New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-17
MOTHER HERE FOR WAITS
Overcome with Joy at Sight Of
Babies Saved from Titanic.
BACK TO FRANCE SATURDAY
Nine. Navratil Tells How Hus.
band, Lost at Sea, Stole Chill
dren Easter Morning.

Tho creat Titanic disaster has served the
CO good purpose Of reun!ting Nine. Michel
! NH,ra;il and the two beautiful little boys
. whom her husband stole from her. These
were the two waits, Michel and Edmond
known far and wide a - olo'' and Lump,
! y l,m Miss Margaret Hays found in the
! bottom of her lifeboat and cared for. The
| mother arrived i'm New York on the Oceanic
! Yesterday morning To hug them 80 her in
| an ccS'acy Of lo;e and gratitude for their
! restoration.
Mime Nayratil. who In spite of her deep
| experience of life "a q beautiful Italian
girI Of only twenty-onc years. had not seen
! hor babies since Easter. nor until the de-
tails Of the Titanic's sinking were published
ia she have an inklng II where they were.
Even then she could only entertain sus-
Iicion that the two rescued children moth
| cred by Miss HAYS were hers for the
French papers did not get their pictures for
some time after the Cdrpathia had landed
them in New York.
! She was living In Nice. where her hus-
band had been q fashionable tailor for
women. when al last a Paris paper printed
tho pictures of "l.oo' and Lump she
/ knew them for her own. still. shc needed
! further piooC. because they had sailed on
the Titau.c as the children OF Louis NJ
! Hoffman. second class passenger she
! took A picture Of her husband 10 the steam
! snip ticket agent 1T Monte carlo, and he
! identified II IS that Of the man VIII" had
| hooked passage on the Titanic for himself
and his two children az Louis NJ Hoffman
| The man went down with the ship.
In the mean time Miss Hays had sur
/ rendered the little boys to the Society for
! the Prevention Of Cruelty TO Children. THIS
organi2a ton set on foot an inquiry for the
mother in France. The White star Line
/ became satisfied OF the young mother
| Identity and provided her free passage tc
/ America in the second cabin Of the Oceanic
Feared She Might Be Wrong
Tho dreadful suspense Of that voyage was
heightened in the mothers mind by th'
! fear that possibly those two cherubs whon
| she was travelling so far to claim "ou'
turn out Ia be strangers. Miss HAYS an'
Frank =. Hays. Miss Hayss father an'
Thomas -. Walsh. superintendent or th'
| Chidrens Society. were at tho pier 10 NEE
her She could hardly walt for the Gus
toms officers Ia examine her baggage pu
she found time to express TO MISS haN'
her profound gratitude FOR the latters low
ing care Of her children. once the MADDEN
ing formalities at the pier were over Su
rerintendent Walsh conducted her To a taxi
cab and together they droy" 10 the Chil
dren's Society Building. at Fourth avenue
and 23d street.
An elevator shot them To- the hftn moor
where Mile Rose Bruno. OF Elkins PARK
Philadelphia. cousin ~ Nine" NaNraul
waited with the children In the nurses
parlor Superintendent Walsh opened th'
door and then stole away. leaving the pretty
Young mother. dressed entirely In black
framed In the open doorway. Mile. bruno
ted him later what happened
Michel four years old. Gazed al h''
mother a moment struggling with his tears
being a stole 10y nature. while Edmond two
years and half. became Immediately III
owes and mouth Then both cried 'oh
maman. oh. maman'" and rushed INTO h"i
aims. while all three broke down aho
sobhed ont their JOS unrestrainedly.
Some two hours aftcrward the mother
| corsentcd 20 tell her story. In French. ana
ain later she went to bed with SICK
headache. on tho verge Of complete break