The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-04-14
JUST WANTED
TO LOVE BABY
That Was Only Reason Why De.
mented Girl Kidnapped Llttio
Ono From
Buggy.
WANDERED THREE DAYS
Infant Was In Good Condition and Is
Now contented and
Back With
Mamma.
WANDERED THREE DAYS

limited Press Leased Wire Service. }
NEW YORK, April 13.-Wandering
aimlessly under the garish lights of
the tenderloin, the police tonigh,
found demented Annie Boyarsky, and
the ten months old baby Ruth Fleish-
man that the girl stole from Its car
rage before Mount Sinai hospital
Thursday morning. The demented
girl was wandering along. softly Groom
ing to the child, she carried tenderly
in her arms. Evidently she had been
walking the streets with the child for
the three days that the police have
searched for her
~ just wanted to love the baby.
wouldn't hurt IT, protested the de-
mented seventeen year old girl, as she
carried the little one to the Thirty
fifth street police station Despite
three days of wandering about the
streets the baby crowed contentealy
in the arms of the amateur mother
who had tenderly cared for it.
| The demented girl was found by
Carl Roselet. He met her at 31st
street and Broadway and became
suspicious that she was the missing
kidnaper and induced her to accom-
pany him until he met Traffic Police
man George Seller Seller identified
the girl and the baby at once, and
took them to the East Thirty-f1fth
street station. Later both she and the
child We're taken to the 10th street
station, where Moses Rappaport, uncle
of the little one appeared and identi-
fed the baby.
Here the seventeen year old girl
was put through An examination and
Mrs Abraham Fleishman, mother OF
the baby, was sent for. Mrs. fetish
man was in state of frantic hysteria
when she reached the station house
She and her mother demanded that
they be allowed to see the girl who
) had stolen Ruth.
LET me at that woman demanded
the little ones grandmother. Il wan
to get at her
; 1t was with the greatest difficult,
. that the police kept the hysterica
mother and grandmother from the
Boyarsky girl
When the excitement had somewha
subsidized and the Fleishman famil.
with their baby had departed happy
the police secured from Annie Boy
. arsyR an incoherent, vague tale of he
ffty-five hours wandering about New
York with baby in her arms.
The girl said that when she saw tn,
baby in its carriage before Mt. Sina
hospital she wanted to love it, so sh
took it with her She walked through
Central park with it, took trolle,
ride and went to a moving pictur
show
Late Thursday night, according t
3 her story, she went to the home of he
aunt, Clara Annis. in the Bronx, an,
L told her aunt that the baby had beel
: given her to take care of. She pei
: suaded her aunt, she said, to let he
t and the baby stay there through tn
. night. In the morning her aunt toll
9 her to take the baby back to its moth
e er, but instead she went tt movin!
9 picture show, and stayed there al
4 day She got money to buy food 70
K the baby and herself by begging alon
t the street she said.
8 Last night she contended she agai
+ slept with the baby at her aunt
s home. The police were unable t
f. verify this part of the girls story, an
s they declared tonight that they be
lieved the girl had slept in hallway
e and in the parks for the two night
J. that she had the baby. But they cal
5, not explain the perfect condition G
i, the little one, who would certainl
]. have shown the slightest effects c
two nights wanderings.