El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-10-21
.BOYSDISAPPEAR :
IN TOURING CAR
Auto Driver Takes Message
to Their Mother and
Is Arrested.

Receiving a telephone call shortly af-
ter noon Tuesday. ordering touring
car TO be sent TO the corner Of stanton
and Texas streets. o. C. CrismOr. of the
Hotel TaXicab and Auto company. sent
y. L. Crlsamore, one of his drivers AT
irving at the corner, a middle aged man
with two boys hailed the car ana an
We're driven through the streets 10 the
county road .
The two boys placed in the big tour
ing car were Tom and John Hunter a-e
and II respectively. who have been e
siding with their mother. Mrs lone l.
hunter, 4l6 North stanton street Slls
told a Herald reporter WEDNESDAY,
morning that she believes her two sons
We're taken by their father from Eistn
she says she has been separated Iof
Jhree years The husband ana I4.ns-s
J. ;. Hunter, IS a mining man eihpt2ye4
at Douglas, and Mrs. Hunter said She
city.
Mrs Hunter says the driver. OF the
touring car and his employer declined
10 inform her where the children were
taken. Upon returning from MS Trip,
which Mrs Hunter believed TO nave
been 70 some nearby railroad sJallon III
New Mexico. the driver Of the autcmo-
bile went TO the home Of drs. Hunter
and told her that he had taken her Two
boys out Of the city and state and That
they were in charge Of their father
CrlSamOre told Mrs. Hunter. she says
that her husband requested him 70 con-
vey the message. but asked him not 10
tell her where he had gone on the auto
ride with the children
Has Auto Driver Arrested.
Mrs. Hunter had the automobile
driver arrested Tuesday night upon
complaint filed before justice OF me
peace J. J. Murphy. The driver was re
leased on S200 bond which was 1ur-
nished by o. c. Crismor, and The hear
ing on a charge Of kidnapping viii be
tried this afternoon before judge Mur-
ply.
Mrs. Hunter when interviewed. said:
For the past three years my husband,
]. s Hunter, mining man, and myself,
have been separated Each Of US has
had one Of the boys during lnls llInr'
alternating every few months me old
est boy, John. was with his-f2ther most
Of the time, but about a month ago ne
sent him TO me.
The two boys have been working for
several weeks at Everybody's depart
ment store Tuesday / sent them 10
work early in the morning and Lave
not seen or heard from them since. eX-
cepting through an automoDiie urlFer
for the Hotel TaXicab and Auto COM
pany. who came to my house TUESDAY
evening, shortly before o'clock. and
said that he had driven the father ana
two boys out Of the state that the
father had told him not to tell where re
took them. I asked him II they caught
a train but he declined further TO talk
1 had him arrested in an effort 10 10
cate my two sons who ] am very 1nN-
ious to get back. I am afraid they have
been taken to Mexico.
CrismOr Tells of Call.
O. C. Crismor. of the Hotel Taxicab
and Auto company. in speaking Of the
case. said. a touring car was ordered
by phone to be at the Everybody.s de-
partment store Tuesday afternoon and
/ sent one oil my drivers. '. L Crlsamore,
to the place. The next / heard from him
was last evening when he called me by
telephone and said he had been arrest
ed I went TO the police station and
learned from him that he had driven
man and two boys out Of the city and
the man told him TO return TO 4lb North
oregon street and tell the mani vie
that he had taken the children. rhelr
sons, and that they were going 10 be
well cared for and not 10 worry This
message was conveyed to the woman,
who had the driver arrested because he
would not tell 10 what point he drove
them. Ny drivers are instructed TO
carry out the orders Of their passengers
and not divulEe where they are going
or disclose business secrets I cannot
see how the driver could be arrested for
kidnapping
CrisamOre Acquitted.
Y. L Crisamore was discharged by
Justice J. J. Murphy Wednesday at-
ternoon. The justice held that, as
Hunter and his wife had not been di-
vOrced. Hunter had as much right TO
the children as his wife