The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-22
KIDNAPPED GIRL
NOW PRISONER
Mother Says She Rescued
Young Woman From
Evil Influences.

Nyack, y. y. January 2i.-Iva NJ.
Cells. the young school teacher who
was taken in an automobile on Friday
last from St. Johns School in Phiells.
y. Y, by her mother, Mrs Aibretta
Cells. and her mothers niece, Mrs.
Byron PoIhemus, is now prisoner
IN the Polhemus home in Pierremont
Avenue. near Gessner Avenue.
She Is critically i'll and Is constantly
under the care of a physician. Her
mother told a reporter tonight
she took her daughter away to release
her from the evil influences.
Nelson Rose. si1ty-six years old.
wealthy farmer of Phieiis. a trustee Of
st. Johns School. and his sons. Tibet
and Purdy. in whose home Miss Cells
lived, threaten to get out writ OF
habeas corpus on the ground the young
woman is being detained against her
will
The Roses assert they will be able
TO prove when Mrs. Cells and Mrs.
Polhemus appear before Justice Cy-
rillus Myers in Haverstraw on Thurs
day next charged with kidnapping.
that the young woman ia twenty-five
years old and that her life has been
made unpleasant by her relatives.
They say she will return with them to
their home in Phiells % her own volition-
Mrs. Cells said the Roses have her
daughter absolutely under their in
fiuence. and that she was compelled
TO employ the tactics she did after re-
ceiving numerous letters from per-
sons in Phieils telling her of condi-
tions under which the teacher was
living Mrs. Cells said she cannot
understand what strange influence 1t
is that could hold her daughter from
her own home for year.
f"Daughter Under SPELL"
My daughter left home year ago
70 teach school in Phiells,' Mrs. Cells
said There are about eight scholars
Since leaving she never has come back
to her home in Nyack. not even at
vacation slime or at Christmas.
Il determined 10 investigate, and
went 20 Phiells Ny daughter was
living in the Rose home. on my first
visit and on subsequent ones / was
treated inhospitabIy. | had 70 sleep
in the home OF a neighbor of the Roses
Things were made so unpleasant for me
that / ceased my visits. My daughter
undoubtedly was under a spell
Then ! began to get letters from
neigh bors informing me of conditions
was more convinced than ever that
the Rose home was not the proper
place for my daughter when persons
in Phielis wrote to the State super
intendcnt asking him TO revoke her
teaching license The State superIn-
icndent turned the Gaze over to the
county superintendent OF schools IN
Rockwell county and he Investigated.
The county superintendent went
20 Rose and questioned him. but Rose
ridicuIcd the story | then consulted
a lawyer and he advised me to kldnap
my daughter. got a high-povered
car. drove to Phiells and took her from
the school
Villagers Angry.
The inhabitants OF Phiells are in
censed against Rose and his sons.
They assert the scandal has brought
shame on the county. and indignation
is expressed whenever the topic Is
brought Up.
Purdy Roses wife II in Nevada
seeking a divorce. This. coupled with
the fact that he seems to have a strange
influence over the young teacher. makes
him particularly unpopular in Phiells
Miss Cells Is a delicate. refined. I'M
sophisticated girl" George II Wyre.
attorney for the Young woman mother.
said tonight when asked about the
case she has lived in the country
all her life. There isn't any doubt she
il under the spell Of tho Roses. chiefly
Purdy He's handsome fellow and Is
lust the type a girl like Miss Cells
would be swayed by"