"Tf | thought this girl was young,
tenderhearted girl. whose mother
love prompted her TO take my baby.
and IL she were a good girl at heart.
should be the last man to want to
punish her" says kind-hearted Isl
dore Schwartz. But he added Il
understand that there is man i'm
Jail on her account that she Is liv-
ing with another young man not her
husband. and want TO find out more
about her motives in this case. will
apply for a warrant against her. ]
never said that I would not prosecute
her. and think that the case should
come To court trial"
II took a lot of questioning by Capt
Mcdonnell. Saturday afternoon. TO get
the girl TO admit kidnapping Ida
Schwartz, and tell something OF her
own history.