New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-06-16
BOY ACCUSES
OWN MOTHER
AS KIDNAPPER
Husband and Wife, Sep
arated, Meet Again in
Police Station as Result.

A man, woman and boy were coming
d rwn the stairs OF the Harlem station
Of the New York, New Haven & Hart
ford Yesterday afternoon when some
thing in the actions of the boy aroused
the attention of Patrolman Dominick
Bligh.
I'm being Kidnapped! Save mel"
the boy cried out as Bligh took a step
in his direction.
The woman hailed taxicab. Strug-
Cling the boy refused to enter. Bligh
put a restraining hand on the chIuf
feur.
whats the trouble" he asked the
woman.
Pm the boys mother" me answered
and got into the cab She was fol-
lowed by the man, who was attempting
to pull the boy in after him.
The woman's explanation did not sat
isfy the policeman. In the taXicab they
drove off TO the East 10th Street sta
ton, a few blocks away.
The woman gave her name as Mrs.
Alice Hansl saying she was the wife Of
Or. Proctor W. Hansl, president of the
Seth Moyle Gnc.) international Ser
vice to Authors and Publishers, Of 2S6
Fifth Avenue. Her husband did not live
with her, Mrs. Hansl said, but at IS
East Forty-frst Street, while she lived
at 800 West Eightieth Street She gave
the name of the boy as Proctor W.
Hansl, jr., twelve years old. Her COM
panion, she said, was her brother.
Dr. Hansl was summoned. He seemed
greatly surprised, but took the boy to
him and comfOrtcd him.
To the police he told the story Of his
separation from his wife three years
ago. They have three children, two Of
whom, n boy and a girl, are at school
in Nalhalla. y. Y, Proctor had been in
delicate health, according TO his father,
and had just returned from school in
South Carolina, which had closed for
the summer.
ave had agreed to send our son to
Join his brother and sister at the
school in Valhalla," DR.. Hansl said.
"Only an hour or so ago my wife, her
brother and myself went to the Grand
Central Station. There left them
with the unders landing they were to
accompany the boy to Valhalla. don't
see why they stopped off at 10th
Street Station"
DR.. Hansl said he and his wife had
been having trouble over specialists
for the boy. The father had obtained
medical men who he considered were
competent, but his wife objected to
them.
Mrs. Hansl explained to Lieutenant
Loughman that when they reached
125th Street she decided to get off
with the boy and to take him to a
physician in the west side of Harlem.
The physician, she said, had treated
one Of her other children successfully.
Proctor would not leave his father.
It was finally agreed that for the sake
of having the boy get to his destina-
tion he should be intrusted to the care
Of DR.. Hansl.
When DR.. Hansl's brother, Arthur F.
Hansl, lawyer, was seen at his home,
306 West Eightieth Street, last night,
he said he had not heard from his
brother in several months, but knew
there had been trouble between the
couple. lie was angry at the fact that
his brother, DR.. Hansl, and his wife had
used his address as that of her home,
as neither of the two had ever lived
there, Dr. Hansl, he said, lived some
where below Fifth Avenue.
At Is East Forty-frst Street and 2s6
Fifth Avenue janitcrs denied that Dr.
Hansl or his wife lived at either place.