The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1917-01-05
TRAVELS LONG
DISTANCE FOR
MISSING BABY
Widow of German Army Lieuten.
ant Journeys to Jamestown
To Get Child Back
ANOTHER CHAPTER IS
ADDED TO DAY CASE
Husband Mrs. Lulu Day Says He
Will Give Up II Months Old
Infant Without Contest
(Spccial to The Tribune.) J

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Jamestown, n. D., Jan. 5.-A little
eleven-months- light brown. curly
haired baby believed to be the kid
mapped child of Mrs. Anna Schneider.
widow of German army lieutenant
who was killed in battle three days
after the birth of the baby, this morn
ing rolled her big eyes and wondered
what it is all about.
Mrs. Anna Schneider of Berkeley,
CAL, journeyed half way across the
United States. reaching here last night
to claim the baby, alleged to have
been kidnapped by Mrs. Lulu Day,
wife of Northern Pacific railroad
mechanic here and now being held
for the theft of $4,000 worth of dia-
monds and jewelry at San Diego.
Just three weeks ago, requisitiOn
papers were procured for the return
Of Mrs. Lulu Day to San Diego, appli-
cation being made by Mrs. Olive
Chamber, police matrOn Of that city,
and deputy sheriff. AS no charge
of kidnapping was lodged against the
woman, the little daughter was left
here. s.".,',
Wants Her Baby Rack.
II don't want to talk to newspaper
men, | want my baby back" Mrs.
Schneider declared as she alighted
from Northern Pacific train last
evening. All attempts to get an inter-
view with the woman failed. Her only
answer to a battery of questions shot
at her was: 81 want my baby
Mrs. Schneider is of dark complex
ion and has dark hair. The baby, the
alleged kidnapped child, believed to
be Lulu Wanda Schneider, is fair with
light. brown, curly hair.
Husband Would Give Up Child.
George Day, husband OF Mrs. Lulu
Day, declares the he will give up the
baby without any contest.
The alleged kidnapping of little
Lulu Wanda Schneider by the Day
woman has resulted in search cover
ing the western half of the United
States and extending over period of
seven months.
The story told by Mrs. Schneider,
believed to be the mother of the infant,
is that it was taken on May q, last
that Mrs. Day, who had been living
with Mrs. Schneider at 1899 Francisco
street in Berkeley, in the home of
John Agee, an artist, took the baby
for visit to friends in San Jose at
whose homes Mrs. Day was to visit,
but they had not seen the woman for
whom the search was shortly after
wards instituted and which covered
the western half of the United States.
Trunk Had Been Removed.
Mrs. Schneider is said to have re-
turned to her home, to find that Mrs.
Days trunk had been removed from
the house. Becoming alarmed, she
communicated with the police and
families in San Jose, but they had not
seen the woman.
Mrs. Schneider then took her fight
to persons in San Diego. where she
had been employed, following the.
death of her husband, and then to Ell
Paso, former home of Mrs. Day. No
trace of the woman nor the baby
could be found by the mother, so the
police were notified.
Wanted For Jewelry Theft.
On the day that Mrs. Lulu Day left
Berkeley with Mrs Schneider's baby,
it is said that the police of that city
received request from the San Diego
police to arrest Mrs. Day and hold her
for the theft of $2,5OO worth of jewelry
from the Rogers home. The quest for
the woman took on added zeal when
the charge of kidnapping was added
by Mrs. Schneider.
Mrs. Schneider whom death had
robbed of every living relative save
the baby grieved until she was pros
trated over the loss of the little one
and personally communicated with
every police chief in the western
states who were also communicated
with by the Berkeley people and
police. Mrs. Schneider held to the
theory that Mrs. Day had stolen the
baby for the purposeS of blackmailing
Ernest Leighton an official of the Nor
thern Pacific railway with offices in
Seattle. The "baby's mother is said
to have told the Berkeley police that
Mrs. Day used borrowed baby for
similar purpose while living in Ell
PasO several years ago. Z
Arrested In December.
Mrs. Lulu Day was arrested in this
city about the middle of December for
the alleged theft of $500 in jewelry
and cut-glass, but not for the kidnap-
ping of the child.
I'll go back II they come for me-"
she told an officer. ''I'll stand trial,
too, and when I'm acquitted I'll bring
suit for persecution. don't know
anything about Mrs. Schneider's
baby"