The Detroit times., 1913-12-26
HIS LIFE-WORK
IS TO FIND HIS
MISSING CHILD
Michael Sullivan Starts Syste-
matte Effort To Fulfill Prom
Use to Wife
LITTLE DAUGHTER WAS
STOLEN THREE YEARS AGO
Child is Believed to Have Been
Kidnapped by Woman at Pic
ture Show
LITTLE DAUGHTER WAS
STOLEN THREE YEARS AGO

NEW YORK, Dee 26-To fulfil a
promise made to his wife. Alice. on
her deathbed that he woul devote his
life TO the search for his 1l-yearold
daughter. nelen, who vanished on
her way home from school al Sew.
enty-seyenth-st. and Thrd-aVe IN
June l. 1910. Michael A. sullivan, who
has charge OF the private stable OF
Charles Lehman, The brewer. has
rented an apartment at No AZ West
Sixty -second-st., from where be and
his friends will conduct the hunt.
Mrs. sullivan herself had followed
every clue and suggestion that came
to the family until finally. she could
no longer leave her bed Then came
4 nervous malady which resulted IN
death on Sept s last
My wfes last words TO me We're.
that must not rest until / had found
little Helen dead or alive" said Mr..
sullivan TO reporter for The World.
-Sttr brfiuved TINT tteteH WAS nrJTr-
dered, but have hoped. and still
trust that some woman kidnapped her
and that the little girl is alive Many
readers OF the World have sent me
itNlNlH anu uteNIlpllpuS VI Kills lllff
saw in various parts OF the country
whom they believed 10 be Helen, but
80 far they have been fruitless. My
chief hope now is that somebody who
reads this viii write TO me that Helen
is alive If she has been kidnapped
| will gladly forgive the person who
took her away. All ask Is that she
be left somewhere where can get
her"
Mrs. Sullivan was SO years old and
in robust health when Helen, then
eight years old, Was pupil in public
school No. III. at Seventy-seyenth-st
and Lexington-ave. The family at
that time lived at No 300 East Sey-
enty-eighth-st
On the afternoon OF June /. 1910
Helen and several other little girls
in her classroom were kept after
school for some infraction of rules
At 1915 Alice. Helens older sister
who now acts as housekeeper 10 the
family, usually went home with her
but on that day Alice had already left
The neighborhood when Helen was
dismissed
With Harriet Lederer. seven years
old OF No. IL East Seyenty-fourth-st.
Helen started for home. walking down
Seventy -seyenth-st TO Third.iye.
There the children were attracted by
colored posters in front OF a moving
picture show. Harriet soon tired of
he pictures, but Helen insisted on
standing there little longer. That
vas the last time any OF Helen 5
friends or relatives saw her.
Mrs Dunbar cashier of the pie
ture show, later told Mr.. Sullivan and
detectives Of the East Sixty seventh
ST. station that she recalled having
sold two tickets 10 little girl whose
description closely tailed with that
OF Helen sullivan She said that the
girl was accompanied BY a medium
.ized women who wore "A heavy black
silk dress
The complete description given to
me by Mrs Dunbar cOnyinces me that
She is correct in believing the little
Girl to be my daughter and am
certain the woman who was With the
child kidnapped her. Mr. sullivan said
as he looked over a heap OF letters
and notes which he has collected since
the search began. II think that Helen
now II years old may see and recog-
nize her mothers picture and write
10 me"
Every cellar and roof along the
route usually taken by Helen from the
school TO her home was searched by
the police and private detectives en-
gagged by Mr. Lehman. but they did
not find trace OF even the school
books which the child carried. All
OF these books--there were four
had the girls name and the stamp OF
the board OF education in them.
After the east side had been raked
over the sullivan family moved over
TO West Sixteth-st They stayed there
until the early part OF last summer.
when Mrs Sullivan became so weak
she had 10 be taken to the noun
tains. She was buried In Newport. X.
I. the home of her husband.
I'm the West Sixty st. house
Alice sullivan IL years old. now-per-
forms the part OF little mother" 20
her two older brothers. Harry and
Michael. She is a pupil in the Paulist
Fathers parochial school at Column
bus.aye. and Fifty-ninth-st
Nearly every afternoon Alice and
her father go over to the east side.
They have asked the salespeople in
the stores TO request customers to
make inquiry I'm their neighborhoods
for some clue
Mother will not be here for Christ
mas this year. but ! viii decorate
tree Just the same" Alice said Per
haps Santa Claus will make me happy
by returning sister, who IS more to
me than all the dolls IN the world.