New-York tribune., 1918-02-04
Kidnapped Girl
Found and Woman
Held by Police
Continued from pago 1

she vanished and whose coat also was
rev leaped into the arms that. Mrs.
Rosncr stretched out. The new clothes
had not caused the mother to hesitate
nor had her mothers somewhat dis
hevellcd appearance blinded the child's
instinct.
Just what the pair had to say to each
other in that first blissful moment none
OF the group in the Office overheard, for
the yellow hair and the dark hair COM
mingled and the words that were for
their ears alone were whispered directly
into them. Throughout the rest of the
proceedings Lillian was enscouced in
her mothers lap, clutching her with
desperate arms.
The first hint of the hiding place
to which Lillian had been taken was
brought to her parents home about
) O'Clock yesterday afternoon by Mary
Fay, who lives in the Bergen Street
boarding house. She told her story to
Sergeant James Gcgan, who, with Ser
geant James Thompson, has made the
house at SO Lenox Avenue his head
quarters for days, whence nearly two
score detectives were dispatched hither
and yon on the will o. the wisp clews
that were continually bobbing up.
Child Cried at Night
Miss Fay said that on Tuesday wom-
an brought a child to the boarding
house. She was a little girl with yell
her tendcrly and had bought new
clothes for her, nevertheless the child
could be heard crying at night through
the thin walls that separated the rooms
of the boarding house.
II want Ettic; | want Silvie; I want
Jake" was the burden of the child's
plant, the young woman said. Ser
geant Gegan pricked up his cars.
Tuesday was the day Lillian had dis
appeared. Lillian had yellow hair.
Lillian had sister Ethel, a sister Sill
vie and brother Jake.
With Miss Fay, I.ilian's father. Sam
uel and two or three detectives Ser
geant Gegan jumped into an automo-
bile that skinned the speed limit to
Bergen Street, Brooklyn, hating a
block away from the boarding house, in
order that no kidnapper might be
frightened by its approach. 1t vas al
most o'clock before it arrived there
such precautions had the police taken
that there was no flaw in the young
woman's stroy and that no hint of it
or their purpose should leak out.
Father Discovers Lillian
Mrs. Berg was washing some of Lii
lian's clothes. Lillian was playine on
the floor. AS her father entered she
looked up
"Papa!" she said, and Mr.. Rosncr
clasped her IN his arms. Mrs. BERG
went stolidly on with her washing. not
needing the pcremptory intcrruption
without resistance she accompanied
the detectives and the father and child
to headquarters, while diplomatic
messenger was sent to So LenoY Ave
nue..
Mrs. Berg at first implicated re,a-
tive by marriage, saying that he had
given her $50 to kidnap the child.
That sum was found in her pockctbook
but a handbook also was found show
ing a withdrawal of 5000 at about the
time Lillian was Kidnapped. Then the
prisoner admitted that her relative had
inspired her only indirectly.
She said that she had worked in his
shop, at starvation wages. and had
finally been discharged because she de-
chned to submit to conditions which he
imposed. When she was discharged,
she asserted, there was S2l owing TO
her which he refused to pay. Often.
she said. she had begged him TO pay
her, as she was i'll and almost without
resources, but he refused
n week ago Saturday, she said. shc
was walking on Lenox Avenue. brood.
ing over her wrongs. when she dropped
her .pocketbook. A woman who was
passing picked it up and gave It to her.
and they fell into conversation. This
woman, Mrs. Berg said, was most sym-
pathetic, and told her that if she
wanted revenge on the man who had
discharged her she should steal child
and tben put the blame on him.
According to Mrs. Berg, the woman
told her that she represented a found
lings' home, or something of that sort
and would sec that Mrs. Rcrc had
enough money to care for the child
The police have been told By relatives
of Mrs. Berg that she had passion
for children, and though She had had
two of her own. had lost them both by
! death. At any rate, Mrs. Berg made
an appointments she said to meet her
new friend at LenoX Avenue and Hath
Street on the follown. Tuesday.
Lillian Succumbs to Candy
The meeting took place, Mrs. Berg