New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-05-28
Four -Year-OId Freda lIbOWltz,
Kidnapped Sunday by Annie
BOyarSky. Deserted A.
ter CurIS Are Cut.
HUDDLED ON DOORSTEP
Taken to Station House, Child
Is Identified by Matron,
but Has Only Hazy
Idea of Her Wan
derings.

Freda Libowtz. the oUr-year-Old
girl who was kidnapped from her
home. No 4lj Wyona avenue. East
New York, on Sunday afternoon by
Annie Boyarsky. a young Russian girl
was found yesterday afternoon in East
1SGth street. The Bronx. She was
dressed in an old gray sweater, which
hid her little dress, and her long curls
had been shorn. leaving her hair close
cropped
It is probable the child. FOR which the
police of the entire city and many
thousands Of school children in East
New York have been looking for the
last two days. would not have been
Identified where IT not for the quick eye
Of Sarah Sullivan matron Of the Nor
risania police station.
Mrs. Sullivan received the child when
10 was taken To the station house. Al
that time the case was regarded az an
ordinary one OF lost baby. and the 20
lice had no idea that they had the
much sought Libowitz baby.
Identified by the Matron.
Mrs. sullivan, after feeding the little
girl and warming her IN hot blankets,
asked the lieutenant To show her he
missing" slips for the last few days.
After glancing over them she was sa:-
isded they had the Libowitz baby.
Mrs. Sullivan told the Lieutenant OF
her suspicious. and he communicated
with the police OF the Liberty avenue
station. in East New York. Detective
McKeon. " that precinct went TO The
Bronx with the Misses Rosa and Freda
Libowitz, aunts OF the child
AS soon as the young women caught
sight OF the little girl crawling about
on the floor OF the matron's room they
ran forward. holding out their arms.
The baby recognized them and began
10 laugh and clap her hands. The two
women positively identified the child
and were profuse in their thanks TO
Matron Sullivan.
Patrolman Trayuor. OF the fremont
avenue police station. who found the
Libowitz child, said he was walking IN
East lS6th street when he saw what
he thought was a bundle on the door
step OF No 45S. He found the bundle"
10 be little girl. and took her TO the
station house, whence she was sent TO
the Morrisania station. where there is
matron.
Child Tells Her Story.
Before being taken home, little E'reda
told her story as best she could. She
said she left her home with Annie
Bogarsky about o'clock Sunday af-
ternoon. and that after riding in cars
for a long time and walking for many
hours, she and Annie went TO a doctors
office. where the physician told Annie
her eye was sore, and treated il.
Annie then took her 20 another house,
Freda said, where they met man.
The next day (Monday) Annie took her
from tho house. and on Monday night
they slept in a hallway. Yesterday
the rode some more m trolley cars and
walked a lot. That was all Freda
could remember. She didn't know
when or where she had last seen An
ME, and didn't know how she came 10
be found in The Bronx.
The fact that the Libowitz child had
been found was not announced by the
police until late last night, in the hope
that Annie Boyarsky might be found
in the neighborhood. The police still
hope to obtain a sufficiently accurate
description Of the house where Freda
says she and Annie spent Sunday night
to enable them TO find 1t and thus trace
the Boyarsky girl.
Annie BOyarsky has taken babies
from their mothers before this. About
a year ago she took Ruth Fleischmann,
daughter OF Mrs. Abraham Fleisch-
mann. ~ No. 1887 Madison avenue.
from a baby carriage I'm front Of the
Mount Sinai Hospital. Two days
elapsed before Annie and the baby were
found. The girl had walked the streets
continually. begging for food for the
ia bv aud herself